London Police Arrest 17 at Hyde Park Anti-Lockdown Rally
UK police arrested 17 anti-lockdown protesters on Saturday in London’s Hyde Park on suspicion of breaching CCP virus restrictions.
Officers arrested four people who had gathered in Hyde Park near Marble Arch at around 1 p.m. local time under Health Protection Regulations, the Metropolitan Police said on Twitter.
At around 1pm, 4 people were arrested under Health Protection Regs having gathered in Hyde Park near Marble Arch. Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the Tier 4 rules. It’s up to all of us to make the right choices + slow the spread of the virus
Jeremy Corbyn s brother Piers was arrested for the second time in 2021 at an anti-lockdown protest in London s Hyde Park.
Corbyn, 73, was among 17 people who were arrested for breaching Health Protection Regulations at the demonstration at Speaker s Corner, in Hyde Park, on January 2.
A crowd of between 200 and 300 people gathered to protest against lockdown restrictions and their civil liberties being curtailed.
It came after Corbyn was fined and arrested on New Year s Day after leading a New Year s Eve anti-lockdown protest near the London Eye, in the centre of the capital.
Corbyn, brother of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, posted a video of what was dubbed the NYE Party of Parties on his Twitter feed, proclaiming: TOTAL SUCCESS! #NYEPartyofParties by London Eye.
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While New Year’s Ever passed off quietly for most with empty streets across Northern Ireland, police were busy responding to 1,004 calls. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Another 26 people have died with Covid-19, the Department of Health said.
Figures also show there are 483 patients in hospital with Covid-19, with 35 of those in ICUs.
In the last seven days, 10,850 people have tested positive with the virus, up from 4,281 for the previous seven days.
DESPITE Tier 4 coronavirus restrictions telling people in Sussex to stay at home this New Year s Eve, police in the county still had plenty to do. Sussex Police provided updates on social media throughout the evening, with incidents including a man carrying a machete in Crawley, a dramatic car chase in Brighton and Covid rule breaches on Hove beach.
These are just some of the incidents Sussex Police dealt with last night:
The aftermath of the minibus crash Credit @slurpinpig
1. PC Glen McArthur of the Sussex Roads Policing Unit attended a crash in the early hours of this morning A minibus which was transporting workers for their shift careered over a roundabout leaving the vehicle heavily damaged.