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Magistrates fined over jailings

Friday 14 May 1999 00:02 BST
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Magistrates fined over jailings

MAGISTRATES WERE personally fined up to pounds 3,000 after they wrongly jailed a 70-year-old woman and a young mother. Mr Justice Collins in the High Court condemned the Doncaster magistrates yesterday for sending the women to prison for failing to pay council tax arrears.

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