A teenager’s wrongful conviction for flouting coronavirus lockdown laws has been quashed thanks to a regional daily’s coverage of the case. Lewis Brown had his conviction for “failing to comply with a direction imposed under the Coronavirus Act” overturned after civil liberties group Big Brother Watch read a report of the hearing by the Oxford Mail. But the convitction has now been set aside after an investigation by Big Brother Watch revealed Mr Brown had been charged under the wrong law. The group contacted Mail court reporter Will Walker about the hearing prior to launching its probe, which found the correct charge should have been brought under the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020. The court heard Mr Brown had initially left that address earlier in order to give his vulnerable mother money.