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Joe Talora

Shingi Mararike: Journalist accused of skipping Tube fare says he was racially profiled

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Transport for London has apologised after a journalist said he was racially profiled by a ticket inspector at a station in east London.

Sky News correspondent Shingi Mararike posted on Twitter that he was on his way home on Tuesday evening when a ticket inspector stopped him on board a DLR train “because apparently I matched the description of someone who has ‘persistently’ dodged the train fare at Shadwell station in east London, including yesterday”.

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