Hundreds caught at illegal rave with doors padlocked as police issue £15k in fines
dailystar.co.ukLondon on Saturday night, with more than £15,000 in fines handed out.Organisers padlocked the doors from the inside to stop police getting inside the party at a railway arch, where 300 revellers were tightly packed.Dozens of guests scaled fences at the back of the premises in Hackney, east London to escape.Others forced open a gate to escape the officers, who came backed up with a police helicopter and dogs.The Metropolitan Police raided the unlicensed music event at around 1.30am on Sunday.Officers stopped 78 people and issued them with £200 fixed penalty notices for breaching coronavirus regulations by attending an illegal gathering.The fines totalled £15,600.The raid came as the UK’s grim Covid-19 death toll nears 100,000 after a further.
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