由于垃圾倾倒,学校缺勤和福利欺诈而被罚款或判处3人. Three people fined or sentenced in Essex for waste dumping, school non-attendance, and benefit fraud.

2026年3月16日,科尔切斯特的费利西亚·丹尼斯因在2025年10月22日在公共区域倾倒9个黑色垃圾袋被罚款658英. On March 16, 2026, Felicia Dennis of Colchester was fined £658 for dumping nine black bin bags of controlled waste in a communal area on October 22, 2025. 第二天,威瑟姆的45岁斯图尔特·罗斯塞特 (Stuart Rossiter) 收到一个社区命令,最高有20天的康复活动,并被判处支付314英,因为他没有确保他的孩子从2024年9月至2025年3月定期上学. The next day, Stuart Rossiter, 45, of Witham, received a community order with up to 20 days of rehabilitation activity and was ordered to pay £314 after being found guilty of failing to ensure his child attended school regularly from September 2024 to March 2025. 同样在3月17日,萨弗伦沃尔登的51岁菲利普·詹姆斯·李奇被判处40周缓刑和272英罚款.此前他承认自己因未能报告2021年12月至2024年4月期间福利状况变化而欺诈性地索取19,000英金额的罪名. Also on March 17, Philip James Leach, 51, of Saffron Walden, was given a 40-week suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay £272 in penalties after pleading guilty to fraudulently claiming £19,000 by failing to report changes to his benefit status between December 2021 and April 2024. 所有案件都在北埃塞克斯地方法院进行审理. All cases were heard at North Essex Magistrates Court.