The first person in Britain to be arrested and convicted under the Coronavirus Act is a Black woman. Arrested and fined for 'failing to provide identity or reasons for travel to police, and failing to comply with requirements'. Britain 2020.
Kirsty Brimelow QC, a Human Rights Lawyer: 'Powers under the Coronavirus Act do not relate to a direction to provide identity or reason for a journey... she has been prosecuted and convicted for an offence which does not exist under this act.'
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