Hayden Brown, 53, from Great Yarmouth, has been jailed for 12 weeks for gluing the lock on a pop-up vaccination center. As a result, more than 500 people missed their appointment for the corona jab.
The Briton committed the offense on November 26 in the eastern coastal town of Gorleston. There, the owner of an online pharmacy had just rented a space to be able to offer corona shots to patients. But the glue that Perp Brown used was so strong that the door was impossible to open. The patients who showed up were confronted with a note on the window: ‘Due to repeated vandalism, unfortunately no vaccinations can be given today. The lock is glued shut and it is impossible to enter the center. Sorry for the inconvenience”.
The pharmacist, Waheedat Owodeyi, thinks the act is “really appalling”. She thinks the sentencing will “deter people with ideas like this because they now know they can’t get away with it,” she told the BBC.
Security cameras
It was the third time in a month that the vaccination center’s lock had been glued shut. The pharmacist therefore installed security cameras after the second ‘glue action’. That turned out to be a smart move. Because footage from those cameras captured Brown as he glued the lock shut. It led to his arrest last Tuesday. Brown admitted in court that he was only responsible for the most recent incident.
Meanwhile, the pharmacist is mainly concerned about her patients. Some informed her that they have not yet been able to make a new injection appointment. “That will be difficult because our vaccination center is fully booked until Christmas.” Owodeyi finds the whole situation very annoying: ,,It takes a lot of time and effort to fix things [het vaccinatiecentrum, red.] to set up. So if someone does something like this, it messes up plans for the whole day,” said the frustrated pharmacist.
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