He has been told he is going to prison, it is inevitable, was going to sentence him on Thursday but has given a week adjournment for him to sort out his matters and put things in place. 6 months is the starting point plus the suspended on top

Think you have got off lightly then, looks like you are being brought before the court on railway byelaws then rather than fraud. firstclass or OldCJA will be better placed to advise

It all depends on whether you plead guilty or not and what the charge is, can you elaborate?

Yep they did

Sorry guys for failing to update, he was charged under Section 6 of the Fraud Act - Possession of articles for use in fraud (Section 6) The defendant: had possession or control of; an article; for use in the course of or in connection with any fraud. He is on trial this thursday and will be defending on the basis he was unaware it was a counterfeit ticket as he did not know and therefore how can he be intending to use a article in the course or connection with a fraud

Unfortunately as I have since found out tickets are not transferable and should only be bought from designated outlets, like the station, ticket off or online through certified agents.

Hey Honeybee, He was charged under Section 6 of the Fraud act - Possession of articles for use in fraud (Section 6) The defendant: had possession or control of; an article; for use in the course of or in connection with any fraud. He has pleaded not guilty and is in crown court this Thursday for his trial. He is defending it on the bases that he did not know it was a fraudulent ticket and therefore could not have been in use of it in the course of or connection of fraud.

I think people miss what the OP has said. As domain admins it means people have access to everything on the network, it is unlikely these have been put here by a flash drive or via torrent or similar but more likely the outgoing person has placed these on there by way of mapping a drive to the OP's machine. OP as a domain admin then surely you should know what to be asking the investigative panel to do. As you were unaware of these files on your machine then this means that you would not have access them under your own account., Therefore as them to check the date these files were added, also ask them to check who the NTFS owner is of these files and directories, if he did copy them over then his login will be attribiuted to the files and exonerate you. It will also highlight that contractors should have their domain access rescinded a few weeks before end of contract as I have always had when finishing up contracts.

Just waiting now HB

Thanks HB and thanks also with regards to the contents, I will await the further contact details. I do have a normal account on here and have contributed to the forums many times in the past but using this pseudo name due tot his issue at hand. Thanks Old-CodJA for this and the other.

Hi firstclassx, in answer to your questions: 1. £approx 600 dont want to say exactly as it might be identifiable on a public board 2. In this case 7 working days 3. approx 12% less than face value basically got about £80 off. Thing is we cannot provide much information on the source because of the way it was obtained, all we have is an email address for any further discounted tickets. I think they might involve BTP purely like you and Old_CodJA have said they will want to get to the source and explore all avenues and wont have the resources to deal with doing that. So you are advocating that he get in touch with the TOC?

Yeah will get onto it, nothing to lose

Thanks Rebel thats a great shout but if the police get involved wont they do that anyway? I also fear if they wait the 40 days for a response the investigation would be complete already by then and wont be worth it

Thanks Old-CodJA, unfortunately it was a case it was bought of the internet, the advert was on gumtree of which I cannot find now and they spoke to the guy who was polish and met him at liverpool street stn and gave him the money when he could see to an unormal trained eye that it looked fine as the same as the ones he was purchasing before. he has the email address of the person but he has not emailed him as yet about this.

Hey bankfodder, Suspeneded was imposed last year in Sept with 150 hours unpaid and compensation order £1200, both completed. When I say colourful it is like a who's who of offences and many are dishonest. Do not hink this will end well, all knotted up inside.

I have googled the hell out of it and cannot find any matches, I have used all connotations and the partner no longer has the link. Even tried wayback machine and cached but to no avail.. Yep am au fait with giumtree, wouldnt buy a 1p piece off of there

Hi rebel, been a while since I been on didnt realise you have been made up to site team, congrats. The TOC is EC and yes would be dying here to settle out of court but I fear this is somewhat a bit more serious than borrowing someone elses ticket or altering it. The ticket I am told was bought via gumtree by him and his mate and had to be paid for in bitcoins, which I have since googled.

Posting under a Pseudo, hope firstclassx, Old-CodJA and others are able to help. Partner has foolishly bought a counterfeit season ticket for not much less than the real price, he was stopped last Friday by a eagle eyed ticket inspector and turns out that it is fake. BTP were called but before they arrested him on fraud the ticket man said he would like it dealt with by way of going on by himself and not being arrested there and then as they would like to conduct further internal investigations and as long as BTP confirmed the identity he was happy with that. Partner told me about this last night and I am mortified, he is currently on a suspended sentence for an altercation earlier this year and I fear he will now activate that and as the only bread winner leave us with nothing losing his job as he will be sent to prison. I fear we will lose our house, our world, what a absolute idiot. He confirmed whilst on the phone that the ticket was not on the internal system but did relate to a valid ticket machine but none were sold at that exact time. Can you tell me what would be expected here? Would they pass it to BTP or would they contact me with what they have found? Would the charge be a byelaw or criminal? Would this be activated? I am in tears here.