A BARRISTER who dodged up to £19,000 worth of rail fares has been sacked from his profession.

Dr Peter Barnett, an Oxford graduate, was convicted of six charges of fraud by false representation last year after making hundreds of journeys from his home in Thame, Oxfordshire to London's Marylebone station without buying tickets.

Instead he pretended to have only travelled from Wembley, north-west London, paying just for the short trips in the capital and dodging fares worth up to £19,000 over a two and a half year period.

He was caught when he was stopped by a ticket inspector at Marylebone, claiming to have travelled from Wembley instead of Haddenham & Thame Parkway in Oxfordshire.

The Bar Standards Board said that Barnett had been disbarred on Monday by an independent tribunal.

A spokesman said: "Dishonest conduct is incompatible with membership of the Bar.

"The Tribunal's decision to disbar Dr Barnett reflects this."

Dr Barnett, who was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in London in 2007 was convicted of a sustained period of evading rail fares in between April 2012 and November 2014.