A HEREFORDSHIRE woman has been ordered to pay hundreds of pounds after failing to buy a train ticket.

Bronwen Lowsdale-Lowther was proven guilty in her absence by magistrates in Reading.

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The court heard the 23-year-old had travelled on the Great Western Railway at Reading without having paid her fare of £187.90 and with intent to avoid paying it on March 22.

Lowsdale-Lowther, of Kingsland, Leominster, was fined £440 and must pay compensation of £187.90, costs of £180, and a £44 victim surcharge.

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