London Police fined 20 party goers for Boris Johnson in the midst of the pandemic, but refuses to divulge their names

The London Metropolitan Police (Met or Scotland Yard) said Tuesday that it will initially issue twenty fines as part of the police investigation into the holidays held on Downing Street and government offices during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Met said Tuesday that it will not disclose the names of the fined individuals or confirm which events criminalize the aforementioned sanctions for breaking social rules to contain the virus.

However, Downing Street, the residence and official office of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said that the Executive will publicly communicate whether he is among the fined individuals.

Specifically, the police will refer the fines to the so-called Office of Criminal History (ACRO), which is responsible for issuing sanctions to the individuals involved, who, in turn, have 28 days to pay or contest them.

If they choose the latter option, the police will have to review the case and decide whether to withdraw the sanction or transfer it to court.

“We are making every effort to move this investigation forward quickly and we have completed several assessments,” a police spokesman said Tuesday in a statement.

In the note, Scotland Yard also notes that “due to the significant amount of research material to be evaluated, more cases could be referred to ACRO”.

The Met has been investigating 12 events that could have broken the rules of lockdowns due to the pandemic, including three meetings in which Prime Minister Boris Johnson attended.

As part of their investigations, the agents sent more than a hundred questionnaires last February asking the assumptions involved in their participation in the events.

Last week, Scotland Yard reported that it had begun interviewing key witnesses to those celebrations, held between 2020 and 2021.

The police have more than 300 photographs and 500 pages of documents with alleged evidence of the holidays, which have also been the subject of an independent investigation by senior official Sue Gray, whose report she has not been able to issue in full so as not to interfere with that of the Met.

(With information from EFE)

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