Hi everyone, I’m looking for help and advice for an incident that happened on the 3rd March.
First of all I know this was very wrong, I regret my actions and will never do it again.
I was caught on the bus by an inspector for not using a correct Oyster card. I had stupidly been using an 11-15 year old Oyster card that I had found on the floor (I am 20) for about a month. I regret this idiotic decision massively.
He took my details and said tfl would later contact me.
I received my first letter around April time allowing me the chance to explain myself which I did, saying I didn’t understand the severity of using someone else’s card as long as I was paying for it myself. But explained how I understand it was wrong and I showed a great deal of remorse.
Today roughly 4 months later I received a very long letter that included a court summons for November. This is what it said on the letter
Contrary to Regulation 7(1)(b) of the Pubic Service Vehicles (conduct of Drivers, Inspectors, Conductors & Passengers) Regulations 1990 SI NO. 1020 and ocntrary to Section 25(3) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981.
The letter also included these two statements
“If you plead guilty in person and are found guilty of any offences with which you have been charged you can, before any sentence is passed, admit all or any of the matters in the attached schedule and ask the court to take them into consideration. This in turn will result in not been subsequently charged with any of the matters”
“You must attend court in person to confirm that you do not wish to be prosecuted for those offences and that you were the person that made those journeys”
So does this suggest I won’t have any criminal convictions??
I have to pay 238 in reimbursing tfl and 375 in court fees. As I’m a student will this likely be reduced
From reading other forums it usually says that you pay the fine and also get a record that is usually spent after 12 months. Could someone share some light on this please?
I am currently a medical school student so having a form of conviction is incredibly worrying. And from what the letter says, does it look like I’m not going to get a conviction at all if I plead guilty?
I would also like to know if there is any point writing back trying to arrange an out of court settlement even though in my original response I did offer to pay money to avoid this going to court which they ignored.
The main question is, from what the letter says, does it look promising about not getting a conviction if I plead guilty??
Any help and advice would be massively appreciated.
First of all I know this was very wrong, I regret my actions and will never do it again.
I was caught on the bus by an inspector for not using a correct Oyster card. I had stupidly been using an 11-15 year old Oyster card that I had found on the floor (I am 20) for about a month. I regret this idiotic decision massively.
He took my details and said tfl would later contact me.
I received my first letter around April time allowing me the chance to explain myself which I did, saying I didn’t understand the severity of using someone else’s card as long as I was paying for it myself. But explained how I understand it was wrong and I showed a great deal of remorse.
Today roughly 4 months later I received a very long letter that included a court summons for November. This is what it said on the letter
Contrary to Regulation 7(1)(b) of the Pubic Service Vehicles (conduct of Drivers, Inspectors, Conductors & Passengers) Regulations 1990 SI NO. 1020 and ocntrary to Section 25(3) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981.
The letter also included these two statements
“If you plead guilty in person and are found guilty of any offences with which you have been charged you can, before any sentence is passed, admit all or any of the matters in the attached schedule and ask the court to take them into consideration. This in turn will result in not been subsequently charged with any of the matters”
“You must attend court in person to confirm that you do not wish to be prosecuted for those offences and that you were the person that made those journeys”
So does this suggest I won’t have any criminal convictions??
I have to pay 238 in reimbursing tfl and 375 in court fees. As I’m a student will this likely be reduced
From reading other forums it usually says that you pay the fine and also get a record that is usually spent after 12 months. Could someone share some light on this please?
I am currently a medical school student so having a form of conviction is incredibly worrying. And from what the letter says, does it look like I’m not going to get a conviction at all if I plead guilty?
I would also like to know if there is any point writing back trying to arrange an out of court settlement even though in my original response I did offer to pay money to avoid this going to court which they ignored.
The main question is, from what the letter says, does it look promising about not getting a conviction if I plead guilty??
Any help and advice would be massively appreciated.
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