A BRADFORD man has been fined after waste from a city centre gym was dumped on a number of Bradford streets.

In August Mohammed Mobasher was found guilty of a fly-tipping charge relating to waste being dumped on Shay Lane, Mutton Lane and Long Lane.

At his sentencing last week he was fined £180 and ordered to pay costs of £500 to Bradford Council, as well as a £72 surcharge. 

At August’s hearing, Magistrates were told that on May 25, 2022, Bradford Council received reports of fly-tipping on the three roads.

When officers visited the site they found correspondence among the waste linking it to a gym on Westgate that had recently closed.

After viewing CCTV, officers noticed a white Ford transit on all three streets at the same time as the fly tipping.

Checking CCTV on Westgate, they saw the same white transit parked up, with a number of people loading waste into the back.

The vehicle was traced to an address on Weetwood Road, and officers attempted to contact the owner.

On November 4 they attended the house and seized the vehicle.

Soon after they were contacted by the vehicle’s owner, who said he had given Mobasher, 44 of Weetwood Road, the keys to the vehicle and £150, along with instructions to take the waste to Bowling Back Lane tip.

When Mobasher was interviewed he confirmed this, but said he then passed on the keys to the vehicle to another person, and instructed him to do what he had been asked to do.