TOX
TOX is a graffiti artist, or profligate tagger, real name Daniel Halpin.
He’s been leaving his tag all over the tube network (and all over London), for many years, scrawling TOX plus the last two digits of the year on walls and surfaces of all kinds.
When it was 2004 he wrote TOX04, when he got arrested in 2011 it had been TOX11, last year it was TOX23.
It’s fair to say Judge Peter Clarke QC was no great fan, sentencing him to 27 months in custody, much to TfL’s delight.
But that didn’t stop him from tagging ubiquitously after he got out, and neither have fences, razor wire, CCTV, live rails, security patrols or seeming inaccessibility. As one London Underground manager once said:
“I don’t know where you can’t see a TOX tag – they are in places even I don’t know how to access.”