Ed Sheeran welcomes guilty verdicts of ‘greedy’ ticket touts in £6,500,000 reselling scheme

Ed Sheeran has welcomed a guilty verdict in the case of ticket touts who ‘exploited’ fans of his music.

Two people, Lynda Chenery and Mark Woods, have been found guilty of fraudulent activity over their involvement in touting firm TQ Tickets Ltd, which sold on tickets to the tune of more than £6.5 million pounds in just two and a half years.

Maria Chenery-Woods – who is Woods’s wife and Chenery’s sister – and Chenery’s ex-husband Paul Douglas pleaded guilty to the offences at an earlier hearing.

Tickets for major musicians such as Lady Gaga, Little Mix and Sheeran were targeted by the ‘dishonest’ company, which bought up large numbers of tickets and resold them at vastly inflated prices.