Prison sentence for UK ticket fraudster
John Lupton sold over £600,000 of tickets to gigs and sporting events, but at least £435,000 worth were fraudulent, a court heard today as it sentenced him to 3½ years
News By | 16 May 2016
An experienced ticket tout who sold over £400,000 worth of bogus concert and sports tickets in a 13-month period between May 2009 and June 2010 has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Fifty-three-year-old John Lupton, of Upper Norwood, appeared at Blackfriars Crown Court earlier today, where he was found guilty by a jury of two counts of fraudulent trading and one count of money laundering. He has also been banned from acting as a company director until 2026.
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