Western Plains baker Brendan McNeil was on his way to work in October 2020. This was the peak period of the COVID spread and the height of COVID restrictions.
It was 3 am. His car had broken down, and he had to stop to get to fixed. A police car stopped to see what was going on.
They fined him for breach of COVID restrictions because he was outside without a valid excuse.
“This just seemed very cruel and unkind,” Samantha Lee, Police Accountability Solicitor at Redfern Legal Centre, told the Western Plains App.
Not least of all because the fine was worth several thousand dollars…