Revenue inspector stops fare dodger by pushing him back into station
This is the moment a railway fare dodger was stopped by a revenue inspector who pushed him back into the station and demanded that he paid for his travel.
Video footage showed the passenger attempting to push through a gate to get out of the terminus without tapping an Oyster or contactless card on the reader.
But the Transport for London (TfL) officer blocked him from getting through, pushing him back into the station while telling him he should have bought a ticket.
The incident at Enfield Town station in north London on the Overground's Weaver line was filmed by a fellow passenger who uploaded it to Instagram this week.
It follows criticism of TfL, chaired by Mayor Sadiq Khan, that too many fare dodgers are regularly getting away with the offence. Some 400,000 journeys on a normal weekday are evaded across the network, costing TfL £200million a year in income.
It also comes after a security guard who protected a Fendi store while it was being stormed by anti-fur protesters on London's New Bond Street was hailed a hero.
The new video begins with the inspector saying: 'Bro, go back, I said go back, stop it, where are you going man? Stop it.' The man replies: 'Stop putting your hands on me.'
The inspector adds: 'Listen to me, if you don't have a ticket…' - but the passenger interrupts him, saying: 'I understand that but stop putting your hands on me, bro.'
The passenger, who is holding a plastic bag and a mobile phone in one hand, is then taken to the side of the ticket gates as two other inspectors come to help.
The passenger attempts to push through a gate at Enfield Town station in north London
The fare dodger is stopped by a revenue inspector who pushes him back into the station
The inspector says to 'listen to me' but the man replies: 'Stop putting your hands on me'
The man is then taken to the side of the ticket gates as two other inspectors come to help
The clip from @Kilz_silver has already attracted 7,000 likes and 1,000 comments, with many praising the inspector for refusing to let the man through the gate.
One viewer wrote in the comments: 'Good for him, I get sick of paying my fare when all these people think they can get it for free.' Another said: 'Pay, it is simple.'
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A third said: 'Pay your fare like everyone!'. But a fourth wrote: 'Even if we support the TfL staff action, the law is not on his side, you can't really physically stop the person.'
The video was also posted on Facebook group Your Legal Assistant, which said in the caption: 'Man encounters TfL security final boss when he tried to bump train.'
It comes after TfL revealed last week that the number of passengers handed £100 penalty fares across the network had surged over the past year.
Penalty fares are £100, reduced to £50 if paid within 21 days. Some 69,001 of them were issued in the year to March, up 9 per cent from the previous 12 months.
TfL claimed its ongoing crackdown on fare dodging had also seen a further 21,533 cases result in reports for possible prosecution, up 19 per cent year-on-year.
The transport body said 6.9million contactless payment cards were checked over the year, which represents a 51 per cent increase.
Another recent case saw a cyclist force his way through a wide gate at Hanger Lane station
TfL said it secured 14,406 convictions for fare evasion in 2025/26, which was 955 more than a year earlier.
In one recent case, a person was convicted after being found using a bank card banned by TfL because of previous breaches of its conditions of use.
They admitted 181 offences and were ordered to pay £2,131.
Last week, the Daily Mail revealed another case where a passenger forced his way through a wide-aisle gate at Hanger Lane station in west London while managing to also take his bicycle through.
It comes after Robert Jenrick highlighted fare dodging at Stratford station in London in May 2025, when he was shadow justice secretary.
The former Conservative leadership contender posted a video on social media in which he confronted people who forced their way through the barriers at the station.
He asked one person 'do you think it's alright not to pay' and challenged another to 'go back through the barrier and pay'. At the top of an escalator he said to one person, 'do you want to go back and pay like everybody else?'
But the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association union accused Mr Jenrick, who has since defected to Reform UK, of 'trying to score points' with the clip.
A TfL spokesperson told the Daily Mail last night: 'Fare evasion is a criminal offence and robs Londoners of investment in safe, clean and reliable public transport.
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | End of Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Underground | 5.3% | 5.0% | 4.8% | 4.8% | 5.0% |
| Buses | 2.6% | 2.6% | 2.6% | 2.4% | 2.6% |
| London Overground | 3.5% | 3.2% | 3.2% | 3.1% | 3.3% |
| DLR | 4.2% | 4.0% | 4.1% | 3.8% | 4.0% |
| Elizabeth Line | 3.6% | 3.4% | 3.3% | 3.1% | 3.3% |
| Trams | 6.8% | 7.5% | 7.0% | 7.7% | 7.3% |
| TfL Total | 3.7% | 3.6% | 3.5% | 3.4% | 3.5% |
'By focusing our enforcement teams on locations with a high prevalence of people pushing through gates and using the latest technology to target the most prolific fare evaders across the network, the pan-TfL fare evasion rate has dropped to 3.5 per cent down from 3.9 per cent in 2022/23.
'This builds on the work of our team of more than 500 uniformed officers already deployed across the network to deal with fare evasion and other anti-social behaviour, keeping staff and customers safe, and we're pleased to see our officer deal with this situation in line with the training all our officers receive on managing conflict.
'We are committed to reducing the current rate of fare evasion to 1.5 per cent by 2030/31 financial year and the strategy we now have in place will help us ensure more persistent evaders face justice.'
Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'
Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.
The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.
But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.
'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.
'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'
The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.
Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts
But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.
'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.
Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.
'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.
'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.
'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.
'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'
'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.
'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'
