Thames Water hit with record £20.3 million fine over huge sewage incident
People and animals were left ill and the huge amounts of untreated effluent killed thousands of fish.
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Thames Water has been fined a record £20.3 million for polluting the River Thames with 1.4 billion litres of raw sewage.
The company allowed huge amounts of untreated effluent to enter the waterway in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 2013 and 2014, leaving people and animals ill, and killing thousands of fish.
Judge Francis Sheridan handed down a fine of £20,361,140 – the largest penalty for a water utility for an environmental disaster – at a sentencing hearing at Aylesbury Crown Court on Wednesday.
