Posted on: Friday 7 November 2025
A man who continued to commit fly-tipping offences despite being subject to a criminal behaviour order has been jailed for 15 months.
Stewart Evans, from Caerleon, Newport, was handed a 10-year criminal behaviour order and a suspended prison sentence earlier this year, following a string of fly-tipping offences in Torfaen, Newport and Monmouthshire.
The conditions of the order prohibited Evans from removing any waste from the home of any individual, including garden materials.
The order also prohibited him from advertising to remove waste from the home of any individual with a view to receiving payment, in any media format.
However, in a flagrant breach of the order, and despite having a suspended sentence, Evans continued to do both of these, illegally dumping the waste he had collected.
Following an investigation by the Newport Council’s waste enforcement team, Evans was arrested once again and remanded in custody ahead of a trial.
At Newport Crown Court this week, Evans pleaded guilty to three fly-tipping offences and sentenced to 15 months in prison.
Evans had previously pleaded guilty to twelve counts of fly-tipping between January 2023 and May 2024.
Newport City Council led a joint operation along with Torfaen Council and Monmouthshire County Council into Evans’s offences, which included:
- Dumping large amounts of household waste at locations in New Inn, Abersychan, Pwll Ddu Mountain, and Ringland Shopping Centre.
- Dumping household waste and fridge freezers in Wentwood forest
- Dumping waste in Brangwyn Crescent, Newport
- Dumping waste in a commercial waste bin in Caerleon.
It was these offences which led Evans to be handed the criminal behaviour order and suspended sentence earlier this year.
Evans was also previously convicted of fly-tipping offences in 2022, after which he lost his waste carriers licence.
Commenting on the sentencing, Cllr Mandy Owen, Executive Member for the Environment, said: “I’m delighted with the custodial sentence handed to Stewart Evans. This is a fantastic result and sends a message to people who fly-tip that we will investigate and there will be consequences.
“Fly-tipping has a significant impact on our communities and it is not acceptable. I’d like to thank our staff and colleagues in Newport and Monmouthsire for their diligence.”
You can report fly-tipping via the council’s website or the MyTorfaen app.