Piers Corbyn has been hit with a £750 fine for organising four big gatherings that broke Covid-19 lockdown rules.
Walworth resident Corbyn, an outspoken Covid sceptic, organised four gatherings with more than 30 people – three in Westminster and one in Southwark, in August, September, October and December 2020.
Detective inspector Chris Rudd of the Met police said: “It was saddening to have to deal with these incidents where large numbers of people illegally gathered in breach of Covid regulations during a national emergency period.
“At a time when so many members of the public were making considerable sacrifices and abiding by the rules to keep others safe, these individuals acted selfishly and risked spreading the virus.
“However, our policing response demonstrated that we were prepared to take action and issue fixed penalty notices to those deliberately flouted the rules.”
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Corbyn, a former Southwark councillor and London mayoral candidate, as well as the brother of former Labour leader Jeremy, was also told to pay nearly £400 in prosecution costs and fees on top of the fine.
This is not the first time Corbyn has been fined for Covid-related offences. He was ordered to pay £250 in May for calling Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital vaccine staff “murderers”. He has reportedly been arrested fifteen times since the pandemic began.
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One such incident took place in February 2021, when he was arrested for handing out leaflets that appeared to compare Covid vaccines to the Holocaust. Corbyn denied “absurd” allegations of anti-semitism, saying that he “was married for 22 years to a Jewesss.”
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Corbyn ran again as a Southwark Council candidate in this year’s local elections, representing his Let London Live party. He told the News that his first priority was to oppose any future lockdown restrictions and coercion-enforced vaccination programmes the government might impose.
Corbyn has been contacted for comment on the latest fine.
