Abbi Taylor, formerly known as Martin Tarling, of South Shields, will stand trial next year accused of a series of offences
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A woman has denied depositing adult nappies containing human waste at three Tyneside nurseries.
Abbi Taylor, formerly known as Martin Tarling, is accused of a series of offences which are alleged to have happened in South Tyneside. She will stand trial next year in a case expected to last around five days.
During a hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, Taylor pleaded not guilty to three counts of depositing controlled waste, namely that she knowingly illegally treated and/or disposed of controlled waste in a manner likely to cause pollution to the environment and/or harm to human health by disposing of bags of nappies containing human waste between October and November 2023. It is alleged the offences happened at the Busy Bees children's nursery in Cleadon, South Tyneside, Ashfield Nursery, in South Shields and Little Gems Nursery, in Jarrow.
She further denied theft of clinical waste bags from Busy Bees nursery in December 2022 and damaging property - milk bottles and a fire escape at Little Gems - in October last year.
Taylor, 45, of Haymarket Walk, South Shields, also pleaded not guilty to acting in breach of a criminal behaviour order by being at or within ten metres of a children's nursery and removing items from a waste container between April and November 2023 and also denied causing a public nuisance at or near a children's nursery.
An eighth charge of outraging public decency 'by being inside a bin containing soiled nappies and disclosed garments and interacting with soiled nappies within sight of the public' was not put.
Taylor will stand trial on March 3 next year and was further released on conditional bail. She was told there will be further pre-trial hearings in April this year and February next year.
