A man has pleaded guilty to breaking Covid rules after he threw a boat party during the pandemic. Jordy Nicholas Van Duijvenbode, 31 (19.07.89), of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at Stratford Magistrates’ Court on Friday 30 April, after approximately 30 people gathered for a party on a house boat in Hackney. Police received several calls in the early hours of Saturday, 13 February to reports of a large number of people playing music on a boat on the River Lea between Tottenham Lock and Hackney. Officers responded and located the boat off Hackney Marshes at approximately 04:20hrs.