Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A woman who was pulled over while driving 30 minutes to McDonald’s during lockdown told a police officer ‘I’m not arsed, issue me a fine’.
Louise Whelan, 30, was driving a black Mercedes with two male passengers when she was pulled over on November 12 last year - despite lockdown rules preventing people from gathering with people outside their household, the Liverpool Echo reports.
She was stopped in West Derby, which is a 30 minute drive from her home on Rankin Street, in Poulton, Merseyside. Officers stopped Whelan’s car because she was “struggling to stay between the white lines and there was a strong smell of cannabis emanating from the vehicle”,
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