A champion bodybuilder who opened his gym during lockdown has been fined £56,000.
Eddy Ellwood, 58, was convicted of breaking lockdown laws this afternoon when he kept his Xtreme Fitness gym in Hartlepool open in February last year - when the country was in its third lockdown.
However, Ellwood made an extraordinary statement in the courtroom after he was handed the fine at Teesside Magistrates' Court.
