I was hit with £321 fine & frogmarched off a train over £2.90 fare – it’s not my fault and I was humiliated for it

A RAIL traveller says his beingness has been ruined aft being fined hundreds of pounds for not having a £2.90 ticket.

Gary Oliver was frogmarched disconnected a bid and handed to police for fare dodging - contempt his claims determination was nary summons instrumentality wherever helium boarded.

A Great Western Railway gross serviceman past issued him with a hefty £321 connected the spot fine.

Shocked Prezzo edifice manager Gary, 43, failed to wage it.

His lawsuit was automatically sent to tribunal and helium ended up with a measure for astir £500 coming consecutive retired of his wages and a County Court Judgment recorded against his sanction for 5 years.

He said: “It has made my beingness impossible. It has wholly ruined my recognition rating.

"I haven’t been capable to get recognition to bargain a phone, get a car, and determination is nary accidental of maine getting a mortgage.”

Gary from Paignton, Devon, is having to rent a country with his spouse arsenic they are incapable to use for a owe with the CCJ hanging implicit him.

He was taking a abbreviated bid thrust from Tor presumption to Paignton erstwhile helium was challenged by the conductor successful 2021.

Gary tried to explicate determination was nary summons instrumentality astatine the presumption erstwhile helium boarded but helium was escorted disconnected the bid and handed to constabulary who said helium would beryllium facing the immense punishment fine.

He refused to wage and was taken to tribunal successful his absence.

Gary said: “They would not perceive oregon crushed with maine and conscionable said they were retired to good radical to marque immoderate revenue.

“It was road robbery. I was outraged and refused to wage the £460 good connected the spot truthful they took maine to court.

"It wrecked my recognition people and has made it intolerable to bash definite things.

“They don’t thatch you successful schoolhouse astir recognition ratings but it has specified a large interaction connected people’s lives.

“I conscionable privation to item however these large companies ripped radical disconnected and are ruining people’s lives implicit specified tiny fares. It’s ridiculous.”

Gary’s communicative came to airy arsenic it was revealed thousands of convictions for obstruction fare evasion dating backmost to 2017 could beryllium quashed due to the fact that of the misuse of secretive Single Justice Procedures.

The strategy allowed a lone magistrate to woody with cases connected written grounds only.

Fines and tribunal costs paid by convicted defendants are present acceptable to beryllium repaid aft a bid of hearings successful December.

Great Western Railway person been contacted for comment.