Merseyside s lockdown rule breakers who were taken to court liverpoolecho.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from liverpoolecho.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Courts where lockdown fines depended on day case was heard
In behind-closed-doors hearings, magistrates handed out fines to lockdown breakers that could depend more on when the case was heard than what a defendant had done
18:14, 30 APR 2021
Updated
Breaking lockdown would land you with a fine, but the courts handing them out have been condemned as opaque and arbitrary (Image: Julian Hamilton/Daily Miiror)
“Unjust” court hearings conducted in private resulted in wildly different punishments for lockdown breaches, the ECHO can reveal. An analysis of lockdown cases dealt with by Merseyside magistrates’ courts in behind-closed-doors hearings last year shows the amount a defendant was fined could depend more on the day their case was heard than on what they had actually done.
Five men who were part of huge illegal rave appear in court
Around 700 people attended the Halloween party in a disused warehouse
07:40, 10 FEB 2021
Updated
Sign up to FREE email alerts from
Wales Online -
Subscribe
When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice.
Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice
Five men who partied at a huge illegal rave have been appeared in court and been sentenced for their “selfish” behaviour.
Bristol Live reported that the five defendants all received fines at Bristol Magistrates’ Court after admitting offences in and around a disused warehouse in Beeches Industrial Estate in Yate.
The five selfish men who refused to leave a huge rave - and their reasons for going
“I’m a good citizen yeah, if you hit me with that you’re going to know about it
Updated
The video will auto-play soon8Cancel
Play now
Five men who partied at an illegal Yate rave have been sentenced for their “selfish” behaviour.
George Parsons, George Packham, Ashley Waker, Oliver Eavis and Josh Samson were among hundreds who gathered for a party lasting almost 24 hours last Halloween (October 31).
The five defendants all received fines today (February 9) at Bristol Magistrates’ Court after admitting offences in and around a disused warehouse in Beeches Industrial Estate.