On Friday, 2 October 2015 16:04:38 UTC+1, wrote:
On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:58:38 +0100
e27002 aurora wrote:
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 06:16:58 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
wrote:

The fare dodger was described as a barrister but he was also given the title
Dr. He must be very clever!

Perhaps he has a PhD in Law? Or, he may have studied multiple
disciplines.

He was certainly smart enough to scam the idiotic Oyster system. You have to
hand it to the guy - he saved himself 20K. The only reason he was caught is
because he handed himself in. I doubt they'd have bothered to trace him
otherwise - after all, at the time as far as they were concerned he'd simply
been charged maximum fare for not touching in.

It wasn't REALLY 20,000£, as the judge spotted. Chiltern, as they are entitled to, were basing the fare avoided on a standard return fare for every journey. The eventual comp was based, more realistically, on the amount evaded if weekly tickets were involved.