Chesterfield Borough Council successfully concluded a prosecution at North East Derbyshire and Dales Magistrates’ Court on 8th February.
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Alfonso Francesco Desideri (age 42 years) of Langdale Close, Linacre Woods, Chesterfield pleaded guilty to an offence of smoking a cigarette in a hackney carriage and an offence of dropping litter (throwing the cigarette out of the hackney carriage). A hackney carriage is a smoke-free place.
The offences happened on 19 September 2011 at Whittington Hill, Chesterfield when one of the Council’s Enforcement Officers saw Mr Desideri smoking in a hackney carriage which he was driving and then throwing the cigarette out of the window.
Mr Desideri was initially given the opportunity of paying a fixed penalty for both offences but he disputed that he had been smoking and he did not pay the fixed penalties of £50 each.
At a previous hearing, on 25 January 2012, Mr Desideri pleaded not guilty to the offences but he changed his plea to guilty on 8 February.
Mr Desideri was fined £73 for each offence and ordered to pay costs of £150 and a victims’ surcharge of £15, a total of £311.
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