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Prolific waste dumper to pay £1.2m compensation
BBC ^ | 02 19 2026 | Christian Fuller

Posted on 02/25/2026 4:16:25 AM PST by yesthatjallen

A prolific waste criminal has been ordered to pay £1.2m in compensation for illegally dumping more than 4,000 tonnes of waste across England.

A nationwide investigation by the Environment Agency (EA) uncovered a network of 16 illegal dumping sites, including a manor house in Surrey, a farm in Cambridgeshire and a warehouse in Kent.

The total weight of the waste dumped was about 4,275 tonnes – roughly the weight of 600 African elephants.

Varun Datta, 36, was handed a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.

He must also pay £1.1m, reflecting the financial benefit from his crimes, plus £100,000 in compensation and £200,000 in prosecution costs.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: england; india; indians; pollution

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1 posted on 02/25/2026 4:16:25 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

yep, jolly olde englishman Varon Datta ( I bet he loves him some mushy peas and bangers and mash) he is a prolific dumper.

Import the turd world and you also get the mountains of garbage and the medieval diseases


2 posted on 02/25/2026 4:24:42 AM PST by MarlonRando
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To: yesthatjallen

Much more here, including the perp’s address...

https://www.lincolnshireworld.com/news/crime/prolific-waste-criminal-ordered-to-pay-more-than-ps14m-after-dumping-4000-plus-tonnes-of-rubbish-at-sites-across-england-including-one-near-boston-5608583

The street the perp lives on is in the bloody heart of Belgravia...

We’re talking very expensive.

And the perp got off with a slap in the wrist.


3 posted on 02/25/2026 4:30:15 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: yesthatjallen

All that and he didn’t even have to go to jail.


4 posted on 02/25/2026 4:39:26 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12; yesthatjallen
All that and he didn’t even have to go to jail.

It wasn't just him. He didn't drive the trucks.

The drivers knew that they were breaking the law.

You don't drive your garbage truck behind a manor house and think "Well, this is an interesting garbage dump. It is so nice that they planted a garden."

5 posted on 02/25/2026 4:52:30 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: yesthatjallen

He has a total of £1.4m to pay, but lives in a street with average house prices in the range £2.8-4.3m and values all the way up to £10m. Seems like he will keep a tidy (no pun intended) little profit.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he has to pay it back at only £5 a week. No wonder they call it FCUK.


6 posted on 02/25/2026 4:53:34 AM PST by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: yesthatjallen

There are so many Indians in the UK that they are now expressing weight in Elephants?

This reminds me of a comet a few years ago where the diameter was measured in giraffes.


7 posted on 02/25/2026 4:56:25 AM PST by Doctor Congo
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To: Pontiac

Very true, it was an organization conducting widespread destructive criminal activity, more than the owner and drivers would know what was being done.


8 posted on 02/25/2026 4:57:57 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Doctor Congo

How many unladen sparrows equal an elephant?


9 posted on 02/25/2026 5:03:54 AM PST by posterchild
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To: Doctor Congo
And why isn't it Indian elephants, since by his name he would be more familiar with that species?

Is it coincidental that the fine in British pounds per elephant is nearly the same as their weight? Can he just pay with elephants if he runs short of cash?

10 posted on 02/25/2026 5:09:27 AM PST by omni-scientist
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To: yesthatjallen

Asian Indians are accustomed to living in sewage and waste. Nearly all of India is filled with excrement called Dalits. Varun Datta is one of them.


11 posted on 02/25/2026 5:10:49 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: posterchild
How many unladen sparrows equal an elephant?

African or European?

12 posted on 02/25/2026 5:33:55 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: posterchild

I’m guessing that elephants were a better unit of measurement. Otherwise it would be a lot of ducks.


13 posted on 02/25/2026 5:39:45 AM PST by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: yesthatjallen

He’s probably in the building / renovation business. “Fly-tipping” has become a huge problem in Britain, and the worst offenders are construction crews and immigrants (with lots of crossover). They’ll just pull over and dump a load of waste or toss Hefty bags full of household waste out the car window. I saw the same thing with Hispanics in Chicago — they’ll drive down an alley and drop bags of kitchen waste and soiled diapers out the window. Is it any wonder rats are a huge problem?


14 posted on 02/25/2026 6:16:11 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: yesthatjallen

The prog agenda is aided by anything that make consumption of material goods a hardship. Disposing of waste adds to that hardship. By making waste disposal expensive by giving the gov and its unions and crony contracts control of it, it becomes expensive and subject to disintermediation by entrepreneurs who are not hamstrung by following the law. So waste removal follows the same dynamic as say drug dealing.


15 posted on 02/25/2026 6:30:23 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: yesthatjallen

Reminds me of the dumping that went on in Woburn, Mass. - the toxic chemicals got into the water supply causing high rates of cancers, especially among children.

“Woburn gained national attention in the 1980s due to groundwater contamination from industrial waste, including trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE), which were linked to a cluster of childhood leukemia cases.”

Chronicled in the excellent book: “A Civil Action.”


16 posted on 02/25/2026 7:48:33 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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