Merseyrail Prosecution - Disabled Card

[Fawkes Cat]

It’s a stonewall no-prosecution. Groundless. The OP need expend no additional effort getting the prosecution stopped other than writing a single sentence explaining how and why the ticket is valid. The RPI is incompetent; this is how child tickets purchased alongside disabled tickets print.



Correct.


It was though.


Nobody should have been reported. This is over complicating the issue.


There’s no “in any event” here. You’re much too nice. Tickets were valid, end of. No further questions.

Now onto the question of how this useless and feckless outfit compensates the disabled traveller for the distress and inconvenience.

If the priority is to get the threat of prosecution withdrawn (and our views on whether that is the priority may differ) then it makes sense to make it easy for Merseyrail to withdraw. Hence offering alternative grounds for Merseyrail to use to quit.

As an alternative, since the facts of this specific case are yet to be tested in court, we cannot be absolutely certain of what view the court would take of each ground. For sure, we would expect them to throw out the prosecution on the first ground. But if they don't, it's worth having a defendable position to retreat to.