5year Old Fined For Not Attending Friend's Birthday!

A five-year-old boy has been charged
with £15 and his parents reportedly
threatened with court action after he
failed to go to a friend’s birthday party.


Alex Nash, from Plymouth, was verbally
invited to a school-friend’s birthday
party on a dry-ski slope, but when he
decided not to attend – instead
spending the day with his grandparents
– his parents apparently had no means
of contacting the mother who organised
the party.


In the days following they attempted to
apologise – until their son returned
home with a brown envelope and a ‘no
show fee’ invoice for £15.95 in his bag,
the Plymouth Herald discovered.


“I thought it was a
joke to begin with,”
Alex’s father Derek Nash told the
Plymouth Herald.

The brown envelope containing the
invoice had been slipped into the
child’s bag as he left school, via a
teacher it is claimed.


Mr Nash, who works as a delivery
driver, said he “couldn’t believe” the
manner in which the money had been
requested, although he emphasised that
he understood the need to recoup the
cost.


Alex has also claimed his former friend
at Torpoint Nursery and Infant School
will no longer play with him.