I'm spitting feathers!

FURY AT £150 FINE FOR FEEDING CRUSTS TO PIGEONS

- PAUL BRITTON

A WOMAN has told of her fury after being fined £150 for throwing two small crusts from a sandwich to pigeons in Piccadilly Gardens.

Hazel Kirby said her punishment was triple the fine paid by Prime Minister Boris Johnson for breaching coronavirus restrictions at a Downing Street party during the pandemic.

Retired Hazel, 61, said she wanted to speak out to 'air' the issue in public and she called the fine disproportionate' to the current minimum penalty of £100 for a speeding offence in a vehicle in the UK.

Hazel, from Harwood, Bolton, was told she was issued with a fixed penalty notice for a 'littering offence' under Section 87 of the Environmental Act 1990. She said the fine rose from £120 to £150 because she didn't pay within 10 days as she left Greater Manchester the following day to visit a friend in the south who had just lost her husband.