NHS trusts in England terminated contracts with HES over concerns about growing waste stockpiles.<\/p>\n
The Environment Agency launched a criminal investigation, while Scotland’s environmental regulator also took enforcement action.<\/p>\n
Pettigrew consistently denied wrongdoing. He said the problem stemmed from a shortage of incineration capacity across the UK rather than failures by his company.<\/p>\n
In 2023, after criminal proceedings against him were dropped, Pettigrew told BBC Scotland News HES had been made a “public scapegoat” and insisted the prosecution case had been “flawed from day one”.<\/p>\n
Those criminal proceedings, which related to allegations of illegally storing medical waste, including human body parts, were dropped following a review of the evidence.<\/p>\n
Pettigrew subsequently said he intended to pursue legal action and claimed the case had damaged his reputation.<\/p>\n
Evidence heard during that criminal case included claims that contractors clearing the Shotts facility found hundreds of tonnes of accumulated clinical waste, including anatomical material- including the carcass of a penguin which was believed to have come from Edinburgh Zoo.<\/p>\n
The clean-up operation took months and cost hundreds of thousands of pounds.<\/p>\n
The director disqualification proceedings were separate from the criminal case.<\/p>\n
The Court of Session’s decision means Pettigrew is barred from acting as a company director or being involved in the management of a company for the period specified by the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHS trusts in England terminated contracts with HES over concerns about growing waste stockpiles. The Environment Agency launched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744390","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=744390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}