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BBC News
31-07-2025
- BBC News
Waste-handler in court over Bradford cemetery fly-tipping
"Major errors" by a licensed waste-handler led to a huge pile of rubbish being dumped in a Bradford cemetery, a court has Khan, 38, appeared at Bradford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, where he admitted responsibility for fly-tipping at Scholemoor Cemetery last of Hartman Place, also admitted to another act of fly-tipping on Munby Street some six weeks is due to be sentenced on 21 August at Bradford Crown Court. According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Khan denied being the person who dumped the waste, claiming he had lent his vehicle to a colleague who fly-tipped the rubbish without his Raja, prosecuting on behalf of Bradford Council, told the court Environmental Enforcement officers had been called to a report of fly-tipping on 6 showed a Ford transit dumping a "substantial amount" of waste, including general litter, building materials and garden waste, on Munby Street, off Thornton Road, at 06:28 Raja said waste had subsequently been dumped at Scholemoor Cemetery on 16 September, with the same vehicle was found to have been enforcement team searched through the waste and found the address of a woman, who they went on to Raja said: "She informed officers that she had paid Imran Khan to dispose of the waste."She said Khan had shown her documentation to prove he was a licensed waste-carrier."It just so happens the vehicle was later involved in an unrelated road traffic stop, on 4 November," Mr Raja explained."Police carried out checks, and the keeper was found to be Khan." 'Disrespectful act' The defendant argued that, although he had received payment to remove the waste and the vehicle was his, he did not dump the rubbish."We can't disprove that, but the council argues that he failed to take measures to ensure the correct transfer of waste," said Mr added: "Allowing someone else to deposit the waste in the cemetery is, in my submission, just as bad as if he did it himself."The prosecutor said Khan had "flagrantly disregarded the law", calling the dumping of waste in a cemetery a "disrespectful act".Mr Arshad, defending Khan, said he had been operating as a legitimate waste-carrier, with the relevant licence in place."The reality is there were major errors by him relating to how he conducted aspects of his business," he said."Through his guilty pleas, he acknowledges his wrongdoing."He has expressed great remorse for what he has allowed to happen through his own actions and inactions." Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
25-07-2025
- BBC News
Bradford woman fined for noise nuisance
A woman who "drove her neighbour up the wall" by playing music through the night has been ordered to pay more than £1, Magistrates' Court heard how Ibolya Tamas's neighbour would have to put up with amplified music being played repeatedly, sometimes until 06: actions breached an earlier abatement notice by the council, designed to stop the problem for neighbours in the Undercliffe Lane failed to attend the court hearing but was found guilty and ordered to pay £1,762 in court costs and fines. Waseem Raja, prosecuting the case on behalf of Bradford Council, said 44-year-old Tamas was handed a noise abatement notice in October 2024. According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, it banned her from the "playing of loud amplified music at the said property at such levels as to cause a statutory nuisance at another property that was within the vicinity of your property".Despite the order, the loud music continued. 'Nuisance' The court was told that her neighbour had been given an app that could be used to record noise several days in February 2025, the app logged music being played at unsociable Raja said: "This gives you a flavour of the nuisance. It must have been driving her neighbour up the wall."It is bad enough to hear music at that time, but we are talking about loud, amplified music."He said the neighbour's sleep was constantly disrupted by the music, and the issue had impacted almost every aspect of his to the fact that Tamas had not attended court, he said: "She isn't even here today, so we can discuss the issue with her."The council decided to prosecute Tamas for failing to comply with an abatement notice, and various items capable of playing loud music, including multiple televisions, amplifiers and a keyboard, were seized from the Raja said the case followed a "prolonged investigation" by the local authority, which had cost the taxpayer at least £1, some deliberation, magistrates fined Tamas £220, ordered her to pay an £88 surcharge and awarded the full £1,354 costs to the council at Wednesday's hearing. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
