PEOPLE from Bradford have been fined in court for dodging rail fares.

The following people from the district were caught having made train journeys across Yorkshire, London and the North West of England. One was from outside Bradford but on a journey involving a city station.

Nobuntu Sunduza, 42, of Melton Terrace, Bradford, was fined £220, ordered to pay £135 costs, £13.70 compensation and a £34 victim surcharge for boarding a train in non-compulsory ticket area without a valid ticket - railway bye-law, at London Bridge on October 2, 2021.

Sunduza was sentenced at North East London Magistrates’ Court on April 11, 2022.

Thomas Hossein, 28, of Errwood Road, Manchester, was fined £220, ordered to pay £150 costs, a £34 victim surcharge and £15.30 compensation for failing to produce/deliver rail ticket on request/give name and address, on a rail journey between Bradford Interchange and Manchester Victoria on October 20, 2021.

Hossein was sentenced at Greater Manchester & Salford Magistrates’ Court on April 1, 2022.

Matthew Mitchel, 29, of New Works Road, Bradford, was fined £220, ordered to pay £150 costs, £34 victim surcharge and £4 compensation for travelling on railway without paying fare between Halifax and Huddersfield on August 23, 2021.

The case was proved in absence at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court on March 21, 2022