18 January 2026
Ed Sheeran ticket tout fraudsters ordered to pay back £3million or face jail https://t.co/Oe9PKtGs46
— NME (@NME) January 17, 2026
If you do the crime, you must do the time.
NME reported this crazy story.
“A couple found guilty of a multi-miMaria Chenery-Woods and her husband Mark Woods
ran TQ Tickets Limited, which used over 100 identities to buy tickets for acts including Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga and re-sell them at inflated prices on secondary ticketing sites such
as Viagogo.llion-pound ticket touting fraud operation have been ordered to pay back £3million within three months, or face jail.
TQ Tickets sold £6.5million worth of gig tickets between 2015 and 2017, but this does not include the hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of unsold tickets that trading standards officers found when they raided its offices in Dickleburgh, Norfolk.
Now, a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Leeds Crown Court, told Chenery-Woods
she must pay £995,279 within weeks or face a further four years in jail.
Woods, meanwhile, must pay £2million by April, or face seven years and six months in prison.
Chenery-Woods was sentenced to four years in prison at Leeds Crown Court in May 2024.
Woods received a two-year suspended prison sentence and was ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work. He was also told he must observe an electronically monitored overnight curfew for four months.”