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Wrong railcard prosecution letter

SuspectUsual

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@olliec1234 the letter from the train company uses the word "incident" three times.

That's incident singular, not incidents plural.

Their letter is not asking you to comment on anything else, no matter what you may know you've done on other occasions.

I really would reply in respect only of the incident they mention, tell them you believe the matter is closed because you paid the penalty fare (and attach any proof of this you may have).

If they then write back saying "what about these other dates?" come back here, show us the letter, and you'll get great advice on your next step

If a policeman stopped you for doing 34 in a 30 just before you got home from a long trip, would you say "sorry officer, and by the way I was doing 90mph most of the time on the motorway and I jumped a red light on the dual carriageway"?
 
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olliec1234

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@olliec1234 the letter from the train company uses the word "incident" three times.

That's incident singular, not incidents plural.

Their letter is not asking you to comment on anything else, no matter what you may know you've done on other occasions.

I really would reply in respect only of the incident they mention, tell them you believe the matter is closed because you paid the penalty fare (and attach any proof of this you may have).

If they then write back saying "what about these other dates?" come back here, show us the letter, and you'll get great advice on your next step

If a policeman stopped you for doing 34 in a 30 just before you got home from a long trip, would you say "sorry officer, and by the way I was doing 90mph most of the time on the motorway and I jumped a red light on the dual carriageway"?
That makes a lot of sense thank you so much. Sorry for so much back and fourth here I’ve been very worried about it. I will come back when I know more
 
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Just to be clear, the letter asks you to "complete the necessary details on the following page of this letter, attaching any relevant information" - is there some sort of template there to fill in or anything to define what they consider to be 'necessary details'?
 

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