Abusive fare dodger on Hartlepool-Sunderland train faces hefty court bill

An abusive passenger who dodged a £10 rail fare is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket.
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John Boyle was caught travelling on a Grand Central service between Hartlepool and Sunderland railway stations without a valid ticket.

Magistrates were told how he also used threatening or abusive words or behaviour to another man during the journey.

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Boyle, 52, has now appeared before Teesside Magistrates’ Court, in Middlesbrough, to admit both charges.

Fare dodger John Boyle was abusive on a Grand Central service between Hartlepool and Sunderland.Fare dodger John Boyle was abusive on a Grand Central service between Hartlepool and Sunderland.
Fare dodger John Boyle was abusive on a Grand Central service between Hartlepool and Sunderland.

He received a 12-month conditional discharge for dodging the £10 fare and was ordered to pay £100 compensation, a £22 victim surcharge and £85 prosecution costs in connection with the threatening or abusive words offence.

Boyle, of Newport Court, Westminster, London, who must pay the £207 total by the end of May, received credit for his early guilty pleas.

The court was also told that he “had not been convicted of any offences for a number of years”.

The offences were committed on September 18 of last year.