Fined for tipping in canal

A MAN who thought an easy way to get rid of an unwanted wooden cabinet by tipping it into the Leeds & Liverpool Canal had a shock when it cost him £255.

It was an Environment Agency Officer who noticed a car with its boot open on a canal bridge at Chorley, then two men removed a large cabinet, then swung it over the parapet into the water, Mick Fitzgibbons tells us.

Photographs

The officer took photographs of the object that was still floating in the canal and also noticed the registration number of the car, then contacted the police.

The result was that Anthony Marsden, 26, was fined £35 and ordered to pay costs of £200 and a victim surcharge of £20 by magistrates—a total of £255.

Admitted

Marsden admitted that he and a friend had thrown the cabinet into the canal, and was prosecuted.

There is a Don't Mess with Chorley campaign that is targetting fly tippers, in an attempt to lessen the £59,000 bill that the clearing-up costs. Should the two men have taken the cabinet to the local dump, it would have cost nothing.