thank you. It was optional anyway.

Hello @dx100uk I plead guilty in the court form online and there asked if I want to tell anything to the court like mitigating circumstances. I wrote the same reasons of the letter you wrote me and that I wish to attend court. Did I do wrong?

@dx100uk I don't know how to thank you. Really thank you very much.

@dx100uk thank you very much .

tfl_(1).pdf

@dx100ukthis are the letters tfl.pdf

@dx100uk now that I am thinking the day they stopped me It wasn't the same rout I used to take. And I have used my bank card to pay for my journies even those weeks. I am looking at my bank statements that days before I have used various time my bank card for my journeys too

@dx100uk I have used it to go to university and work. so yeah they would see the same time. @dx100uk and sorry again to keep bothering. Thank you for your help

@dx100uk thank you very much. It will be a huge help. Hi @dx100uk keep disturbing you but I really would appreciate your help with my letter. I’m trying to change it again but I’m starting to panic. Nothing that I write feels right. Please can you help me to paraphrase the paragraphs, I’m feeling desperate. Thank you.

@honeybee13 @dx100uk this I what i have now. Dear Sir, I write regarding the letter that I have received from you and concerning the occasion on when I was reported for travelling on your bus service on 17th January 2020 in Pembridge Road/ Kensington Park Road using another person not transferable zip card. First of all I want to make my most sincere apologies for my action in this case. I have always been a respectful citizen in every country I have lived in until now and I feel extremely shameful of my very poor judgment in this matter. I take full responsibility of my action and accept that I was in wrong. Like I have said to the Tfl police at the day of the accident I am an international student. When the event happened it was only four and half months that I was in England and foolishly I haven’t informed myself in regard of public transport regulation, like I did thoroughly after. However I want to clearly state this does not want to be an excuse for my offence, since I immediately understood how wrong I was, it only wants to be an explanation of my ignorance on the matter. I found that studying in London is not easy at all emotionally and economically too. I have a part-time job to maintain myself since my parents, which live in my country of origin, can’t help me much. Being short of money and away from home tarnished my thoughts and it turned that I took some poor decisions like using someone else’s card that day. I came here with the hope of a better future for myself and I cannot believe that I have jeopardized my dream with my stupidity, thus a criminal conviction will lead to a severe penalty on my visa. I am extremely sorry for what I have done and in a sign of my goodwill and that I have learned this important lesson I am attaching to this letter a pay as you go card and the statements of my bank card that I have used after and continue to use to pay for my journeys. Once again I wish to apologize to Tfl service and every member that have been affected of my foolish actions and offer to make immediate payment of the unpaid fare and all the reasonable costs that my actions have caused. Although I would understand if you want to go further in court with my case, I sincerely hope that you will accept my apologies and my offer to an out of court settlement. I would appreciate your consideration and I sincerely hope that you can show some leniency in this matter.

@honeybee13I understand. should I cut any paragraph?

@honeybee13 yeah thank you. Can I ask you your personal thought about the letter? Do I have any chances in your opinion to gain an OOC? I don't mind to pay any amount of money, I mean reasonable amount of money. I am happy to offer them all my savings only to not get the record. Should I offer them a sum or it will be worse?

hello @dx100uk thank you for your insight. I have stated that I will attach with this letter my bank statements since I have used my bank card for my journeys. Isn't this good? I don't know how to show it otherwise. I added what you suggested in the paragraph: In addition being a student away from my country in a city like London I found to be not easy at all emotionally and economically too. I have a part-time job to maintain myself since my parents, which live in my country of origin, can’t help me much. Being short of money and away from home tarnished my thoughts and it turned that I took some poor decisions like using someone else’s card that day. I came here with the hope of a better future for myself and I cannot believe that I have jeopardized my dream with my stupidity. hello @honeybee13 thank you I wrote it wrong. It meant to be 'months'

