In January 2021, Leeds student Xen Watts organised a lockdown snowball fight and was hit with a £10k fine that ruined his life. Half of the 120,000 Covid fines went to 18-24 year-olds. We owe young people a massive apology.
The Justice Secretary who oversaw the courts during the pandemic has called for an amnesty for the more than 29,000 people given criminal convictions for breaking Covid rules.
Almost half of lockdown fines – totalling nearly £17 million – remain unpaid and are crippling those liable for them, it is reported, as lawyers call for an amnesty.
More than 28,000 people in England and Wales have been convicted of breaches of Covid regulations, despite the Government’s insistence that it never intended to criminalise people during the pandemic.
A 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. Where is the amnesty from these ludicrous laws?
A lockdown sceptic who refused to close his card shop in Droitwich during the third lockdown and was fined £35,000 by Kidderminster Magistrates' Court has had his conviction overturned on appeal.
