A senior manager with Scotland’s environment agency falsely claimed that a company boss threatened to dump medical waste in hospital car parks.
Shona McConnell was accused of “sticking the boot into” Garry Pettigrew who’s at the centre of allegations that waste, including human body parts, was stored illegally.
Pettigrew, 56, and Healthcare Environmental Services Limited deny a string of charges relating to the company’s Shotts and Dundee depots.
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The firm had a contract to process all of Scotland’s NHS waste but went into liquidation in 2019 with the loss of more than 200 jobs.
Ms McConnell, who works for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, told a trial in November of concerns over waste mounting at the Shotts facility.
In her evidence at Hamilton Sheriff Court, she said managing director Pettigrew had contacted SEPA to say “it was his intention to deposit waste back in hospital car parks”.
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