Sally Singh last month admitted that she left a black sack next to her wheelie bin, Mrs Singh said she was caught out because extra rubbish was routinely taken away by binmen at her former home, a few streets away, then two ‘rude and aggressive’ uniformed staff visited Sally Singh last month, ignoring her pleas to come back later because her son had been seriously ill all night, they handed her a £75 fine, threatening her with a court appearance and £2,500 penalty if she failed to pay, I always thought that councils were supposed to help residents of the borough?
she added: ‘my husband, a GP and I are both professionals, we haven’t got criminal records, we pay our taxes and are respectable people, they said if I didn’t pay the fine I would get a criminal conviction.’ the 34-year-old nurse said Chelmsford Borough Council also complained she had been putting her wheelie bin out too early for the weekly Friday rubbish collection, when she admitted she always put it out the night before, as she is busy getting her children ready for school on collection days, they told her to ‘follow the rules’ and put it out on the day, or risk prosecution, the couple have paid the fine, reduced to £50 as they did so quickly, because they feared a criminal conviction could affect their careers, the Singhs’s home was visited on February 25 following a complaint by another homeowner, a Chelmsford council spokesman said, OK so some one complained but surely a quiet word would have sufficed?
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