Ticket con leads to suspended prison sentence

Martyn Round (27) from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire has been convicted of fraud after failing to supply £1,500 worth of tickets for The Glastonbury Festival and Beyonce's UK Arena tour - the tickets never existed. Round targeted people who posted 'tickets wanted' notes on the Gumtree website. Round admitted five counts of fraud by misrepresentation and asked for eleven further offences to be taken into account. He received a 16 week prison sentence, suspended forone year, ordered to pay £760 compensation, £85 court costs, £80 victim surcharge and complete 100 hours of community service. He had previously been jailed for 20 months in 2011 on unrelated fraud charges.