{"id":85425,"date":"2017-10-17T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T10:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d0cca68232532a9032bda3018da24712"},"modified":"2017-10-17T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T10:51:42","slug":"press-release-waste-criminal-pays-up-after-proceeds-of-crime-confiscation-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85425","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Waste criminal pays up after Proceeds of Crime confiscation order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A man who ran an illegal waste site for 15 months has been forced to sell his home to pay towards the clean-up of land off the A38 at Eggington near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire.<\/p>\n<p>The Environment Agency took confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 against Robert Murphy, 49, of Carver Road, Burton-on-Trent.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a hearing in May 2015 at Stafford Crown Court when he was sentenced to 7 months imprisonment for operating a site he did not own or have an environmental permit for.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his sentence, a Confiscation Order was made, requiring him to pay compensation of \u00a320,793 to the landowner. The Environment Agency were also awarded prosecution costs of \u00a310,000. Murphy failed to make any payments.<\/p>\n<p>He has since served an additional 12 month default sentence for his failure to comply with the Confiscation Order.<\/p>\n<p>It was necessary for the Environment Agency to enforce compliance with the Order to recover compensation for the landowner who is faced with the costs of site clearance.<\/p>\n<p>This required attendance at further enforcement hearings at Birmingham Magistrates Court. The Confiscation Order and order for costs has now been settled in full.<\/p>\n<p>Between 3 January 2013 and 28 June 2014, Murphy used the land which belonged to a vulnerable and elderly couple to deposit, store and burn large quantities of mixed waste including metal, wood, electrical items and construction and demolition waste.<\/p>\n<p>An Environment Agency officer involved in the case said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This has been a long and involved case but it demonstrates that the Environment Agency is determined to tackle waste crime.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this case serves as a message to those involved that we won\u2019t stop the fight against this blight, and that it acts as a deterrent against those who undermine legitimate businesses within the industry.<\/p>\n<p>This is a serious issue diverting as much as \u00a31 billion per annum from legitimate business and treasury. Since April 2011 the Environment Agency has invested \u00a365.2 million in tackling it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We urge any landowners, farmers, members of the public who find these sites to call us immediately on our 24-hour free incident hotline number 0800 80 70 60 or make an anonymous report to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man refused to pay court ordered costs, went back to prison and then when he refused again lost his house after Proceeds of Crime order was enforced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}