A PERSON or company could be prosecuted for the dumping of hundreds of tonnes of soil and dirt onto a St Brelade beach.

Planning assistant director Peter Le Gresley has confirmed that papers relating to the alleged tipping of earth and rubble off the edge of a private road at Les Creux are now with the Crown Offices. A Crown advocate is in the process of reviewing the papers but no one has had charges laid against them at this time.

The Planning department were alerted to the incident after St Brelade resident Jim Hughes contacted them after he watched lorries travelling along Chemin des Creux and Chemin de Beauport, tipping soil over the edge of the road.

Mr Hughes, who lives on the road leading from St Brelade’s Church to ex-Formula One driver Nigel Mansell’s Beauport Battery home, was shocked to see the lorries going back and forth along the road every 20 minutes over a six-day period and he e-mailed Planning immediately on Friday 4 August to inform them.