[Article] Thats how you deal with fare evasion

[Colm Moore]

From the December 2009 edition of Today's Railway's Magazine.

Print your own man convicted

After a ticket inspector on a Bedford Brighton train noticed a slight variation in the colour of his ticket, IT expert Jonathan Moore (27) of Hove found himself at Brighton Crown Court pleading guilty to fraud charges arising out of forging 74 tickets and possessing 11 of the forgeries. He had been saving himself a considerable amount of money by producing his own Brighton London season tickets since 2006, but there was no evidence that he had sold any of the tickets to anyone else.

Moore was given a 9 month suspended prison sentence and a 240 hour unpaid work order (community service) on 2 October, besides having to pay £5 10 costs and repay the total £ 12 472 cost of the forged tickets.