Thursday 12 May 2022 01:50 AM Couple fined £1,000 over Indian dinner for four in Durham weeks before Keir ... trends now
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A couple fined £1,000 for having dinner with two friends in lockdown yesterday hit out at police for treating Keir Starmer more leniently than ‘normal people like us’.
They were penalised for an incident a few weeks before, and a few miles from, the infamous ‘Beergate’ curry in Durham.
Officers ignored their explanation for socialising with far fewer people than the Labour leader.
Chris Brown, 32, and wife Gemma, 37, went to another couple’s house for a steak dinner and few drinks in March last year.
But during the evening two police officers knocked on the door saying they had been told 18 people were partying inside.
Mrs Brown said they invited the officers in to show them only four people were present and explained that their hosts were a support bubble for her husband because of his mental health problems.
He was being treated for depression following the death of a close friend.
All four later received letters informing them they had been fined £200 for breaching Covid regulations.
Anger: Chris and Gemma Brown
Mrs Brown, a beauty therapist and mother of two, initially contested
