On Sun, 02 May 2004 21:11:18 +0000, Richard J. wrote:

SJCWHUK wrote:
It all depends on whether you are permitted to enter the bus via
any door if you have a ticket that requires marking by the driver.

A travelcard holder may be permitted as they have a valid ticket.
If you have a single journey ticket that requires marking and you
enter by any door other than at the front and then fail to get it
done perhaps intent has been shown.

So how would you distinguish that from mere forgetfulness or being
distracted by other events? As far as I can see, intent has not been
demonstrated at all.

I suppose by getting on at the middle in the first place when you need to
go to the front. Unless the forgetting was that the perp had an elapsed
travelcard that they had forgotten to renew - which has happened to
me at the cost of a tenner - despite remembering on the journey and
offering to pay at the end gate - which is always gated so how I could
have been attempting to defraud? I even forget the penalty fare on the DLR
was a fiver - although how would you prove this at Bank station?