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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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More information in this article. She was held in police custody for over two days for refusing to give her name and address to police. She was not present when the judge convicted her under legislation that does not exist: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/coronavirus-marie-dinou-lockdown-stay-at-home-loitering-arrest-fine-police-a9444311.html
