A mom has hit out at Downing Avenue’s Partygate antics after she was pressured by bailiffs to pay a £1,600 lockdown nice left unpaid by her son for ten months.
Amanda Martindale, from Stanley in County Durham, says she feels ‘infuriated’ concerning the hefty nice following information of the string of lockdown-breaching events in Whitehall.
Mrs Martindale stated she is aware of her 23-year-old son Alex ‘did mistaken’ however she added there may be ‘one rule for politicians and one other rule for the general public’.
Amazon employee Alex Martindale had attended a home gathering with six others in Prudhoe, Northumberland, on March 20, 2021, through the third nationwide lockdown.
Police turned up on the deal with after noise complaints and a number of other Covid fines have been doled out the attendees.
Mr Martindale was handed a £1,100 nice for taking part within the inside gathering throughout Tier 4 restrictions.
Explaining his actions, he stated: ‘I didn’t pay it on the time, as a result of I didn’t really feel prefer it was proper, and I didn’t open up the next letters despatched to me both.’
Amanda Martindale of Stanley, County Durham, together with her son Alex, 23, and the £1,600 penalty discover imposed by bailiffs after he attended a celebration throughout lockdown final March
Consequently, a bailiff arrived on the Martindale household residence on Tuesday, demanding £1,600 – an additional £500 on prime of the preliminary nice.
The CPS assortment order had risen since final March by means of sufferer surcharges and different further prices.
‘It’s a really intimidating expertise having a bailiff rock as much as your door like that,’ stated Mrs Martindale.
‘He stated he needed the cash by tomorrow or he’ll come and seize my furnishings or my son’s automobile.
‘It’s cash we merely don’t have. We’re all feeling the squeeze in the intervening time and it’s an excessive amount of cash to borrow off anybody we all know.’
The household say they’re ‘infuriated’ at having to pay amid ongoing investigations right into a string of Downing Avenue events.
Sixteen lockdown-flouting gatherings are being investigated by prime civil servant Sue Grey, a dozen of that are additionally being investigated by the Met Police drive.
Mrs Martindale added: ‘I’m livid, is Boris going to pay £1,600 for the string of events held at Whitehall?
‘Can’t we simply name Alex assembly up along with his pals a cheese and wine occasion?
‘My son is aware of he shouldn’t have been there, however it’s totallly unfair that he needs to be fined whereas the Prime Minister and different politicians get away with it.
‘Boris Johnson was partying whereas folks have been dying, and now my son, who’s only a 23-year-old looking for his ft, has an enormous monetary burden to fret about.’
The Cupboard Workplace have been approached for remark.
