A Brighton artist who claimed to be a trust fund in court had succeeded on his second attempt to get a covid party fine cancelled.
Jake Fern, of Stanmer Avenue, was charged with failing to comply with a coronavirus direction by holding a party at a community centre in Providence Place, Brighton.
A member of the public called police on 13 November 2020, and when officers turned up, there were about 50 people present.
In August 2021, he was fined £220 and ordered to pay costs of £120 and a victim surcharge of £34 by Brighton Magistrates Court.
When contacted by Brighton and Hove News, Fern, a portrait artist and poet, replied with a quote from John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty —that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
He then applied to get the conviction overturned in October 2022 after the court chased him for the fine, which had not paid.
Court records state the application was refused because: “defendant refused to swear a statutory declaration and would only swear a declaration describing himself as ‘beneficiary of the trust fund named above’ i.e. describing himself as a trust fund.”
But last month, he finally got the conviction cancelled after again applying to have the case reopened – again prompted by being pursued for the outstanding court bill.
This time, the court was told that the Crown Prosecution Service no longer considered it in the public interest to proceed with the case.
Fern, 50, told Brighton and Hove News: “All charges were dropped and I never paid a single penny.
“It was an interesting adventure where I learned a lot.. not only about the legal system but also about how these things are presented to the public.
“I don’t know if you remember but you published my address in one article. I’m assuming you will be keen to publish a story about my innocence and apologise for doxxing me.”
Fern’s artwork has also drawn controversy, after members of the public complained about two exhibitions he staged in Rottingdean and Brighton.
He exhibited a piece entitled Covid is a Scam in Rottingdean in October 2021, which led to complaints. He subsequently made prints of the watercolour and sold them via his Instagram page, including tags such as #plandemic #newworldorder #depopulationagenda #eugenicsoperation #covidisapsyop.
Among his most recent pieces is a portrait of Michael Manuel Chaves, aka Mad Mick, a leader of the anti-vax conspiracy theory movement.
Well if BoJo got away with partying at Downing Street without penalties during covid, presumably the law didn’t have a leg to stand on re trying to fine this bloke.
except all puppets are excused from unlawful ‘laws’ that they make
and what I meant to say is yes exactly, not a leg!
Boris Johnson was very famously fined for breaking his own covid law:
https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-fined-prime-minister-apologises-after-receiving-fixed-penalty-notice-for-lockdown-breaking-party-12588712
That’s the thing. No Act of Parliament is law, they are legislation. They even said that the Coronavirus Act were Rules, not law.
Yes, an Act of Parliament is law.
Once an Act has passed through all the stages of the legislative process in Parliament—typically involving readings, committee scrutiny, and debates in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords—and has received Royal Assent from the monarch, it becomes a part of the statutory law of the UK. This law is then binding and enforceable throughout the country.
conspiracy theory?
so very dreary
conspiracy fact
is common sense backed
maybe you need a wake up call
won’t be long now til your fall
wrap it up as QAnon
if it makes you feel better
imagine you’re a jet-setter
while soon us useless eaters
won’t be allowed out of our homes
with only the garden gnomes
for company
wrap it up as far right
get the lamestream media to join the plight
is everybody sitting tight?
because we ain’t giving up
without a good fight
wrap it up as hate speech
of course you practice what you preach
just like Partygate
how could any of us be left irate?
divide and conquer yet again
but we refuse to live in an animal pen
ignoring midazolam
calling us the loonies not the scam
you know you’re part of the plan
and history my dear
will remember that loud and clear
What the hell is ‘doxxing’?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
This should explain it here https://gprivate.com/60jmp
Unwanted exposure of your personal details online. Usually name and address.
He is NOT innocent.. The CPS has just declined to reopen the case and cost us the taxpayer more money. The truth is that he broke the COVID regulation. Since then he’s treated the courts and us the taxpayer as fools. He should swan off, paint bad portraits and poems … Total waste of time and space.
But it’s ok when it’s BoJo the Prime Minister, partying and breaking all his own covid rules???
You need to wake up, buddy. He is speaking the truth and you are missing the point. The CPS don’t want to proceed because they don’t have a leg to stand on. Remember the Downing Street parties around that time? They obviously knew there was no danger. To date there are around 14,000 claims from people saying that the COVID jab left them disabled. Goodness knows how many poor souls died as a result of ‘doing the right thing’ and taking the toxic jab. You should open your eyes and do some independent research.
the court made a judgement, thats what there there for…….your opinion however, he should swan off, paint bad portraits and poems..total waste of time and space…..where should he swan off to? as. for bad portraits, Jake’s artwork is phenomenal, his portrait work is far from bad…its brilliant. Ive never come across his poetry , but the song lyric’s he creates are simply beautiful. As for treating the tacske payers [my ecks doesnt work] as fools…well many were, adjudging by your comment ,unbelievably some still. are….there is a principal that will keep a man in ever lasting ignorance ….and that is contempt prior to investigation….I wish you well and hope for you a pleasant life.
The point is they were “Guidelines” (as admitted by Matt Hancock on Love Island) and Guidelines are not the same as Laws or even Legislation. The point is the govt issued these fines implying that they had legislative weight when they didn’t, which is why thousands of people unknowingly and unwittingly paid them. This guy is one of the ones that know the reality of the law, know the reality of what happened, and the CPS realise it’s pointless trying to fine him because he knows their scam inside out. So technically he IS innocent because the regulations did not have the validity of Law.
Fern was prosecuted under paragraphs 5(1) and 9 of Schedule 22 of the Coronavirus Act 2020. Which is a UK law.
Some rules were guidelines. Others were definitely law.
Wow 😯 everyone trying to argue on here. They want division so then health care can be controlled by breautocratic people in WHO & WEF. We all should to make an effort to think with our hearts as our brains are way too logical and is easily manipulated by propaganda and beliefs that have no basis or sense.
He’s an amazing artist. The eyes always look sad. But that could be my interpretation.
He does still paintings of many people.
They should all be cancelled and everyone who got convicted should be pardoned. The science never supported the draconian loss of liberty.
Well, that’s not true. While some scientific studies support the effectiveness of lockdowns in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, others raise questions about the evidence and limitations. The science is complex and multifaceted, and a nuanced understanding of lockdowns’ impact requires consideration of various factors and uncertainties.
It was an impossible question that the government had to answer, and whilst I don’t have any love lost for Boris, I don’t believe anyone would have been able to come out of the pandemic flawlessly.
There is no virus proven to exist in real life. Despite many experiments, contagion has also never been proven to exist. Thherefore, “pandemics” cannot happen.
What a bizarrely unhinged thing to say, Sarah.
Karia, R., Gupta, I., Khandait, H., Yadav, A. and Yadav, A., 2020. COVID-19 and its modes of transmission. SN comprehensive clinical medicine, 2(10), pp.1798-1801.