The owner of The George gets a seven-month suspended prison term for hosting a 'secret' New Year's Eve party in Perth's CBD that breached strict COVID rules.
The owner of a Perth bar has failed to convince a magistrate he should receive a fine for hosting a "hidden" New Year's Eve party in breach of strict COVID rules that were in place to contain an outbreak of the virus.
Magistrate Heath accepted that Parihar was not the organiser of the event and that he had made several announcements on the night to try to get patrons to comply with the COVID requirements. However, he said Parihar had permitted the event to happen at a time when other New Years' Eve functions had been cancelled.
Magistrate Heath said the event could have aided the transmission of the virus and Parihar had an obligation to act decisively to prevent that. Parihar, who pleaded guilty to two charges, was given a seven-month jail term, but it was suspended for 12 months.
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