The legislation says it's up to the police if your action is reasonable. Police decided they could have walked closer to home. If they want, they can go to court and try and convince the magistrate/jury the police were wrong. I wish them luck (honestly).

The issue we have is we haven't enforced the very important stuff. So now we're fucked. So now we have to enforce the lot, even if this particular event (2 people arriving separately etc) seems small.

As far as I'm concerned, the more people see enforcement, the more lives will be saved. So it's a good thing whether either of these women actually transmitted and actual covid etc...