Man fined more than £500 for entering a tube station on roller skates

A man has been fined more than £500 for entering a tube staton on rollerskates.

John Cejas rolled into Whitechapel Station in Tower Hamlets, east London and skated through the barriers at around 12.30pm on July 11 this year.

He was pulled up by station staff who said he had breached Underground rules forbidding all wheeled vehicles within stations and onboard trains.

TfL proceeded to prosecute Cejas in September for being in breach of Byelaw 15, which states that all passengers must enter the network on foot.

Sophie Taylorson, a TfL official, told a magistrates court she observed Cejas arrive at the station with roller skates on his feet.

She said Cejas, of Manor Park in east London, handed over his details when asked.

Cejas, 27, did not enter a plea, and was handed a fine of £220 on top of £250 in costs, as well as an £88 victim surcharge, coming to £558 in total.

TfL rules say that passengers must not use ‘bicycles, roller skates, roller blades, scooters, skateboards or hoverboards’ on buses, in stations or on platforms.

His case was one of more than 700 brought by TfL through the single justice procedure last week, the Standard reported.

The majority of cases relate to fare evasion, which legal action also taken against passengers using scooters within TfL space, smashing through barriers or attempting to tailgate other passengers.

Hassan Arif, 46, was fined a total of £558 after attempting to tail another traveller through the barriers at King’s Cross station.

Arif’s court papers were sent to a currently closed hostel in the area, and it remains unclear if he was even aware that he had been prosecuted.

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