Beauty salon owner fined £12,000 for breaching Covid restrictions

Sanderson was previously handed a closure notice by Sefton Council after her salon had a poster in its window denying the existence of Covid

People walk past a Government sign warning people to stay at home (Andrew Matthews/PA)

A beauty salon owner has been fined after breaching Covid regulations by aiding a protest in Merseyside.

Julie Saunderson, 43, from Formby, who owns the “Skin Kerr” beauty salon in Bootle, encouraged a crowd of people protesting against the coronavirus restrictions imposed by the Government, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.