Environment Agency | Five men convicted of offences in connection with an illegal waste site at Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, have had confiscation orders totalling £74,751.16.
A Proceeds of Crime Award hearing led by the Environment Agency was concluded at Nottingham Crown Court.
Waste broker and dealer Robert Malone was fined £1,165.00 and received a confiscation order of £45,948.
Daniel Lippitt, an operator who deposited waste at the site, received a confiscation order of £10,000.
Luke Woodward and Sonial Surpal, lorry drivers who deposited waste at the site, received confiscation orders of £1,111.61 and £16,511.55 respectively.
Site operative Nathan Jones received a confiscation order of £1,180.
A total of 12 people were found guilty in 2024 of waste crime charges relating to a site at Fen Lane, Long Bennington. Lorry-loads of shredded waste were regularly burnt on land close to people’s homes. Seven defendants received custodial sentences and four received suspended sentences, while at the hearing the remaining defendant was also fined.
In addition, in August 2025 transport company Fletcher Plant Limited were sentenced after being found guilty of failing their duty of care to establish that the site they delivered waste to was operating legally.
As the company received a confiscation order of £37,587.13, the overall Proceeds of Crime total secured by the Environment Agency now stands at £112,338.29. There is still more to come from key players in the case.
The Environment Agency will now bring a Proceeds of Crime Award hearing against the main offenders, family of three Paul, Judith, and Joshua Canner, who ran the illegal waste site. This hearing will also include landowners Marc Greenfield,46, of Fosse Road, Brough and James Baggaley, 39, of Back Lane, Foston who have been ordered to remove the remaining waste from the site.
