Men took waste and dumped it at fly-tip 'hotspot'

TWO men removed waste from a town's supermarket in a loaned van before illegally dumping it, a court has heard.

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The pair, from Port Talbot, have been made subject to Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBOs) and given suspended jail terms for repeat fly-tipping offences.

Michael Joseph Quilligan, 22, of Western Avenue, Sandfields, and Steven Gilheaney, 26, of Radnor House, Sandfields, were sentenced at Swansea Magistrates' Court on September 18, 2025.

The court was told that a large amount of waste was found dumped at an area in Sandfields, Port Talbot, known as the Old BP Site on September 1, 2023.

The waste contained paperwork, boxes and plastic strips and was found by a council waste enforcement team officer after a member of public reported it.

When investigated, it was found that both Quilligan and Gilheaney removed the waste from a Port Talbot supermarket and from an address in Swansea using a loaned van.