The latest smoking litter enforcement operation has ended with 10 people being caught littering in the city centre. All ten received fixed penalty notices of £75 and 8 of these were paid.
The remaining two cases were successfully prosecuted in court. Jacqueline Kinsella was issued a fixed penalty notice (fpn) for dropping a cigarette end. She failed to pay the £75 fpn and was successfully prosecuted for littering. She had to pay a £275 fine.
Roxanne Woodward was also issued a fixed penalty notice for cigarette ending littering on the same smoking litter operation. She failed to pay her fpn and also failed to attend court and was prosecuted in her absence. She too had to pay £275
Deputy Leader and Executive Member for Housing, Communities and Social Justice said, “All citizens have a duty to dispose of cigarette butts in a responsible manner. Littering of this nature impacts on our everyday environment and cannot be tolerated. There are a number of suitable cigarette butt receptacles for people to use in the City Centre and there is really no excuse for tossing any kind of rubbish on the floor. Cardiff Council works extremely hard to ensure our streets are as clean as possible and the vast majority of people help us in this goal.”
