Bored students caught at huge house party tell police they want to have fun
Police bodycam footage shows raid on student house party with up to 30 people breaching Covid-19 regulations
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Video footage shows police raiding an illegal student house party as those gathered protest they wanted to have fun .
Bodycam footage shows people attempting to flee the scene at the house in Ormskirk, only to be told by an officer to wait here until we’ve dealt with you.”
In the video, released by Lancashire Police, other partygoers make an attempt to plead with police to let them leave with one declaring ‘it’s not my house.’
âBoredâ students slammed for having illegal house party during national lockdown
Footage shows a raid on a house with up to 30 people breaching Covid-19 regulations
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Party-goers have been branded unbelievably selfish after around 30 were caught celebrating a birthday by police.
The students - who say they were bored and just wanted to have fun - will now face fines which total more than £17,000 following the raid on the house in Ormskirk, Lancashire, in the early hours of 31 January.
It is unbelievably selfish for anyone to believe they are exempt when so many law-abiding citizens have not seen their friends and family properly in almost a year.
Supt Karen Edwards, Lancashire Police
In one exchange a police officer can be heard asking an attendee, Should you be here? to which the party-goer replies, no, we shouldn t be .
By Press Association 2021
Police break up birthday party
A partygoer attending a student gathering which was broken up by police told officers “We’ve been bored and we want to have fun”, body-worn footage has shown.
Lancashire Police interrupted the birthday party, at a house in Wigan Road, Ormskirk, at about 2.45am on Sunday.
A spokesman for the force said several people fled the property when officers arrived, including some out of a window.
Body-worn footage shows one of the party-goers, who are believed to be Edge Hill University students, telling police: “We’ve been bored and we want to have fun.”
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Video footage has been released showing the moment police stormed an illegal house party in Lancashire during the national lockdown.