Fare dodger to pay nearly £500 over £4.40 ticket

Tony Wareham was stopped at Slough train station in February

A man who failed to pay his £4.40 train fare will now need to pay nearly £500 after he was caught.

Tony Wareham, 44, from Slough, was found without a ticket at the railway station in the Berkshire town on 10 February.

He was found guilty of not paying the fare in his absence at Reading Magistrates' Court on 23 May.

Wareham was fined £220 and ordered to pay costs of £180, a victim surcharge of £88 and compensation of £4.40 – a total of £492.40.