A barrister who avoided paying for his train ticket for more than two years may be the "biggest" fare-dodger ever prosecuted in the UK, a court has heard.
Peter Barnett travelled from his Oxford home to London Marylebone but pretended to have only travelled from Wembley, in northwest London.
The 43-year-old's scam between April 2012 and November last year is said to have caused Chiltern Railways to lose out on £23,000 in fares.
He has admitted six counts of fraud by false representation.
Barnett argues that he only dodged up to £9,714 and that the amount should be based on the cost of a weekly ticket and take annual leave into account.
However, prosecutor Malachy Pakenham told Westminster Magistrates' Court: "If it is accepted that the loss was £23,000, this defendant would be convicted of the biggest rail evasion case that has come to the court in the United Kingdom.
"The Crown have reached that figure by a number of rail staff calculating it.
"The train company are experts, not me or my friend, and they have calculated it on a basis that if someone commits a fraud like this defendant has committed, you are not allowed to calculate it on the basis of a weekly ticket, you calculate it on a full single fare, of the return for the day, each and every day this defendant travelled over the period without a full price rail ticket."
Barnett was found out when he was stopped by a ticket inspector at Marylebone and claimed to have travelled from Wembley instead of Haddenham and Thame Parkway in Oxford.
When a station worker became suspicious and called a supervisor, he ran off but later handed himself in.
He is thought to have been boarding trains in Oxford without a ticket, and then getting off at Marylebone by simply tapping out with an Oyster card, which meant he was only charged the maximum Transport for London fare.
The case was adjourned until 27 July so that a hearing can be held to determine the loss suffered by Chiltern Railways.
Barnett has been released on unconditional bail.
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