Fly-tipper gets her comeuppance after being caught dumping rubbish on Manchester street

A fly tipper who was caught red-handed dumping rubbish down a Manchester street has been fined for her act.

Twenty-seven-year-old Keighley Whyte, of Tartan Street, Clayton, was caught on council CCTV driving down New Viaduct Street next to the Etihad stadium on June 11th, 2020.

The footage shows the car parking up, with two females getting out and dumping the rubbish onto the side of the road before driving away.

Manchester City Council

Waste management company Biffa, who was working on behalf of Manchester City Council, visited the site the next day and was able to link evidence from the dumped rubbish back to Whyte.

Further investigation then showed that the Fiat Punto used to fly-tip the rubbish was registered to Whyte.

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However, Whyte failed to attend an initial court hearing for the offence, which resulted in a warrant being issued leading to her arrest. And last Friday, March 4th, Whyte pleaded guilty to fly-tipping at a hearing at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court.

She has since been ordered to pay a fine of £614 for the offence.

Manchester City Council

Manchester City Council’s executive member for Neighbourhoods, councillor Rabnawaz Akbar, slammed the fly tipping as an ‘unnecessary cost to the council’ and a ‘blight to the environment’, saying: “This is an environmental crime that doesn’t make sense on any level.

“Not only is it an unnecessary cost to the council, and hence the taxpayer, it was an expensive way for this woman to get rid of rubbish when she could have taken it for free to a local tip.

“Once again, we want to send a message to anyone who thinks they can get away with blighting our environment, we will not tolerate fly-tipping in the city, and we will continue to bring prosecutions to court to show that this behaviour is not acceptable in our city.”