Company director sentenced after illegally hiding over 15,000 tons of waste: 'Undermines legitimate businesses'

Company director sentenced after illegally hiding over 15,000 tons of waste: 'Undermines legitimate businesses'

A director of a company in the UK has been sentenced to prison for storing 16,500 tons of illegal waste. According to the Mid-Devon Advertiser, Philip Liley was director of a company called Sweeper Hire and Hoses Limited when he leased land in Newton Abbott, a town in the southwestern part of the UK. Liley was caught trying to secretly hide tons of illegal waste there, which resulted in the pollution of a river. The man was prosecuted by the UK …