Man rages over joke Merseyrail fine after he was caught with wrong ticket
Patrick St John Murphy was travelling on the Wirral Line when he was stopped by Merseyrail guards
12:08, 5 MAY 2021
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A man who boarded a Merseyrail train with the wrong ticket has now been ordered to pay almost sixty times his fare. The case of Patrick St John Murphy was heard at Sefton Magistrates Court yesterday The 28-year-old, of Knowsley Road, Aigburth, was travelling on the Wirral Line on September 29, 2019, when a train guard asked to see his ticket.
He produced a Day Saver pass which was invalid for the area he was travelling in, and when staff challenged him he was said to have become verbally abusive .
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