Ed Sheeran ticket touts jailed in ‘landmark’ Leeds case

In our jaundiced view anybody selling any Ed product should be jailed. Now we’ve got that out of our system here’s the story.

The BBC reports….

Two internet ticket touts who re-sold tickets worth millions of pounds for events including Ed Sheeran and Adele concerts have been jailed.

Peter Hunter and David Smith traded as Ticket Wiz and BZZ. Over five years BZZ sold tickets for £9.3m more than it paid for them, Leeds Crown Court heard.

Sheeran’s manager Stuart Camp gave evidence after £75 seats for a charity gig were spotted on sale for £7,000.

Hunter was jailed for four years and Smith for two and a half years.

It was described by National Trading Standards as a “landmark case” which was “the first successful prosecution against a company fraudulently reselling tickets on a large scale”.

Sentencing the pair, Judge Mushtaq Khokhar said: “This was a case of sustained dishonesty for a number of years.

Source:: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51618744?fbclid=IwAR0QL2EUwH4qzHTQ98CIyspyXBNhPif2Laiw8E5My5YODOKZn31VLweopbg