Jewish leaders have condemned a wedding attended by around 400 people at a school after it was broken up by police. The windows of the state-funded Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School in Egerton Road, Stamford Hill, near Tottenham, had been covered to stop people seeing in when officers arrived on Thursday night. Around 400 people had gathered inside the building for a wedding in breach of Covid-19 regulations, the Metropolitan Police said. Many of the guests fled as officers arrived at the Orthodox Jewish school but the force said the organiser is facing a £10,000 fine, while five others were handed £200 fixed-penalty notices.
Updated / Friday, 22 Jan 2021
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The Yesodey Hatorah Secondary Girls School in Stamford Hill, north London
Jewish leaders have condemned a wedding attended by around 400 people at a north London school after it was broken up by police.
The windows of the state-funded Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School in Egerton Road, Stamford Hill, had been covered to stop people seeing in when officers arrived last night.
Around 400 people had gathered inside the building for a wedding in breach of Covid-19 regulations, the Metropolitan Police said.
Many of the guests fled as officers arrived at the Orthodox Jewish school but the force said the organiser is facing a £10,000 fine, while five others were handed £200 fixed-penalty notices.
By Press Association 2021
Coronavirus Stamford Hill
Detectives are searching for the organisers of a wedding attended by about 150 people in a north London school.
The windows of the state-funded Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School in Egerton Road, Stamford Hill, had been covered and the gates closed to stop people seeing in when officers arrived on Thursday night.
A statement from the school, whose principal, Rabbi Avrahom Pinter, died in April after contracting coronavirus, said the hall had been leased to an outside organisation and “we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place”.
A spokesman said: “We are absolutely horrified about last night’s event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”