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Yes, the offence being charged is a strict liability offence. This means the offence is committed if the prohibited acts or omissions happen, regardless of the offender's state of mind at the time, and whether or not the offender intended to commit the offence is irrelevant.

It won't, assuming any fine is paid in accordance with the order of the magistrates.

Fines aren't issued on trains. What exactly have you received? An unpaid fare notice? Do you hold a valid 16-25 Railcard? There is provision to be let off, once a year, for "forgotten Railcards".

What was meant to happen was one registration with photo and fingerprints, then either photo or fingerprints checked at subsequent trips. But it seems to be highly inconsistent.

You can try to make pleas in mitigation as to why you should not be punished harshly. You cannot (having already pleaded guilty) turn around and say you didn't do it. As TfL will claim compensation for the avoided fares, the court will give you two choices: 1) Pay in full within 7 days (you...

Not this specific one, but there are quite a range of short commuter runs with advance fares, particularly in Northern-land.

How does this work with station-issued Railcards, which have non-unique 5-digit numbers?

It seems that way.

Did you travel from Vauxhall, or from somewhere else? If you travelled from Vauxhall, did you scan your ticket at the ticket gates to enter Vauxhall station?

Southeastern doesn't offer season tickets by automatic payment. So you must have intentionally renewed a short ticket. How did you get through the ticket gates at Abbey Wood without a ticket? Or did you continue by Elizabeth line? Southeastern will be wanting payment for all of the fares...

You have to tap in for every journey even if you've reached the cap.

Fully operative at Turin airport recently. On arrival, all passengers liable to EES were sent to the registration machines and thereafter to their choice of staffed counter or automatic gates, with a stamp afterwards for the latter. On departure, one manual desk was operative for all passports...

0870 numbers aren't included in a lot of phone plans. To call one, depending on your network, you may need to pay money into your account to cover it, or contact your network to enable 0870 calls.

This. Then as mentioned above, make six copies of the documents. Three for the magistrates, one for the legal adviser, one for the prosecutor and one spare for yourself.

This is going to be the core question. If the OP's "friend" cannot do this, the assumption will be made that all the tickets purchased with a discount were used improperly.

Iceland is quite the detour and there aren't year-round flights from the UK to Faroe Islands.

I wouldn't be sure that this will be possible.

you should be able to

It doesn't. A WIP notice would be issued by Network Rail or Southeastern. It's just AI making stuff up, as it habitually does.

That would do it.