IT has been revealed 950 people in Barnet have dodged paying their TV license in the first eight months of this year.

TV licensing said more than 31,500 people across Greater London had been caught without a TV licence, this year so far.

Pauline Gillingham, TV Licensing spokesman for London, said: “Some evaders are very inventive with their excuses which can be quite entertaining.

“But the point is that watching or recording live TV without a licence is against the law.

“In fairness to the honest majority of people who pay the fee, we will prosecute those who try to avoid it.”

A database was able to collect figures of people without a TV licence and the 950 people in Barnet were personally visited and found to have been watching TV without a licence.

Dodgers who have been given numerous chances to pay their TV licences, were taken to court.

Source Times – Series