Convicted touts sentenced to 6.5 years in prison
Two UK-based touts are facing a collective six years and six months behind bars for fraudulently buying and reselling tickets, in “a major blow to ticket touts”
News By | 25 February 2020
A pair of internet ticket touts have been sentenced to a combined six-and-a-half years in prison, in the first case of its kind in the UK against fraudulent resellers.
Peter Hunter and David Smith, who operated as the company BZZ Limited, received four years and 30 months in jail respectively, following an investigation by the National Trading Standards eCrime Team, and trail at Leeds Crown Court.
Earlier this month, jurors found Hunter and Smith guilty of fraudulent trading – for the…
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