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Police break up lockdown-flouting wedding with 400 guests

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LONDON – Police in London said Friday that they have broken up a wedding attended by 400 people — despite a nationwide lockdown that bars households from mixing.The venue was a school whose principal died from the coronavirus last year.The Metropolitan Police force said officers found hundreds of people packed into the north London school with blacked-out windows on Thursday night.

The force said that “following enquiries it was established that the group had gathered at the location for a wedding.”Weddings are allowed only in “exceptional circumstances” -- such as one partner being dangerously ill -- and with a maximum of six people attending.Police said the organizer could face a 10,000-pound ($13,600) fine, Many guests fled as police.

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