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Yet the homeless sleeping rough in Windsor could be fined up to £100 under proposed measures to reduce the visibility of homelessness in the borough ahead of the royal wedding. Windsor and Maidenhead Council wants to ban people from begging and from leaving their belongings, including their bedding, “unattended” on the street TO reduce rough sleepers by 50 per cent by the end of March, ahead of the royal wedding at Windsor Castle on 19 May.
Windsor council leader Simon Dudley demanded police use legal powers to clear the area of those sleeping rough, claiming homeless people chose to sleep on the streets. The homeless will be issued with a Community Protection Notice requiring them to attend council services or face a fine of up to £100. The fine will be cut to £50 for early payment, but offenders could face a summary conviction and a £1,000 fine if they do not pay. The council said the measures were needed to tackle what it called “aggressive or proactive begging” such as begging near a cash machine or in a manner “reasonably perceived to be intimidating or aggressive”.
Murphy James, from the Windsor Homeless Project, was sceptical of the plans or how the council proposed to fine someone “who quite evidently, has no money”. He told the BBC: “Criminalise real criminals, not those that are forced into a situation by circumstance and left to survive. That is quite simply inhumane.”
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