Ticket tout invented names for profit

A TOUT used false names such as Dr Rick Bowels, Mr Sinatra, Mr Rhubarb and Mr Gravy to apply for official England and Manchester United tickets and then sold them on for profit, a court heard yesterday.

Suhail Patel, 24, invented hundreds of names in multiple applications for membership of the two official supporter schemes.

Patel, of Blackburn, Lancashire, would go to the matches himself with family and friends but would sell on the vast majority of tickets acquired.