Hove 'IT consultant' travels on home-made forged tickets

[Bozza]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/02/computer-expert-forged-rail-tickets

An IT consultant who for more than two years used forged rail tickets on his daily commute into London was today given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay back the fares.

Karen Boswell, customer services director at First Capital Connect, paid tribute to the company's staff. "The audacity of this fraud beggars belief and it is a tribute to our quick-witted staff that this thief was caught out," she said.

 

[Nibble]

I was reading that and I am undecided if he is a hero or a dimwit? what say you?

 

[keaton]

It's says a lot about our trains when catching him after two years is 'quick-witted'

 

[dougdeep]

Was Ernest involved?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Hero.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Legend

 

[Lokki 7]

Thief.

 

[Ernest]

I don't know whats heroic about losing your job, getting a criminal record and having to pay every last penny you stolen back. More like f***ing stupid to me.

 

[Simster]

Quick-witted staff. Quality stuff. The only time FCC staff are "quick witted" is when they are on a massively overcrowded, late commuter train, and watch a passenger enter first class illegally to escape the suffocation. Only then are they normally "quick witted" enough to wander straight in, and fine the poor sod after sitting in the area for about 15 seconds.

 

[csider]

bit of both really. like a tryer though!

 

[Beach Hut]

Was Ernest involved?

Doubt it as he works for SR not FCC

 

[Lush]

Thief.

 

[Mendoza]

Why does he look like he is pitching to Dragons Den?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

f*** me..they should pay the customers for getting on their shitty trains...not the other way round.

Personally I think this IT consultant -who probably charges about a grand a day for his services- can't be all that if one of the train guards spotted the forgery.

Incidentally..how can thay prove he has been jibbing for 2 years unless he has admitted it?

 

[Gwylan]

That story was in the Argus about a month ago.


For once, the Argus was ahead of the pack

 

[Nibble]

Incidentally..how can thay prove he has been jibbing for 2 years unless he has admitted it?

They found his prototypes and templates on his PC

 

[Beach Hut]

Incidentally..how can thay prove he has been jibbing for 2 years unless he has admitted it?

Suspect either admission or the fact there was a wad of other forged tickets under the one he was caught travelling with ?

 

[captainmorganrum]

"Fare-dodgers like Moore are robbing the rail industry of £400m a year, money that could otherwise be invested in better services for the vast majority of law-abiding passengers who do pay for their rail ticket."

Ahem, or share dividends to already rich shareholders methinks.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Sounds like two years of sitting nervously on a train wondering when your number would be up. Not the most relaxing way to spend fifteen odd hours every week! Pretty crap forger if he didn't even bother getting the right type of card and colour match.

 

[Wozza]

That story was in the Argus about a month ago.

For once, the Argus was ahead of the pack

Today's story is about the sentencing.

"... was today given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay back the fares."