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Former animal control officer Michael Murdoch has been fined $1500 for breaching the Covid-19 national lockdown rules. (File photo)
An Invercargill animal control officer who licked his fingers and wiped them down his workplace reception window the day he was told he had recovered from Covid-19 has lost his job and been fined $1500. Michael James Murdoch, who had interim name suppression, appeared in the Invercargill District Court on Thursday for sentencing on a charge of failing to comply with a medical officer of health requirement to stay at home unless it was for essential personal movement or an essential permitted movement.