Five COVID rule-breakers from Derbyshire who left their fines unpaid have been forced to pay thousands of pounds at court.
The five people were ticketed for a variety of COVID-related breaches earlier in the year.
But all five of them left their fines unpaid.
After a review by Derbyshire Constabulary, the five individuals, who the force has not named, were sent to court where they were handed further fines totalling £6,655.
The five were given the following fines on the following dates:
Male, aged 65. 25th April in Grassmoor, Chesterfield.
Travelled to Grassmoor to visit a girlfriend. His home address was found to be a caravan site that was being used by key workers who were having to stay away from their families to protect them from the risk of infection.
He received a £379 fine, £85 in costs and a £37 victim surcharge.
Male, aged 20. 26th April in Loundsley Green, Chesterfield.
Officers responded to reports of a house party that was made by residents. All of the party-goers were checked, and the man was found to have already been given a ticket which had been subsequently rescinded.
Received a £666 fine, £85 in costs and £66 victim surcharge.
Male, aged 37. 27th April in Longshaw.
Travelled from Sheffield to camp and have a BBQ. He refused to give details to an officer and was obstructive throughout.
Received a £1,760 fine, £85 in costs and £176 victim surcharge.
Female, aged 32. 27th April in Longshaw.
Travelled from Sheffield to camp and have a BBQ. She refused to give details to an officer and was obstructive throughout.
Received a £1,760 fine, £85 in costs and £176 victim surcharge.
Male, aged 59. 18th April in Chellaston.
A group of revellers were inside a house. Following a tip-off by members of the public, officers attended the address, and the occupants refused to disperse.
The man was abusive towards officers.
Received a £1,100 fine, £85 in costs and £110 victim surcharge.
Detective Chief Inspector Emlyn Richards, who leads the force’s response to COVID-19, said:
“Each of the five people listed above were given adequate opportunity to pay the fine but decided, for whatever reason, not to.
“All of the cases had their own particular aggravating circumstances – with some putting key workers at risk with their behaviour, others repeatedly breaching the restrictions and others travelling a significant distance at a time when COVID-19 was spreading across the country.
“Over the last nine months, officers have, at all times, tried to engage, educate and encourage people to follow the rules and help protect themselves, their loved ones and their communities.
“But these five heeded none of those warnings, and I hope that their significant fines act as a double warning.
“Firstly, if officers find particularly serious, or repeated, breaches then you will be issued with a fine.
“And secondly, if you do receive a fine then you must pay it.
“If you do not then you run the risk that, like these five, you will find yourself in court facing the prospect of a serious fine and a criminal conviction.”
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Covid is a new form of flu. The first, draconian lock down seemed to be successful. Of course, the fake scientists refused to acknowledge that flu always dies down in the summer. Come autumn, flu started to rise again, including the Covid strain. The Welsh tried a 2 week fire break. It failed. The UK locked down again for the whole of November. That failed too. Now there is hysteria about a mutated strain of Covid. Again, the flu virus, regardless of which one, mutates. This is why the annual flu jab is always different.
Meanwhile, the new variant Covid is no nastier than the orignal. It is just different, that is all. As for the vaccine, it will not see off Covid any more than it has seen off flu. It might protect some people, but even so, people will continue to die of Covid. All that we can hope for is that the vaccine will reduce that number.
Meanwhile, the false reporting of ‘Covid related’ deaths continues. If someone with Covid in their system, whether they know it or not, is squashed by a bus, they have died of bus, not Covid. They could have cancer or any other very nasty, potentially fatal disease, but they still died of bus. Sure, they might have been taking so many pills that they rattled when they walked, but they still died of bus.
The only people that we are really interested in are those who end up really ill. Therefore, how many people test positive for Covid? We do not know and there is evidence that some of the testing is so badly conducted, there are lots of false positives. Nonetheless,. of those testing positive, how many become ill? Indeed, how ill do they become?
If it is a few days off feeling rubbish, then it might be Covid or equally easily, seasonal flu. The test is so sensitive, it can detect old strands of flu virus floating about the system. So, no problem here, but we do need to extrapolate the numbers in relation to those showing no signs or symptoms.
Of these infected people a few will need medical treatment, like the PM. He was in Intensive Care, but not, as far as I am aware, ventilated. Of these seriously ill people, a few will need ventilating. Of those being ventilated, a few will die. Of two things you can be sure. Death and taxes. It happens to all of us, we just do not know when. Well, not the death bit anyway.
We then need to look at those who died. Were they fit and healthy and struck down out of the blue? A tiny number might well have suffered such a sad fate. Were they suffering from underlying conditions that start to compromise their immune systems, including extreme old age?
Once we get some honest data, and it is too late for that now, we can then start taking some sober decisions and balance them against shutting down the economy and the immense damage this is causing.
Government will get no Corporation Tax to speak of this year. Everybody, except perhaps the City, will have made losses. So that is 20/21 spoken for. 21/22 will also not see much tax coming in because those losses will be carried forward to next year’s profits, assuming there are any. So 21/22 will be a bust as well. 22/23 might improve, but by then the damage done will be huge, so benefits will soar while tax takings plummet.
On the back of this, government borrowing has gone stratospheric. If interest rates rise from 0.1% to 0.2%, the interest on my savings account might rise from 0.01% to 0.02%. Put another way, for every £100 I have saved, I will earn 2 pence a year interest rather than a penny a year. Wow.
Conversely, government interest payments will double and it cannot even cover existing borrowing with tax income. This cannot end well and uncontrolled spending is still soaring.
The best thing the cops can do is to look the other way, because if they do not, they will be playing an active part in further wrecking the country and further alienating those that they police.
As things stand, freedom is being cancelled on corrupted data and forecasts. The forecasts have been shown to be wrong and will continue to be wrong, wildly so. The people are sick of seeing their businesses and jobs being destroyed for no valid reason and with each successive lock down, fewer and fewer people pay any attention to it.
I just hope that my local survives. I am not optimistic. Another local pub has a to let sign on the door. This is only going to get worse.