Barrister avoids prison for dodging £20k in rail fares

A barrister who dodged paying almost £20,000 (€27,000) in rail fares for more than two and a half years has been spared a trip to prison.

Peter Barnett made hundreds of journeys from his home in Oxford to London’s Marylebone station without buying tickets.

Instead he pretended to have only travelled from Wembley, north west London, paying just for the short trips in the capital.