That National audience Next Tuesday a hearing will be held to study the possibility of handing him over great Britain from UK citizens responsible for collecting and transferring over 600,000 tires which sparked a major fire in Bradford in November 2020. The disaster kept the city under tension for two and a half weeks and caused a toxic cloud that experts said had an impact on bushfires. environment and the health of neighbors.

“The fire at the facility caused a serious incident which resulted in the closure of all railway lines, 25 schools, courts, police stations and business premises in the area for four days. Air quality is greatly affectedwith airborne particles in a kindergarten nearby which is beyond the scale of the equipment used to evaluate it,” explained the extradition request from British authorities.

That Prosecutor’s Office Spain has issued a report supporting the extradition of Stuart Bedford, who was arrested on Spanish territory on August 16 and provisionally released a day later after refusing to surrender voluntarily to British authorities. He was charged with committing an act that could be included in the Criminal Code as a criminal offense against the environment.

The charges against him were not causing the fire, which required the intervention of more than a hundred firefighters to control, but ultimately being responsible for not removing the tires when necessary, as well as his responsibility. unlicensed transfer to two karting circuits.

“Controlling mind”

The extradition request explains that, although at the time Bedford was not officially listed as a director of the company Equalityre Limited, but rather his wife, he was the “controller” of what happened there.

Therefore, British authorities explained, the man would be breaking the law both by transporting the tires to the circuit, for which permission was not even requested, and by storing them there.

“Neither of the two locations was authorized to receive them, making their storage and holding illegal,” the report, which criticized Equalityre’s previous lack of collaboration with Equalityre, said. Environmental agency from England. “The way tires are stored poses a high risk of fire and spread, because they are stored in large piles and without fire breaks.”