Selling non-existent Electric Picnic tickets lands fraudster in jail

Accused posted empty envelopes to three different parties and claimed the tickets had gone missing

Elbow perform on the main stage during a previous Electric Picnic festival.

Three tickets for a big weekend music festival were bought and paid for but when the registered envelope arrived it was empty.

The man who sold the tickets repeatedly claimed that he had posted the tickets and that they must have gone missing.