A Sheffield woman has complained after money was automatically taken out of her account without her knowledge after being told she’d receive a £10,000 coronavirus fine last year. The Yorkshire Examiner has the story.
Sunny-Jo Veasey, 28, is set to have £320 taken out of her account every month after a court hearing took place in her absence and set the charge at £2,026.
She was initially issued with the fine while living in a shared property with seven other people on Ecclesall Road.
She has complained about the “crippling” fine amid the cost of living crisis and insists she didn’t organise a “rave type gathering of more than 30 persons” as has been stated on the charge sheet.
She has also complained about her situation in comparison to that of Boris Johnson and the Government, who are still awaiting to see what their punishment will be after the details of their lockdown gatherings were passed on to the Metropolitan Police force.
She said: “They had parties when they were telling everyone else not to and nothing’s happened. It’s disgusting.
“Hopefully something comes of it [the police investigation]. If they can charge a person like me £2,000 then they should get the same, although it will probably just be pocket money for them.”
Sunny-Jo was told by police that she would be fined £10,000 when they attended a gathering at the shared house she was living in on Ecclesall Road on February 28th 2021.
The country was in a lockdown at the time and indoor gatherings were banned.
Sunny-Jo admits that she was in the wrong to break the rules but says that she only invited eight friend friends over to the property and that the event got “out of hand” when people from nearby began showing up uninvited.
Sunny-Jo has now moved to a new home in Chapeltown and believes that all correspondence about the court hearing went to her previous home and which is why when the court hearing was held she was unaware that it was taking place.
In her absence she said it was decided that 17% of her monthly income would be taken to pay off the £2,026 fine, with £320 taken out last month.
She said: “I didn’t know anything since the night it happened so I presumed there was nothing coming from it. Then they took 17% of my income. I have been calling the courts crying and trying to say that I can’t afford this. The cost of living is through the roof and you are taking this much out of my wage.”
Sunny-Jo has since been able to get the correspondence that she believes were sent to her previous property and after speaking to the Ministry of Justice, she has appealed the court’s decision and another hearing is now scheduled for this Thursday (March 10th).
When will the Government declare an amnesty for those punished under these ludicrous laws that people increasingly agree should never have been imposed in the first place, and which Government ministers and staff have been exposed as routinely ignoring?
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Aye, aye, what’s going on here then? I thought DS had put a lid on this.
It was article the involvement of the Helen MacNamara woman that disappeared from here and from the Telegraph.
I reiterate the points I made last time
1) Does this young lady think it would be OK to ban a fan for posting “anti-Lesbian” or “misogynistic” Tweets? If so then isn’t that a bit inconsistent?
2) Would she accept that identity politics in which she is apparently involved in so far as she “campaigns for gay, bisexual and women’s rights” (not sure what rights those people lack) tends to lead to what has happened to her?
I have nothing personally against the young lady and do not believe she should be banned, think the PL and the club are disgraceful etc etc. Just think we need to look at the bigger picture.
I could apply your post just as easily to JK Rowling.
Possibly. I don’t know much about her, other than she has attracted a lot of vitriol for being a “TERF” and has stood her ground. I don’t know what her general views are on freedom of speech and “identity politics”.
I’m certainly not suggesting that this young lady or J K Rowling should be condemned completely, but if their positions are arguably inconsistent neither should they be approved of completely.
Very few people are free speech absolutists – something I think is a negative.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-project-fear-and-the-vaccine-rewrote-the-software-of-the-brain/
The Great Reset is based on resets of our brains.
“the manipulation of human behaviour has now gone beyond an understanding of psychology, sociology or through ‘nudging’, and into the realms of ‘environmental engineering’.”
Well weren’t we just discussing this very topic yesterday? Yes the censorship net is getting ever tighter, our ability to speak freely throttled by the corrupt, authoritarian woketards;
”Last month the European Parliament passed a report calling on the Council to include hate speech and hate crime among so-called “Euro crimes”.
In other words, offensive speech may soon be established as a criminal offence, which all member states must integrate into their own legal systems. However, no clear threshold has been set for what makes speech prosecutable.
According to Maite Pagazaurtundúa of Renew Europe, rapporteur for the report and Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, “we must protect people who are attacked, persecuted and harassed … always in accordance with the principle of proportionality and guaranteeing freedom of expression for citizens”.
This sounds nice, but it is also dangerously vague.
The Parliament’s report comes as part of a process started by the Commission in 2020. In her inaugural speech, Ursula von der Leyen had stressed the need “to extend the list of EU crimes to all forms of hate crime and hate speech – whether because of race, religion, gender or sexuality”.
This is yet another example of decisions that are being imposed on Europeans top-down.
Would quoting from St. Paul’s 1 Corinthians, where homosexuality is clearly condemned, be banned because it violates somebody’s “dignity”? Would stating that there are only two genders become criminalised? Would saying that Europe should remain a predominantly Christian continent break the law? The questions are not rhetoric.”
https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/the-eus-hate-speech-laws-are-an-attack-on-free-speech-itself-this-years-european-elections-may-be-the-last-chance-to-defend-our-rights/
Von der Leyen show us your deleted TXT messages you corrupt Bit@h.
Yesterday I caught a clip from Jeremy Vine (I know) They were asking for positive experiences from the Lockdowns — Many said more time with family etc, but they had a guest on the show on the big screen who was based. He said he enjoyed the tranquility but also learned to ignore the Press and that Lockdown was the UKs biggest psyop. Nobody answered to that. I’m surprised they invited him on when you consider how they treated Bev Turner, and how fast they got shot of Dan Wotton on there in early 2020.
Thanks tof
I don’t know where she gets them from but some of them are crackers
This is a classic too