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April 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Carl Steele released after serving just a third of his 15 month jail sentence
- Given six months to pay tiny fine, despite amassing huge fortune
By
Ian Garland
06:26 EST, 11 April 2012
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22:13 EST, 11 April 2012
Early release: Carle Steele served just 18 weeks in jail
A fly-tipper who illegally dumped more than a million used tyres – earning £2.5million in the process – has been told by a court to pay back just £122.
The derisory sum was said to be the only ‘available asset’ left in a bank account linked to Carl Steele’s now defunct company, FCM Logistics (Tyres).
Steele, 34, had left a ‘trail of destruction’ on the countryside by renting land and blighting it by storing hundreds of thousands of tyres without permission.
He made his fortune through
undercutting business rivals who would have had to pay a charge of 80p
per tyre to use official waste sites.
When the 34-year-old was caught and jailed for 15 months in November, environmental campaigners celebrated.
But their joy was short-lived when
last month the businessman – dubbed the Million Tyre Man – was released
less than a third of the way into his sentence.
Now they have been further angered by the proceeds-of-crime hearing.
Steele was even given six months to pay the £122 by Lincoln Crown Court.
He refused to comment when he left the
hearing, but a friend said afterwards: ‘He’s happy and relieved. It is a
bit of a result but he’s served his time and hasn’t got any money to
give them. What else do they want?’
Landscape blighted: Steele dumped more than a million tyres
Victims, however, were shocked by what they saw as soft justice.
Peter Steward, a member of Crouch
Conservation Trust, which retrieved fly-tipped tyres from the River
Crouch in Essex, criticised the ruling.
‘It’s absolutely ridiculous they can only get such a small amount of money back.
‘They need to investigate it further
to find out where all the money has gone. Dumping tyres, whether it’s in
a river or on land, causes major pollution.’
Steele lives in a four-bedroom
farmhouse on a sprawling rural site in Deeping St Nicholas,
Lincolnshire, where his parents also reside. He is understood to drive a
white van.
Between October 2009 and January 2010
he hired land in five counties – Essex, Norfolk, Yorkshire,
Worcestershire and Lincolnshire – and used the spots to store the tyres.
One site at Full Sutton Airfield,
Yorkshire, where more than 125,000 were left, drains into a tributary of
the River Derwent, which is a source of drinking water. Despite
warnings from the Environment Agency on 20 occasions, Steele failed to
register the operation. When legal action began against him he simply
rented new sites.
Environment Agency officials found
3,000 tyres at the Lincolnshire site and said the number grew to 400,000
as their investigations continued. Four other sites, with a further
800,000 tyres, were found later.
Landowners have been left a bill of £260,000 to clear the mess.
Steele admitted six charges relating
to the illegal storage and treatment of waste and was jailed at Lincoln
Crown Court on November 7. His business had a turnover of £2,540,768.
The judge at Lincoln Crown Court could only order Carl Steele to hand over £122
Judge Sean Morris said at the time:
‘You have left a trail of destruction for other people to pick up. I am
quite satisfied that your motive was the long-term prospect of making
big money.’
Steele was set free on March 15 on licence under the early release programme.
The Environment Agency refused to
speculate yesterday as to whether Steele had moved his proceeds abroad.
But it insisted it had a confiscation order for £2.5million, which would
apply to any future money he came into.
A spokesman said: ‘Having proven his
guilt, we took him to court again to take away his illegal profits. The
£2.5million confiscation order can be revisited in the future.’
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Surely he has some assets of value? Go to his house while he’s in jail and strip it of everything of value that can be re-sold for as near to £2.5 million as you can get. See how clever he is when he comes back to an empty house. Why can’t we punish criminals nowadays?
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So 15 months in prison and a £122 fine for illegally making £2.5million, no wonder people turn to crime these days with unemployment at an all time low and tax going up.
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I hear those flushing sounds as Britain goes further down the drain!
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The choice is yours, make an honest living and get taxed to death or make a dishonest living and keep it all.
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think i’m going to quit my job and work in the tyre disposal industry instead..
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crime really does pay in the UK . Do you really think he is reformed or perhaps going to start dumping tyres again for a million pounds a year . This country has lost the plot completely thanks to 13 years of Labour .
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People expected more from the UK justice system ?
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If this were you or I, we should be fined £122 for each and every tire … I smell a rat!
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am in the wrong job should have been a tyre dumper
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cant they appeal this stupid descision
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