A PROMINENT Dublin waste contractor has pleaded guilty to charges in relation to illegal dumping in Co Wicklow in the late 1990s on the third day of his trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Eanna Mulloy SC, prosecuting, told Judge Desmond Hogan that, following a day and a half of legal argument, Anthony Dean, owner of Dean Waste and associated company A1 Waste, could be arraigned on an amended charge.
He said that a nolle prosequi would be entered on the outstanding charge against him.
Dean, with an address at Woodhaven, Milltown, Dublin, pleaded guilty to undertaking the recovery of lorry-loads of waste at the landfill number four section of the 47-acre site of John O’Reilly’s land at Whitestown, Baltinglass, Co Wicklow.
This was done without him having been so authorised by licence between January 1st, 1998, and May 1st, 1998.
Dean will be sentenced today by Judge Hogan after facts have been heard in the case.
Mr Mulloy said a nolle prosequi would be entered on all charges against Dean’s two former employees, Laurence Creighton, Kill Village, Kill, Co Kildare, and Pat Fitzharris, The Rockery, Knocklyon, Dublin.
Judge Hogan discharged the jury of nine men and three women, and thanked the jurors for their time and attention.
Dean, Mr Creighton and Mr Fitzharris had all pleaded not guilty to disposing of lorry-loads of waste without a licence and in a manner likely to cause environmental pollution by creating a risk to the water, atmosphere, land, soil, plants or animals at the Wicklow site between January 1st, 1998, and May 1st, 1998.