A MAN who travelled from Swansea to Pembrokeshire to buy five sacks of potatoes has been fined for breaching Covid rules.
The 62-year-old was one of 14 people dealt with by magistrates on Tuesday (Oct 13) for breaches of The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020.
Other cases included a party-goer, a driver “out for a spin” and a Milford Haven woman, 29-year-old Nikki Shepherd, of Marble Hall Road, who refused to remove others from her home – she was ordered to pay £811.
The potato buyer, Robert John Coleman of Treborth, Swansea was among 14 fined, was ordered to pay £237.
All were caught by Dyfed-Powys Police between March and May, the potato buyer on April 9.
Some of the others ordered to pay £811 included:
• Man, 27, of Wirral, Merseyside, caught at a party in Newton, Powys
• Swansea woman, 22, who said she “just came out for a spin” on the A40 in Carmarthen
• An 18-year-old man from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, who twice refused a police officer’s instruction to go home when he was with a group of other men
• A 38-year-old Wirral man who went “out for a drive” to Welshpool, Powys.
• A 29-year-old Milford Haven woman who refused a police officer’s order to remove people from her home
The payment is to be made up of £600 fine, £66 surcharge for the victims of crime and £85 costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Those also told to pay £237 included:
• A woman, 45, who left her West Midlands home to visit beaches in Borth and Clarach Bay in Ceredigion
• A 20-year-old man from Brecon, Powys, who was told on four consecutive days he was away from his home in the town “without reasonable excuse”
