A MAN who did not pay for £1.90 railway ticket has been fined hundreds of pounds.
Thomas Nightingale, of Dilmore Avenue, Fernhall Heath, travelled on a Great Western Railway service on June 9 this year.
After arriving at Worcester Foregate Street, from Worcester Shrub Hill, Nightingale was challenged by an inspector but could not produce a ticket.
Magistrates heard the 24-year-old "exercised his right to leave" when the inspector tried to interview him.
At the hearing of his case at Worcester Magistrates Court on December 16, Nightgale was fined £440 and ordered to pay £1.90 - the cost of the ticket.
He was also ordered to pay victim surcharge of £44 and court costs of £180 - a total of £665.90 owed to the courts.
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