Rubbish dumpers threw stones after complaint
‘HOSTILE’ fly-tippers threw stones at a resident’s window when he confronted them about dumping waste in an alleyway.
Ilie Costel Baltatu was directing a gang of men as they dumped waste from two vehicles in a ginnel behind Oxney Road in Rusholme.
A resident approached them and told them their actions were illegal at which point the group ‘immediately became hostile’, according to Manchester council .
Baltatu, 48, then approached the neighbour, put an arm around him and told him ‘not to worry’.
When the witness returned to his property and took photographs of the crime in action, Baltatu and the gang of men threw stones at his windows.
Baltatu must now carry out a 12-month community order and 200 hours of unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay £500 court costs and an £85 victim surcharge.
Just three months after the Oxney Road fly-tipping, Baltatu, of Glencastle Road, Gorton, was again witnessed by a local resident instructing and assisting a group of men as they fly-tipped waste.
This time the group unloaded waste from the back of a black Mercedes van and dumped it on an alley to the rear of Fleeson Street.
HARPURHEY, Gorton and Levenshulme are the areas of Manchester with the most requests for fly-tipping removal, according to recentlyreleased data.
Statistics, released as part of a Waste Recycling and Street Cleansing Update by Manchester council, show that between September 2018 and August 2019, waste contractors received 27,940 requests to remove fly-tipping from areas across Manchester.
There were 2,565 requests made in Harpurhey – the highest number of requests from a single ward.
Gorton had the second-highest with 1,976 requests, while Levenshulme had 1,836 requests.
In Manchester, waste company Biffa is responsible for responding to flytipping reports and is required to remove non-hazardous waste within five working days.
Biffa is also able to search through dumped rubbish to find evidence to link incidents together.
Levenshulme councillor Bernard