backdate

The sentence was backdated to the time of his arrest in Spain in May 2024.

This prompted a separate case to challenge how far back a claimant could backdate access to a pension scheme at the European Court of Justice - and this was successful.

He was then suspended for five years in a ban backdated to April 2023.

The data also showed that nearly 90% of the approved permit applications were backdated, retroactively giving permission for flares that were already burning.

After a civil court challenge the council was forced to release the data, which showed changes to three records had been made after the incident, including backdating records.