CAMPAIGNERS have condemned the £200,000 donation to Vaughan Gething’s Welsh Labour leadership bid from a firm convicted for environmental dumping.

The Welsh Green Party questioned today whether such large sums of money should be donated for internal campaigns after it emerged that the firm at the centre of the row, Dauson Environmental Group — “a multi-disciplined waste recycling, recovery and demolition contractor with expertise in land regeneration” — has applied to build a solar farm in Mr Gething’s constituency.

Dauson boss David Neal was given a suspended prison sentence in 2013 for dumping waste in a conservation site and four years later was given another suspended prison sentence for failing to remove the waste.