13-05-2022, 08:03
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Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Re: Partygate & Beergate discussion
NEW: Starmer police gave woman retrospective £10,000 fine
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Durham police carried out a retrospective investigation into a coronavirus breach and issued a fine within weeks of Sir Keir Starmer being filmed drinking a beer, it has emerged.
The force has refused to say whether it will fine the Labour leader even if it finds him guilty of breaking lockdown rules for drinking and eating a takeaway meal in an MP’s office last April.
Some of Starmer’s supporters have assumed that detectives would not issue a fixed-penalty notice because they decided not to take retrospective action against Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s former adviser.
However, the force’s approach appeared to harden later in the pandemic and it issued a £10,000 fine to a woman who organised a balloon release in memory of her father-in-law, who died of Covid.
Vicki Hutchinson held the gathering on November 11, 2020, in a field opposite a church in Horden, Co Durham, where Ian Stephenson’s funeral was due to take place a few days later. Her £10,000 fine was reduced to £500, based on her ability to pay, when she attended Peterlee magistrates’ court on April 23 last year, a week before the Starmer incident.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...fine-9zgmfkmqw
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