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Two men who made £1.2m from
dumping more than 14,000 tonnes of waste,
including asbestos, across London and Essex
have been jailed.
James Kelleher, 39, and Patrick Anderson,
51, were sentenced to 14 and 22 months
respectively for conspiracy to unlawfully
deposit controlled waste.
They carried out their illegal operations by
using false names, Inner London Crown Court
heard.
Kelleher is from Dagenham, east London, and
Anderson is from Ireland.
Both pleaded guilty to the conspiracy
charge.
'Blighting our environment'
The pair dumped 750 lorry loads of waste
from January 2003 to June 2004 at 15 sites on
both public and privately-owned lands.
Much of the £340,000 clean-up costs were
picked up by the taxpayer.
It was the first time that the Environment
Agency (EA), which led the investigation, had
used a European Arrest Warrant to bring back a
defendant from abroad to face charges. It was
used to bring Anderson back to face justice in
the UK after he left for Ireland.
It said the case highlighted how organised
criminals were increasingly "blighting our
environment" through the profitable crime of
fly-tipping industrial and construction
waste.
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