FARE DODGER: She has been ordered to pay over £800. (Image: Martini Archive)
A WORCESTER woman has been ordered to pay over £800 for dodging a £50.45 train ticket.
Faye Brown, 50, travelled from Honeybourne Station on a Great Western Railway train without paying the fare of £50.45 on August 4 2022.
Brown, of Heron Close, Lower Wick, was deemed to have avoided paying for the fare with intent.
The case was proved in her absence at Worcester Magistrates' Court on February 17 2023.
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She was fined £440 and was made to pay compensation of £50.45.
Brown was also made to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £176 and costs of £180.
She has until March 17 to pay the total balance of £846.45.
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