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Hoads Wood: Three held over illegal dumping of waste in woodland (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Three men have been arrested as part of an investigation into the large-scale, illegal dumping of waste at woodland in Kent.

Two men, aged 44 and 62 and from the Isle of Sheppey, and a 41-year-old man from Sittingbourne, were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the dumping at Hoads Wood, near Ashford, the Environment Agency (EA) said.

A criminal investigation was launched in 2023 after 30,000 tonnes of household and construction waste, piled 15 feet high in places, was discovered dumped in a large part of the wood, which is designated a site of special scientific interest.

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[–] YungOnions 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Good, although I wonder how they caught them in the end?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Clearly I don’t know in this case, but in the (much, much smaller) cases that I have been involved in in the past, it was most often through documents recovered from among the waste itself - which had names and addresses on.

Althoguh, in this case, there were a great many truckloads dumped, so it may have been through tracing those vehicles perhaps.

[–] YungOnions 1 points 4 days ago

Makes sense, thanks