Illegal Tyre Storage Penalties High for Yorkshire Man

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner has reported that an area man has been given an ultimatum by the courts; remove 5,500 illegally stored used tyres from his Honley dumping ground or go to prison. A crown court judge ordered Kyriacos Kyrianou to remove the tyres in April, having been fined £5,000 in November 2007 for storing up to 15,000 tyres on the same site. While Krianou defended himself, saying that previous fines and legal costs have left him unable to afford to remove all the tyres, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC was unwilling to cut him any slack yesterday at Bradford Crown Court, bluntly stating: “Get rid of the tyres and I will consider an alternative to sending you to prison. If you don’t remove the tyres you will back me into a corner. If they are gone, job done, if not you are taking the Mickey, to put it bluntly, and I will send you to prison.”