Peter Glenser KC, instructed by the Environment Agency, has successfully prosecuted in a sewage pollution case against Northumbrian Water.
The water company was fined more than half a million pounds after sewage effluent polluted a rural watercourse.
The company appeared at Durham Crown Court for sentence on Wednesday 6 October, after pleading guilty at a previous hearing on Monday (4 October) to discharging sewage effluent into the watercourse that runs through Heads Hope Dene near Castle Eden.
The court heard that on 22 May 2017, a blockage in a combined sewer caused sewage to pour out of a manhole cover and discharge into the watercourse that runs through Heads Hope Dene. They were fined £540,000 and ordered to pay costs of more than £142,000 and a £170 victim surcharge.
Peter is a specialist regulatory and criminal lawyer with a particular interest in environmental and wildlife crime. He has recently prosecuted a National Crime Agency case involving the unlawful export of eels with an eventual value of some £53M and defended numerous other wildlife related offences.
As a result of this case, Peter has been successfully appointed to the Government Legal Department’s KC list.
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