An MP who travelled by train from London to Scotland after testing positive for COVID-19 has avoided a jail sentence and been ordered to do 270 hours of community service.
On Tuesday a judge at Glasgow Sheriff Court told Margaret Ferrier, 62, she had “wilfully ignored” the rules but he felt it was inappropriate to send her to jail.
Last month Ferrier admitted culpably and recklessly exposing the public “to the risk of infection, illness and death” by travelling in September 2020, at the height of the pandemic, after testing positive for the virus.
Ferrier was elected as an SNP MP in December 2019 but has had the whip withdrawn and has been urged by Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to “do the right thing” and resign….