A MILFORD Haven man has been ordered to pay almost £200 after skipping a £7.90 railway fare.
Dale Brown, 38, of Meyler Crescent in Milford Haven, travelled on a South Eastern Trains journey on November 7.
At Chatham station in Kent, he was found to have not paid the £7.90 fare.
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Brown pleaded guilty on May 21 to a charge of travelling on a railway without paying a fare.
Medway Magistrates’ Court ordered Brown to pay a £40 fine, costs of £150, and compensation of £7.90. This totalled more than 25 times the amount he would’ve paid for his fare.
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