Ticket clerk ‘did Thameslink for £227k’

A Thameslink ticket officer hacked the company computer to swindle £277,000, a court heard. Mohammed Rahman, 29, is said to have exploited a weaknesses in the system while working as a ticket office clerk at Cricklewood station. He pocketing the cash between 30 September 2017 and 1 November 2018 by using a sophisticated code that ‘tricked’ the computer into thinking it had produced tickets when in fact it had not, prosecutors claim. He is also accused of stealing a mobile…