Gloucester waste site director ordered to pay back more than £179,000

2nd November 2020


An illegal waste company director, Barry Connally, has been ordered to pay back over £179,000, obtained through proceeds of crime from his unlawful operations. Connally, 70, was the sole director of Rhino Recycling Limited, which operated a waste treatment facility on the QinetiQ Industrial Estate in Pershore, Worcestershire.

Between March 2013 and December 2015, he ran the facility without the necessary environmental permit. In June 2019 Connally was sentenced to 12 months' custody, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to

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