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At long last the Metropolitan Police has concluded its four month long investigation into the Downing Street lockdown-breaking parties. A team of 12 detectives working on Operation Hillman sorted through 345 documents including emails, door logs, diary entries and witness statements, 510 photographs and CCTV images and 204 questionnaires. And the results of this are now
Following confirmation that Boris Johnson is being fined as part of the 'partygate' scandal, here we explain the law behind the process
As the Met probes ‘partygate’, anyone caught breaking coronavirus rules at Downing Street could find themselves in a complex legal process
Outdoor drinkers in Manchester on 12 April after lockdown was eased. The maximum fine for breaching lockdown regulations in England is £10,000. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images Outdoor drinkers in Manchester on 12 April after lockdown was eased. The maximum fine for breaching lockdown regulations in England is £10,000. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images Tue 27 Apr 2021 02.08 EDT First published on Tue 27 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT All 85,000-plus Covid fines issued in England during the pandemic should be reviewed, MPs and peers have said, after more than a quarter of prosecutions in th...
All Covid-19 fines in England should be reviewed, MPs say Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images All 85,000-plus Covid fines issued in England during the pandemic should be reviewed, MPs and peers have said, after more than a quarter of prosecutions in the first two months of the year for breaching the regulations were shown to have been wrongly brought. The joint committee on human rights said coronavirus regulations, which have been changed at least 65 times since March last year, were muddled, discri...