Hauled into court over a cardboard box
The following tale is as classic a Big Brother Watch story as you are likely to find; as The Sun reports:
A grandmother was dragged to court – after carefully leaving a cardboard box next to a council recycling bin.
Lynne had taken the box which held her new washing machine to the recycling point at a Somerfield supermarket near her home in Wickford, Essex, in October.
It was too big to fit in the slot and the bin was nearly full. Lynne, 59, was filmed wedging it between two bins to stop it blowing away. Days later she got a card from Basildon Council asking her to call about "an incident".
An environmental officer later turned up at the fancy dress shop she runs and handed her a £300 fine. She threw it in a bin and ordered him out. On March 22 she received a letter charging her with "depositing controlled waste" and summoning her before JPs.
That's right people – just for putting a cardboard box in-between two bins which were too small to take the full box, Lynne Doyle was fined £300. Many would have been bullied by the council into paying up.
Luckily, Lynne did not…so she was ordered before a court. However on the advice of a lawyer she requested trial by jury. What do you think happened…?
She has now received a letter, without apology or explanation, saying the council was dropping the case.
So Lynne gets threatened with a fine and then trial; but when she pushes back the council retreats. It shouldn't end there – if you are outraged by this action by Basildon, the contact details for their refuse and recycling team are here. Why not ask them why they subjected a 59 year-old women to this ordeal?
By Dylan Sharpe
7 Comments
David Tudor
26th April 2010Better than complaining to the abusers to ask, Oliver style, why they are abusers, and can you pretty please leave us alone, why not join TPUC.org and fight to destroy the council system once and for all?
Andrew Evans
26th April 2010I would like to know how they found her address. Was it on the box or was some other instrument of the state use to identify her.
zorro
27th April 2010I suspect that they got her by her car registration plate entering and leaving the recycling tip…nice trap eh? So the council investigation unit probably got in touch with DVLA saying that they were investigating a ‘crime’…cue I fear our old friend the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
Yeah….it sounds like a RIPA job to me….In fact what’s the betting that they’ve got an authorisation on the whole environmental dump saying that it’s a ‘crime hotspot’….
Purlieu
28th April 2010they might call them environmental recycling centres but it’s still a tip to me
Helen
30th April 2010Just another case of government bodies forgetting they are public servants and not our masters.
What a waste of money! What a complete lack of common sense.
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