>>it does make it seem that there is one rule for the rich and another for everyone else!?
OR one rule for the big-time thief and one for the rest.
One imagines the train operator would only have managed to get him for that day's fare plus a fine. The additional 42k through an out-of-court settlement made the non-prosecution route worthwhile.
Wonder how they caught him though. Usually you'd expect he'd have just coughed up the standard twice-the-full-fare for travelling without a ticket.
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