Breaking…a sweat! Moment fitness instructor’s online class is interrupted by three police officers who were wrongly tipped off she was breaching Covid rules at gym
- Louise Lewis had disco lights and music on at her exercise studio in north Wales
- Ms Lewis, 40, heard banging on the door and went to check who was there
- Three police officers arrived to investigate a tip off she was breaking Covid rules
A fitness instructor’s online class was interrupted by three police officers who were given an incorrect tip off saying she was breaking coronavirus restrictions.
Louise Lewis, 40, had disco lights and loud music on at her Aspire Fitness Studio at Rhos on Sea, north Wales, when she heard banging on the door.
Ms Lewis stopped the music and went to check who was there, and was relieved to see it was three policewomen.
Louise Lewis, 40, had disco lights and was playing loud music at her Aspire Fitness Studio at Rhos on Sea, North Wales, when there was banging on the door
Three policewomen turned up after a complaint that the fitness instructor could have been breaking Covid rules
The officers were probing a complaint that Ms Lewis may have been breaking Covid rules, but she let them inside to see an empty workout area.
Ms Lewis said: ‘I haven’t broken any rules because all my classes are online. I was happy that they were there, proved that I was doing things correctly.’
Louise added: ‘The girls were online, I was minding my own business and the banging happened. It freaked me out. When I went outside to see who it was I was so relieved it was the police.
‘We have to abide by the regulations to keep our businesses afloat.. It’s really sad, I have lost a lot of business, but I am keeping going doing as much as I can with my online classes.’
Louise added: ‘The girls were online, I was minding my own business and the banging happened. It freaked me out. When I went outside to see who it was I was so relieved it was the police’
It comes after police revealed some of the ‘stupid’ excuses people have given for breaking lockdown rules.
Other reasons given to Dorset Police include someone who moved to their second home in rural Dorset from London ‘because the internet is better’.
One excuse for travelling to Dorset was ‘the sea air is better for them’.
Another person was stopped while they were going out for a drive ‘because they were bored’.
Also a crowd of 19 people decided to hold a house party in Bournemouth.
Dorset chief constable James Vaughan said all 19, including one attendee wearing a party hat, would be fined.
‘If people are having parties, we will deal with that,’ he said.
‘We have Covid patrols out, we are receiving 400 reports of breaches a week and we are dealing with the most serious ones first.
‘People aren’t getting away with it because people are phoning the police and telling us about it.
‘We have dedicated Covid patrols in the county responding and that will continue for the foreseeable future.’