Cheap Skips, of Matlock, Derbyshire has been dubbed ‘Chav Skips’ after their company director was electronically tagged and handed a curfew by Derby Magistrates’ Court last month.
You might think that such punishments are the reserve of hardened criminals or a fashion accessory for ASBO-teenagers, but it seems that the skip hire industry is now subject to this chav-tastic jewellery too.
Cheap Skips’ director, Martin John Hudson, was found guilty of illegally keeping waste without a waste management license. His sentence also includes a five month prison stretch suspended for 12 months, 250 hours community service, £5,000 compensation to be paid to the Environment Agency and a £4,308.58 payment for prosecution costs.
On January 31, 2006, EA officers visited the Cheap Skips site at Ambergate Sawmills, Ripley Road, and found skips full of old doors, wood, plastic, concrete and other waste. Subsequent inspections found more skips on site containing waste as well as piles of demolition waste. On December 4, 2006, EA officers went to the Ambergate site, with police, to seize the company’s paperwork.
EA investigating officer Damien Ashby said: “Martin Hudson continued to operate Cheap Skips illegally, deceiving customers and undercutting legitimate businesses. This is not his first offence and the sentence imposed reflects this.”
Perhaps they were afraid that Mr Hudson might try to skip the country.
