{"id":496994,"date":"2026-03-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496994\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:27:07","slug":"kent-campaigner-must-pay-southern-water-bill-after-sewage-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496994\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent campaigner must pay Southern Water bill after sewage protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking outside court on Thursday, Wassmer, 73, said: &#8220;We have to find another recourse to bring justice to water consumers in this country, and my absolute determination to do that has not been dulled by today&#8217;s experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A judge at Canterbury County Court ruled in South East Water&#8217;s favour after its lawyer argued it was &#8220;entitled to collect on behalf of Southern Water services&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">District Judge Peter Furness said he did not have the power to consider moral or environmental questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A bill was produced, it was levied and it hasn&#8217;t been paid. Whatever sympathies I may or may not have with your position I am obliged to act within the law, it&#8217;s as simple as that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking outside court on Thursday, Wassmer, 73, said: &#8220;We have to find another recourse to bring justice to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}