{"id":201051,"date":"2025-12-20T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201051\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:36:13","slug":"woman-convicted-of-dumping-after-couch-is-taken-from-limerick-home-and-thrown-on-bonfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201051\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman convicted of dumping after couch is taken from Limerick home and thrown on bonfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WOMAN who allowed two men to carry a leather couch from her home before throwing it onto a bonfire has been fined \u20ac750 after she was convicted of a dumping offence.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Ambrose, who has an address at Byrne Avenue,\u00a0Ballincaurra Weston, Limerick was prosecuted by Limerick City and County Council, arising from an incident on April 7, last.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ambrose was not present at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/463\/crime-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick District Court<\/a> when her case was heard by Judge Catherine Ryan who said she was satisfied to proceed in her absence.<\/p>\n<p>During the case, solicitor, Will Leahy, representing the local authority, presented CCTV evidence of the alleged incident to the court.<\/p>\n<p>In the footage, two people can be seen carrying the couch from the side of Ms Ambrose&#8217;s home along a public street to a green area in the estate. The footage then shows the two men throwing the couch onto a large fire which had already been started on the green area.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1969566\/i-must-have-been-stoned-off-my-head-limerick-man-steals-70k-bmw-and-parks-it-outside-his-home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;I must have been stoned off my head&#8217;: Limerick man steals \u20ac70k BMW and parks it outside his home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An environmental enforcement officer testified that the two individuals who carried the couch have not been identified but that he could confirm the couch did come from Ms Ambrose&#8217;s property.<\/p>\n<p>He said having viewed the CCTV footage following the incident, he made contact with the owner of the property who confirmed that Ms Ambrose was a tenant there.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Leahy said Ms Ambrose has no previous convictions and he asked the court to note that her refuse collection service has not been active due to lack of payment &#8220;for some time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having viewed the CCTV and having considered the evidence, Judge Ryan said she was satisfied to convict Ms Ambrose under section 32 (2) of the Waste Management Act.<\/p>\n<p>She imposed a\u00a0\u20ac750 fine and directed that she pay the costs of the local authority, which totalled\u00a0\u20ac541.50.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WOMAN who allowed two men to carry a leather couch from her home before throwing it onto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5721,61,60,1396,14563,43],"class_list":["post-201051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-district-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-limerick-city-and-county-council","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}