A court in Guernsey - the Channel Island with which the Isle of Man has an ’airbridge’ - has punished men for breaking quarantine rules.
Two ’penniless’ English workers are facing months in a Guernsey jail after being fined £9,000 for breaking their self-isolation by going to the pub.
Georgie Phillips, 28, and Mark Paul Dillon, 31, pleaded guilty to flouting the island’s mandatory two-week quarantine period for overseas travellers.
Terence Jones, aged 56, returned to the island’s capital, St Peter Port, after visiting Southampton for medical treatment.
He promised the airport’s customs officer he would obey the quarantine.
But at 5pm, the official saw Jones smoking outside the Britannia pub and later went inside to find the drinker having his second pint of beer.
He was fined.
People can travel between Guernsey and the Isle of Man without going into quarantine after the governments signed up to an agreement because neither island has any active cases of coronavirus.