Waste row jail threat
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• A waste-disposal boss who is accused of dumping rubbish on a haulage contractor's site could face a six-month jail-term on return from Jamaica.
A high court judge has taken steps to have Jeffrey Litwin arrested for his "flagrant breach" of a court order, when he arrives at Heathrow. If Litwin cannot give a good reason why he did not show up in court last Friday he could be jailed for six months.
Mr Justice McKinnon said of the court-shy businessman: "He doesn't give a damn." Issuing an arrest warrant, McKinnon accepted that Litwin — of Bincote Road, Enfield, Middlesex — might not be jailed, depending on what excuses are offered, but he warned: "If he came before me and didn't have a very good explanation for his flagrant breach, he would find himself going down for six months."
The Central Electricity Generating Board applied for both Litwin and haulage operator Lorenz Kahl to be jailed for contempt of court, but the judge believed that Kahl, of Main Road, Hawkwell, Essex, was "an innocent".
Kahl ran his haulage firm, Trackoption of High Street, Billericay, Essex, on land belonging to the CEGB. Earlier this year he rented out part of the site for Litwin to deposit waste, en route to a permanent dumping ground. The Electricity Board obtained a court order on 25 August banning the use of its land as a staging-post in the wastedisposal operation.
In spite of this, lorries with full skips of rubbish were seen arriving at the site on six occasions between 31 August and 27 September. In court, Kahl claimed he tried in vain to stop Litwin's firm — Docldands Waste Disposal — from bringing his truck on to the land.