Bucks fly-tipper caught on camera dumping waste

Dean Stanley, 37, has been locked up for 21 months after he fly-tipped 17 times in the space of a year – picking up waste from people’s homes and discarding it in playgrounds, parks and laybys.

CCTV footage has now been released showing Stanley and an unnamed accomplice brazenly dumping a huge pile of waste at the side of a road.

The video shows Stanley pulling up in a red Ford transit van, backing up and then tipping out pallets, construction waste and more, before driving away.

Stanley was caught on camera before he dumped the waste

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After he was caught, Stanley admitted to fly-tipping in 17 locations between March 2019 and January 2020 – 16 of which were in Bucks or neighbouring Hillingdon.

Stanley would collect rubbish, including electrical items, furniture, kitchen units, doors, beds, mattresses and building waste from different residential and commercial sites and would dump it wherever he could, including along the A40 in Denham, Love Green Lane in Iver and in Little Missenden.

He would even opportunistically approach people where he saw building work taking place to offer to take the waste away for them.

The CCTV footage shows him dropping off a huge pile of rubbish

He would also dump waste that he had removed from homes where he was contracted to carry out building works himself.

Stanley would dump the mounds of rubbish in public spaces including parks, children’s playgrounds and grass verges by the road – but even tossed some waste outside people’s homes or in their driveways, with many people having to spend their own cash to get it cleared properly.

The offender was caught eventually though – and it ended up being quite simple for the authorities because he gave his own name, mobile phone number and bank details to those he took waste away from.

Buckinghamshire Council, Hillingdon Council and Sutton Council all worked together as part of a major investigation to bring a joint prosecution against Stanley and he was sentenced at Aylesbury Crown Court on Friday, February 25.

Peter Strachan, Buckinghamshire Council’s Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Environment, said he was “horrified” by the “vile and selfish nature” of Stanley’s crimes. He said: “Custodial sentences are not handed out lightly but the fact the judge sentenced in this way demonstrates the serious nature of the crime.

“This should be a warning to other fly-tippers that wherever and however you commit this abhorrent crime, we will identify and prosecute you."

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