Natalie Duffy ordered to pay £515 for fly-tipping
Date published: 30 July 2014
Natalie Duffy, of Farm Walk, Rochdale, has been given a 12-month conditional discharge and been ordered to pay £515 after pleading guilty at Bury and Rochdale Magistrates' Court after failing to dispose of her waste correctly.
Duffy, 37, appeared before the court on 15 July after a warrant was executed after she failed to appear previously.
She was charged with failing to take all reasonable steps on the transfer of her waste, commonly known as an occupier’s duty of care, but the court accepted her account that she had paid someone to move some of the waste from her yard and that she did not realise that such a person must be authorised. The waste was found fly-tipped on land off Albert Royds Street in Rochdale.
She was given a 12 month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £500 towards costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
In her defence, Duffy said: "I didn't put them there, I paid someone to move them and they dumped them."
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