A SHIPLEY woman has appeared in court charged with failing to provide passenger information on her locator form on arrival in England.

Wardah Ali, 37, of Nabwood Grove, landed at Manchester Airport on March 3, 2021, from outside the common travel area, namely Qatar. She failed, without reasonable excuse, to provide passenger information on her locator form on arrival.

This was contrary to regulations 3 and 6(1)(a) and (4) of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020.

Ali was fined £653 and ordered to pay a £65 victim surcharge and £90 costs for the offence.

She pleaded guilty to the charge when she was sentenced at Greater Manchester Magistrates' Court on February 28.

The time-consuming passenger locator forms require people to fill in travel details, their address in the UK and vaccination status were scrapped by the UK Government from March 18, 2022.

The locator forms had been used to track people after outbreaks of the virus.