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Emma Munbodh

Couple fined £2,000 for hosting baby shower 16 days before lockdown restrictions eased

A couple have been fined more than £2,000 for holding a baby shower sixteen days before Covid restrictions were eased last year.

Student Assis Filipe, 22 and his partner have been issued £1,000 fines each for breaking restrictions amid the Partygate scandal.

Filipe told Westminster Magistrates' Court that he and his partner misunderstood the Covid relaxation rules and thought restrictions had ended when they held the gathering on May 1, 2021.

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