Woman fined after dumping fridge in country lane

The fridge was found alongside other rubbish in a country lane in October last year, a council said

A woman has been fined after dumped waste - including a fridge - was found in a country lane.

The fly-tip was discovered in Ambion Lane in Sutton Cheney, near Hinckley in Leicestershire, where a fridge, household waste and food scraps, internal doors, a builders bag containing rubble and cannabis plants had been dumped in a gateway.

Evidence found among the waste linked it to 30-year-old Jade Kavanagh, the Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council said.

On Wednesday 23 October Kavanagh, of Beryl Avenue in Hinckley, pleaded guilty to dumping the fridge and two bin bags.

A fixed penalty notice was issued but not paid over the fly-tip

She had been previously been issued with a £400 fixed penalty notice by the council which she had failed to pay, said the local authority.

But at Leicester Magistrates’ Court, she was ordered to pay a £334 fine and a £134 victim surcharge, leaving her £468 out of pocket.

Speaking after the case, councillor Lynda Hodgkins thanked the team behind the prosecution for their work and said she hoped it would “make people think twice before illegally dumping their waste”.

The council said as of April, its fixed penalty notice for fly-tipping doubled to £800.