TWO ASHTON men have been fined for dropping litter in the street.
Zaid Baksh, of Whiteacre Road, was punished to the tune of £851 for ‘throwing down, dropping or otherwise depositing litter’ at the junction of Meldon Road and Beresford Road in the Longsight area of Manchester on October 1.
And after Manchester City Council’s litter department brought a prosecution under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the 50-year-old was hit in the pocket to the tune of hundreds of pounds.
He was fined £660, ordered to pay £125 costs and a victim surcharge of £66.
Baksh was not the only man from Ashton to be fined for littering as Joshua Lees, of Elgin Street, was ordered to pay a total of £79.
The 33-year-old was found to have dropped a cigarette and left it on London Road in Manchester city centre on October 8.
He was fined £220 and ordered to pay costs of £125, as well as a victim surcharge of £34 at a hearing at Tameside Magistrates Court.