Student fined £10k for rule-breaking party

A STUDENT who hosted a Covid rulebreaking house party has become one of the first people in the country to pay a £10,000 super-fine.

Nottinghamshire Police said the 20-year-old had also become the first person in the force area to pay the sum - more than enough to cover an entire year’s tuition. The third-year Nottingham Trent University student was handed a fixed penalty notice (FPN) after officers were called to a gathering at an address in the city’s Lenton area - where they discovered more than 30 people hiding - in breach of coronavirus rules.

At the time, police reported that students attending the party told officers they were “spoiling our fun” by breaking up the event on October 20 last year, on the eve of Tier 3 lockdown restrictions being imposed.

By that stage, mixing of households indoors had already been banned after the city entered Tier 2 restrictions on October 14.