article_snippet.sent: After the unnamed family, of Hullbridge, Essex, appealed unsuccessfully against a £1,230 fine and, after they did not pay, court bailiffs visited on March 6 demanding £1,230.
article_snippet.sent: The boy’s grandmother, from Benfleet, Essex, paid up to stop the bailiffs taking property to cover the amount owed.
article_snippet.sent: The grandmother, who asked not to be named, said: ‘The bailiff informed me that if the eye-watering fine of £1,230 wasn’t paid immediately the eye-watering fine of £1,230 wasn’t paid immediately would force entry.
article_snippet.sent: ’ the eye-watering fine of £1,230
article_snippet.sent: wasn’t paid immediately told her goods would be sold to cover £3,500 for the fine and charges and the parents would be jailed for three months.
highlights_snippet.sent: Originally fined £120 for the absence from Sweyne Park School in Essex .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Unsuccessfully appealed the decision but parents still refused to pay .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Grandmother paid the bailiffs and said it was a 'sober warning to others' 