Kate Langbroek talks about being stopped by Italian police during the coronavirus lockdown

Kate Langbroek and her husband Peter Lewis are developing quite the reputation with the police in Bologna.

Appearing on The Project on Thursday, the 54-year-old radio host revealed she had been stopped by police during a recent outing to buy Easter eggs for her children. 

It comes just two weeks after she revealed her husband of 17 years was being sued by the city for breaking lockdown rules during the coronavirus pandemic.

Kate said she had stopped to take a photo of the statue Neptune during their outing, when the police pulled up and began to question her husband. 

‘I took a photo of it, and when I turned around, Peter had been stopped by this car full of cops, who had driven past and done a U-turn the other way,’ she recounted. 

‘And because he’s still a bit gun shy from his encounter with them last time on the bicycle, he was very sheepish.’

While Peter backed away from the police officers, Kate said she decided to stand up to them, explaining that she had four children to feed and needed help lugging her groceries back home. 

‘I was quite aggressive… Also, I’d been day-drinking. Slightly. We’d been at a Zoom party, you know what happens,’ she laughed. 

‘So, I was quite aggressive, and it actually turned out to be not a bad strategy with the police, because I had the righteous anger of a mother going out to find precious eggs, when eggs are hard to find.’

Kate said she told them in no uncertain terms that she was going out, before turning her back on them and walking away.  

‘Then they called me back, asked our address, which is only about 300 metres from where we were standing, and then they basically let me go. But Peter sheepishly went, “Oh, I’ll go home,”‘ she laughed. 

The Project’s Peter Helliar jokingly suggested that she should wait until she was safely back home to start drinking, prompting Kate to tell him that anything goes during lockdown.