Overview
- Abdelmohaimen Mohamed, 33, pleaded guilty at Sefton Magistrates Court to selling or otherwise disposing of a ticket for a designated football match.
- He received a three-year football banning order that bars him from attending any game in the country and was ordered to pay £1,500.
- Officers arrested him outside Anfield on August 31 after he tried to sell tickets to a visiting couple from Seattle before Liverpool’s match against Arsenal.
- Police seized four mobile phones containing numerous matchday tickets, some numbered, which they say enabled him to scan buyers into games.
- Investigators say he targeted Liverpool fans in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and they are urging the public to report ticket fraud via Merseyside Police channels or Crimestoppers.