A FAREDODGER faces a £126.80 bill because he did not pay a £6.80 fare for a train journey.

York magistrates heard that Arriva staff caught Kevin Ricky Tute, 19, on a train without a ticket near York on September 14.

Martin Butterworth, prosecuting for British Transport Police, said he had not paid the £6.80 fare for his journey.

Tute, of Cherry Avenue, Malton, pleaded guilty by letter to faredodging.

He was not in court.

Magistrates fined him £80 with £40 court costs and ordered him to pay £6.80 compensation to the train company.

Updated: 11:17 Saturday, January 11, 2003