Man rang police demanding they return his van used for fly tipping

A man demanded that police return his van which was caught being used for fly-tipping at a beauty spot.

Sean Fagan, of Whitney Road in Woolton, pleaded guilty to fly-tipping at Chester Magistrates’ Court on July 27 this year. It was heard that the 29-year-old had lent his van out to a friend, who did the fly tipping.

As Fagan was the registered keeper of the vehicle, under the law he is treated as knowingly causing the waste to be deposited, even if he knew nothing about it. In 2020, officers from the rural crime team were first called to reports of fly-tipping on Frodsham marshes in Cheshire.