A WOMAN appeared in court for organising a “beach boogie” during the lockdown.

Police were called to St Leonards seafront after Deborah Cutting tried to host an illegal dance gathering.

The 54-year-old admitted breaching the Coronavirus Act when she appeared before Brighton Magistrates’ Court.

She “refused to cease and leave the area” the court was told, and then “refused to give personal details in order for the matter to be dealt with by other means”.

Cutting, of Bexhill Road, St Leonards, had organised an event called “Boogie on the Beach”.

It is not the first gathering that police have been called to during the Covid-19 lockdown in Sussex.

Earlier The Argus reported on how a London music producer was caught and fined £10,000 for making a video at a multi-storey car park in Eastbourne.

Officers had arrived at the site in Trinity Place to find 30 people without masks and not socially distancing using equipment to make the video.

Meanwhile visitors inside a restaurant in Forest Row, Sussex, were caught trying to run away or hide under tables when police passed the premises.

A £1,000 fine was issued to the bar and restaurant owner.

It comes as the UK death toll from Covid-19 has now passed 100,000.

Magistrate Barbara Dart fined Cutting £80, with a £34 surcharge and £85 costs.