Fast-track courts unlawfully convict thousands of fare evasion
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/prosecution-courts-fare-evasion-northern-rail-single-justice-procedure-b1164191.html
Posted by Fox_9810
Fast-track courts unlawfully convict thousands of fare evasion
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/prosecution-courts-fare-evasion-northern-rail-single-justice-procedure-b1164191.html
Posted by Fox_9810
3 Comments
Rail company’s _love_ to call their customers scum but really it’s stories like this that should make your blood boil.
From prosecuting children as young as thirteen with fraud, to calling anyone with their foot on a metal rail a molester to this. Rail company’s need be turned upside down.
Every time I post about the post office and private prosecutions I’m told I’m throwing the baby out with the bathwater – but I’m not. It’s scum like this that are the reason we need to end private prosecutions.
Im surprised they do prosecute. Ive been on trains where people dont have the right ticket, or even no ticket and the conductor person just lets them off
There not paid enough to issue a fine and risk abuse and why should they really care
Maybe its a northern thing tho
Tristan Kirk the author of this article has been writing about this for a while and very recently won the Paul Foot award for his investigative journalism on the subject of the Single Justice Procedure.