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Originally Posted by jfman

What an individual would do in similar circumstances is irrelevant in the law. There was a clear steer in the regulations and government messaging around the broad set of circumstances that applied here.

I'm also not convinced two parents suffering Coronavirus symptoms would have taken a child on a four and a half hour car journey when one of them has a sister nearby in London.

Now I completely disagree with you. We don't know the exact circumstances like did he try his sister and she couldn't help? Was the state of mind of the child such that leaving him withe sister would have been too upsetting for the child? Was there a conclusion drawn by the Cummings that best bet all round was to go to the farm estate near Durham?

The 4½ hour journey is neither here nor there; one hour? two hours? three hours? 260 miles. Why bring the distance into it?