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Anfield Ticket Tout Gets Three-Year Football Ban and £1,500 Fine After Guilty Plea

Police say the Manchester man ran a commercial-scale scheme using multiple phones to sell illegitimate digital tickets.

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.