@BazzaS yes you are right. Thank you for appointing it. I am working on writing a letter by myself. Hi guys, I rewrote it. Please feel free to help me better it. @dx100uk @honeybee13 @BazzaS First of all I want to make my most sincere apologies for my action in this case. I have always been a respectful citizen in every country I have lived in until now and I feel extremely shameful of my very poor judgement in this matter. I take full responsibility of my action and accept that I was in wrong. Like I have said to the Tfl police at the day of the accident I am an international student. When the event happened it was only four and half moths that I was in England and foolishly I haven’t informed myself in regard of public transport regulation, like I did thoroughly after. However I want to clearly state this does not want to be an excuse for my offence, since I immediately understood how wrong I was, it only wants to be an explanation of my ignorance on the matter. In addition being an international student in a city like London is not very easy emotionally and economically too. I have a part-time job to maintain myself since my parents, which live in my country of origin, can’t help me much. I came here with the hope of a better future for myself and I cannot believe that I have jeopardised my dream with my stupidity. As an international student under Tier 4 Visa conditions if this matter were to escalate further into court, it would lead to severe penalty from Home Office in my case. A criminal conviction would be devastating and I am afraid I will lose the right to remain further in the country. I am extremely sorry for what I have done and in a sign of goodwill I am attaching to this letter the statement of my bank card and a pay as you go card that I have used after and continue to use to pay for my journeys. Once again I wish to apologise to Tfl service and every member that have been affected of my foolish actions and offer to make immediate payment of the unpaid fare and all the reasonable costs that my actions have caused. Although I would understand if you want to go further in court with my case, I sincerely hope that you will accept my apologies and my offer to an out of court settlement. I would appreciate your consideration and I sincerely hope that you can show some leniency in this matter.

@dx100uk my parents have paid for my tuition fee at uni and I have worked since I came for my maintenance because they couldn't since only my mum works and my parents live in my country of origin. But I don't want to talk much about this because I don't want to cause problems with the condition of my visa.

yes I have used a pay as you go card and my bank card. I have to sent them my banks statements to show them? And when you say "to show them some financial reason " you mean my part-time job salary?

It is a stupid reason but I really didn't knew I was going against the law. I might add that being a student in London is expensive and since my parents cant help me anymore with the maintenance and having only a part time job led me take this action, but there are not any other reasons.

Hello everyone, I managed to write a letter but since I am not very good to write such a letter in English I took parts from other letters published in this forum. I am posting it but if it is not right please tell me and I will try to write another one. Thank You. Dear Sir, I write regarding the letter that I have received from you and concerning the occasion on when I was reported for travelling on your bus service on 17th January 2020 in Pembridge Road/ Kensington Park Road using another person not transferable zip card. I apologise profusely for my actions in this case. I pride myself on my integrity and honesty and I feel shameful for my moment of very poor judgement. As an international student under Tier 4 Visa conditions if this matter were to escalate further into court, it would lead to severe penalty from Home Office in my case, thus a criminal conviction would be devastating and I am afraid I will lose the right to remain further in the country. As said above I am an international student. I have been in England less than a year and ignorantly I did not know the severity of such actions. This does not want to be an excuse for my offence, since I immediately understood how wrong I was, it only wants to be an explanation of what let me take such a foolish decision of using someone else’s zip card. I am extremely sorry for what may appear to you to have been an attempt to avoid my liability, but I must stress that this was not intentional. I wish to apologise to the member of staff concerned and to TFL, I am just so sorry for my actions and the inconvenience caused to all involved. I am happy to make immediate payment of the unpaid fare and all the reasonable costs that my actions have caused and avoid a criminal record thereby allowing me to protect my good name. I have never been in trouble with the law in the past and I am very sorry that my ignorance has led to this situation now. I sincerely hope that you will accept my offer. I am now fully aware of the rules relating to the TFL freedom pass and tickets and can assure you that I will always ensure to hold a valid ticket of my own on any future journeys. I would appreciate your consideration and I sincerely hope that you can show some leniency in this matter.

Thank you @honeybee13. I will try to write one. I read here that even without the out of court settlement some people have not received the criminal record but only a fine. I don't know what to think anymore.

@dx100uk I have received only the charge for this journey. Sorry for my ignorance but what is a SJP? the charge has been made at 21 june 2020 but I received this only yesterday. Now they ask me to make my plea and I have 21 days to do so, but I want to try an out of court settlement. There is not any court date on the papers they sent me now though.

@dx100uk Tfl said that there is the possibility they will take off the right to my cousin to have a 11-15 oyster card again.

@honeybee13 yes, is like you said. I have used it for 2 or 3 months, but I don't know exactly how many times.

@dx100uk they wrote to my cousins parents too some month ago they asked them why was the card of this child being used by another person. They said that there was the possibility that they will take her right to have the card anymore away... And they know exactly how many times the card has been used, but they didn't mention anything in the letter I got.

@BankFodder Indeed I do feel very ashamed of my poor judgement. I didn't say I do not appreciate the importance of such matters I said I didn't knew that was so important. In my country the max is a fine.

Hello thank you to welcome me. I attached the pdf again and I have used that card for approx12 weeks but not everyday. tfl.pdf