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PRISON TERM

Couple who took child out of school for hols facing jail if they do it again

- BY LOUIE SMITH louie.smith@mirror.co.uk @smith_louie

Pickford ENGLAND goalie Jordan Pickford has been caught parking his £160,000 supercar in a disabled space.

The Everton star was snapped at the Trafford Centre, Manchester, yesterday with his Lamborghin­i Urus. Wearing a A COUPLE who took their child out of school for three term-time holidays have been warned they face prison if they do it again.

The parents were fined nearly £2,200 for two breaches but failed to pay.

They were ordered to appear before magistrate­s after pulling their child from school for a third time.

The couple were jailed for four weeks but magistrate­s suspended the term.

They were told any further illegal holidays could put them behind bars. grey tracksuit, the £60,000-a-week stopper left the luxury motor in a clearly marked disabled space. He returned around an hour later. A statement from Intu, owner of the shopping complex, said: “We closely Jonathan Lewis, education director at Cambridges­hire County Council, said: “Children who frequently miss school are far more likely to fall behind, and thus fail to reach their true potential.”

The parents, who live near Ely, Cambs, but have not been named, were ordered to work with probation for one year and monitor the car park to minimise the misuse of our accessible parking bays.”

Pickford – who starred for England at the 2018 World Cup in Russia – joined Everton in a £30million deal in 2017. pay court costs of £165 each. They must complete 20 days of Rehabilita­tion Activity Requiremen­t.

Until 2013 head teachers could allow for 10 days absence in “special circumstan­ces”. But Michael Gove, then Education DIRECTOR Jonathan Lewis Secretary, said this could be granted only in “exceptiona­l circumstan­ces”. Businessma­n Jon Platt sparked a legal fight after refusing to pay £60 for taking his daughter to Florida without permission. In 2017 the Supreme Court upheld the ban on term-time holidays. Children are “persistent­ly absent” once their attendance drops below 90%. Last year there were more than 6,400 pupils who fell into that category in Cambridges­hire.

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