Fly-tippers charged up to £100... then dumped ● Conor Greenwood, top, and Paul Parry waste at have both been jailed for 40 weeks beauty spots
TWO serial fly-tippers accused of dumping household items across a wide area of rural North Wales have both been jailed for 40 weeks.
Conor Greenwood and Paul Parry were also banned from driving for 16 months and forfeiture of a van was ordered.
Greenwood, 23, pleaded guilty to six offences of unlawfully depositing waste and six matters were considered. Parry, 26, admitted five similar allegations and another five were taken into consideration.
Llandudno magistrates heard the fly-tipping took place from May to October last year, and district judge Gwyn Jones told the pair that rural lanes shouldn’t have fridges and household waste in them.
“By targeting rural areas you hoped you wouldn’t be caught out,” the judge said. “You were deliberately undercutting others by charging less.”
Gwyndaf Pari, prosecuting for Natural Resources Wales, said there had been a probe involving the police and Conwy, Denbighshire and Gwynedd councils.
“This is a deliberate, flagrant act as far as disregarding the law is concerned,” said Mr Pari.
The lawyer said rubbish clearance had been advertised on Facebook, by word of mouth and, once, by cold calling, and the pair charged up to £100 for taking the waste away.
Waste from a house clearance was left on North Wales Wildlife Trust land near Llyn Brenig in May last year, and they returned there in August.
Another offence was on a bridlepath near a McDonald’s at Abergele, with a fridge and mattress among the items dumped.
At Prion, Denbigh, a “transitsized” load was fly-tipped, while a washing machine was among items strewn over 500 metres at Llansannan, near Abergele.
Waste was also dumped at Bryn y Maen near Colwyn Bay, at St George, Abergele, and in Bangor.
Mr Pari said investigation costs of £4,700 were sought, and the court heard the clear-up bill on one occasion amounted to £200.
Defence solicitor Graham Parry said Greenwood, formerly of Prestatyn, was behaving “very stupidly” at the time and had been involved with drugs.
In January he had been sent to prison for six months and had since moved to live with his father in Plymouth, gone to college and worked as a fisherman.
David Jones, defending Parry, of Berth y Glyd, Old Colwyn, said his client had financial difficulties at the time.