THE COUNCIL WORKER ‘AT THE CENTRE’ OF A 20 MAN RUB

THE COUNCIL WORKER ‘AT THE CENTRE’ OF A 20 MAN RUBBISH TIP

SWINDLE WHICH COST LONDON RATEPAYERS THOUSANDS OF POUNDS WAS JAILED

FOR 21 MONTHS ON MONDAY.

FIVE OTHER MEN ALSO RECEIVED JAIL SENTENCES TOTALLING 60

MONTHS WHILE OTHERS WERE ORDERED TO PAY A TOTAL OF #7,500 IN FINES.

THE FRAUD INVOLVED BRIBES PAID BY SKIP OPERATORS TO COUNCIL

WORKERS ON THE WEIGHBRIDGE AT THE GLC’S TWYFORD TIP IN PARK ROYAL IN

NORTH LONDON.

THE WEIGHBRIDGE WORKERS SHOULD HAVE CHARGED OPERATORS #19.

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A TONNE TO DUMP RUBBISH BUT IN RETURN FOR BRIBES THEY UNDERWEIGHED

THE LORRIES.

SENTENCING THEM JUDGE JAMES MORTON AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE CROWN

COURT DESCRIBED THE CON AS A ‘DISHONEST CANKER WHICH FOR LONG

INFECTED THE WEIGHBRIDGE STATION AT A GREAT COST TO THE RATEPAYER’.

HE SAID THAT IT HAD PROVED INMPOSSIBLE TO DECIDE IF THE

STAFF AT THE PLANT HAD PERSUADED DRIVERS TO PARTICIPATE OR IF IT HAD

BEEN THE OTHER WAY ROUND.

‘THE PLAIN FACT IS THAT CORRUPTION WAS THE ORDER OF THE DAY.

OVER THE YEARS A GREAT NUMBER OF TRADE VEHICLES OFF LOADED WASTE AT

THE STATION – THE DISHONESTY WAS A GENERAL IF NOT UNIVERSAL

PRACTICE.

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EARLIER DETECTIVE SERGEANT MARTIN HAWKINS, IN CHARGE OF THE

‘CAMOUFLAGED’ POLICE SURVEILLANCE TEAM THAT SMASHED THE SWINDLE IN

OCTOBER 1984, TOLD THE COURT THAT POLICE ESTIMATE THE RACKET HAD BEEN

GOING ON FOR ‘MORE THAN FIVE YEARS’ AND COULD HAVE COST THE GLC MORE

THAN #1 MILLION.

MF

CENTRAL/RUBBISH.

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MR GILES FORRESTER, PROSECUTING, SAID AFTER UNDERWEIGHING

RUBBISH LORRIES THE TIP WORKERS FALSIFIED THE RECORDS BY OVERWEIGHING

COUNCIL LORRIES TO MAKE THE BOOKS BALANCE.

HE SAID THE FRAUD RAN FOR 20 MONTHS AND COST THE GLC

#88,000.

BUT HE ADDED THAT THIS WAS A ‘CONSERVATIVE FIGURE’.

THE COUNCIL WORKERS ALL PLEADED GUILTY TO CONSPIRING TO

ACCEPT BRIBES BETWEEN JANUARY 1983 AND DECEMBER 1984.

THEY ARE: TIP SUPERVISOR RICHARD GALLAGHER, 46, OF CANNING

ROAD, WEALDSTONE, MIDDLESEX, WHO WAS JAILED FOR 21 MONTHS.

NICHOLAS

COWARD, 29, OF STAG LANE, KINGSBURY, WAS JAILED FOR 18 MONTHS.

GARY

TANN, 28, OF VICARAGE FARM ROAD, HOUNSLOW, WHO WAS SENTENCED TO 120

HOURS COMUNITY SERVICE.

BRAMDEO JOKON, 60, OF HANWORTH ROAD, HAMPTON,

WHO WAS SENTENCED TO 18 MONTHS JAIL SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS AND FINED

#1000.

WALTER ROSE, 30, OF HINCROFT CRESCENT, SOUTH RUISLIP WHO WAS

SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS.

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THE SKIP OPERATORS WERE FOUND GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO PAY

BRIBES BETWEEN JANUARY 1983 AND OCTOBER 1984.

THEY ARE: RALPH REEDER, 65, WHO WAS SENTENCED TO 18

MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS AND ORDERED TO PAY #500 TOWARDS LEGAL

AID.

PHILIP REEDER, 29, SENTENCED TO 18 MONTHS TO RUN CONSECUTIVE

WITH AN EXISTING PRISON SENTENCE AND GEOFFREY REEDER, 35, WHO WAS

SENTENCED TO 12 MONTHS.

ALL ARE OF FARM AVENUE, WEMBLEY.

FREDERICK

DORKINGS, 64, OF COBBOLD ROAD, SHEPHERDS BUSH WAS SENTENCED TO 15

MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS AND ORDERED TO PAY #1,000 TOWARDS

LEGAL AID COSTS.

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CENTRAL/RUBBISH.

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THE OTHER SKIP OPERATORS ALL ADMITTED THE CHARGE.

THEY ARE: MAURICE ALLDAY, 41, OF PASTURE ROAD, WEMBLEY, WHO

WAS JAILED FOR 12 MONTHS.

JOHN SMITH, 47, WHO WAS GIVEN 18

MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS AND ORDERED TO PAY A #2,000 FINE AND

KENNETH SMITH, 44, WAS WAS SENTENCED TO 12 MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR

TWO YEARS AND FINED #500.

BOTH ARE OF DEANSCROFT AVENUE, KINGSBURY,

TERENCE SMITH, 39, OF LOCKITT ROAD, HARROW WEALD WAS SENTENCED TO 12

MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS AND FINED #500.

RICHARD LORD, 56,

OF ROWAN GARDEN ESTATE, HARLESDEN, WASS GIVEN SIX MONTHS SUSPENDED

FOR TWO YEARS.

EARLE WHITE, 26, WAS SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR

TWO YEARS AND KENNETH WHITE, 58, 15 MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS

AND A #500 FINE.

BOTH ARE OF DONCASTER DRIVE, NORTHOLT.

ANDREW

DORKINGS, 33, OF SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, NORWOOD GREEN, MIDDLESEX, WAS

SENTENCED TO 12 MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS.

IAN BOLDING, 46, OF

RANNAL DRIVE, CHINNOR, OXFORDSHIRE, WAS GIVEN A SIX MONTHS SUSPENDED

JAIL SENTENCE AND DONALD PRINCE, 52, OF GREENFIELD GARDENS,

GREENFORD, MIDDLESEX, 15 MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS AND A #1,000

FINE.

ANOTHER MAN, GEORGE FREDERICK PEGG WAS GIVEN 18 MONTHS

SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS AND A #2,000 FINE.

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