How a $4 ticket turned into a $1143 fee

THE quick trip should have cost just $4, but student Parys Lanlehin ended up with a huge fee and it was all because of this one mistake.

Parys Lanlehin has ended up with a huge bill. Picture: Facebook

STUDENT Parys Lanlehin has learnt a rather expensive lesson from what should have been a simple $4 train fare.

The 20-year-old was travelling between Nottingham and Beeston in the UK — a five minute trip — when she was found to be using the wrong ticket.

It turns out that she was travelling on the wrong day, and in the wrong direction, so was issued with a £20 ($40) penalty over the June 2014 incident. But the University of Nottingham student never paid up, the UK’s Telegraphreported.

She claims she was unaware there were legal proceedings taking place in Nottingham, as she’s since moved to London.

But after failing to attend the court case, Lanlehin was found guilty last week of boarding a train without a valid ticket.

She was fined a total of $1143 over the simple error; $448 plus $612 in prosecution costs, the original $40 fee and a $43 government ‘surcharge’. Ouch.

She has a big bill to pay now. Picture: Facebook