IT expert forged railway tickets (BBC News)
 

An IT consultant who created forged rail tickets on his computer for more than two years is given a suspended sentence.

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I always wonder what would happen if you accidently unloaded blank tickets from an Avantix machine or something.

They'd be easy to forge that way.

WHAT a farce his Sentence is? As for his resignation from his job, had I been his employer, I would have REFUSED to accept it and SACKED him first. That was nothing short of THEFT. I now most sincerely hope he NEVER gets another job in his life.

two years how did they catch him? and yes it is most certainly theft who would want a thief working for them only other crooks i reckon

I now most sincerely hope he NEVER gets another job in his life.[/QUOTE]

Cool, What a thought,

The hard working tax payer then has to keep him:eek: .

As you say it was theft. He should be made to pay the full fare for all the rail journeys made on false tickets he created. If they can work that bit out.

Les

Chop off his hand like the Saudi's do, make an example of him. We are to soft in this country

I think we should get TOUGH on other crimes first, particularly drug , violence and sex related crimes.

He may be a criminal but he has not endangered anyone or ruined a life like so many other bastards.

There are an awfull lot more who are a real menace to society !! Don't get me wrong, I don't condone what he did but get tough on the nasty guys (and gals) first please.


Philip

HEAR, HEAR!

What I don't get is why would this guy be posessed to do this in the first place. He had a decent job, which I suspect had a good salary, he is an educated person and has everything going for him, now he has got nothing over trying to save a few quid on train fares.

I agree that there is a bit of tension with this, as to be honest, most train fares are a rip off but was this guy in any position to risk everything he had to save on travel?

Oh, and yes, after his ticket was checked on tha train, the conductor then walked passed a bunch of drunk youths threatening othe rpassengers and didn't bat an eyelid ;) .

I take it you were there and would have had a go at the Drunk youths first, then feeling 100% Brave?

Sometimes i catch the bus to St Austell at Bugle a young chap gets on the bus to St Austell rail station then we catch the train he goes right into the toilet i dont know where he goes to i get out at Par about 5 min away this has happened about six times now each time i tell the conductor these people really piss me off.
ccmmick.

Bramley man has a good point would you as a gaurd confront drunken youths who are more than likely carying weapons and have no problems about stabbing someone, regardless of who.I was on the Midland travelling to St Pancras when six youths were throwing 2pence pieces at people no one confronted them ,they didnt pay they jumped over the barrier at Bedord 7am and drunk or drugged.nobody was hurt.

Absolutely not. Would be daft for anyone (including conductors) onboard to take on a group of threatening people that could posess guns or anything, if anything, the couductor could call control or any station staff or BTP, so that they could board the train at the next stopping point, and go after the troublemakers. Of course, tell that to the managers of those mega stores (Tesco!) that think it is right to sell off bottles load of cheap alcohol to these sort of people in the first place. It's not as if anyone on the train is going to be in the posession of stun guns or things that could take down these people without everyone being indanger.

But then I seem to come across these 'doormen' type security staff that seem to innocent passengers and think that is fair but I highly doubt they would do the same for actual yobs.

The law system in this country is rubbish.
I mean in an asault, you cannot even defend yourself or you could risk prison.
Same with burglary you cant defend your property.
Some of these laws encourage crime!