A teenage fraudster was told yesterday that he faced a second prison sentence after he sold bogus international rugby tickets for £8,000 on eBay.

Phillip Shortman, 18, of Pontypool, south Wales, was sentenced to 12 months’ youth custody this year after he tricked 100 customers on the site by advertising non-existent goods.

On that occasion he accumulated £45,000 and used some of the money to stay with friends in a five-star hotel in New York and to take a helicopter ride over Manhattan.

Magistrates at Abergavenny heard that Shortman had committed more internet fraud while he was on bail for the previous offences. He was arrested for selling the bogus tickets for the deciding match in Wales’s Grand Slam season after he was released from prison on licence last month.

Posted: 10|8|05 at 2:34 pm. Filed under: UK News.