Oasis phoney who sold fake VIP tickets to Wembley reunion sees her Masterplan unravel

Do Look Back in Anger: Rosie Slater sold fake box tickets for Oasis reunion concerts (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

A conwoman who sold fake VIP Oasis tickets for £130 to pay off her council tax bill has been fined just £40. Some might say she got off lightly.

Tickets for the band’s reunion tour, which were their first gigs in 16 years, were listed on secondary ticket resale websites for thousands of pounds.

But Rosie Slater, 33, used her connections with ‘wealthy, rich and famous people’ to dupe 11 Oasis super fans out of £4,000, Staffordshire Police said.

Slater, who admitted 11 counts of fraud by false representation at a hearing in December, sat in front of the glass dock at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on Monday, wearing a black outfit with a black blazer over the top.

Prosecutor Kyle Padley said Slater, formerly of Betley in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, told her victims she had access to Oasis tickets, including for the VIP box at Wembley Stadium.

One man, who bought 15 tickets from her, set up two WhatsApp groups and invited friends he thought might want to buy some, the court heard.

In those groups, Slater offered a price of £130 per ticket, and some people sent her the money directly and booked non-refundable hotel rooms for the concert dates.

She’s Embezzler: Rosie Slater admitting 11 counts of fraud by false representation in relation to Oasis tickets she pretended to have. (Picture: PA)

Mr Padley told the court: ‘It later came out the defendant was lying.’

He said she was then interviewed by police, adding: ‘She said she started with good intent then it escalated out of her control.’

The defendant was handed a 12-month community order and must pay a £40 fine and compensation of £776.98 to five of her victims.

Some of her victims have already been able to get refunds, the court heard.

Slater was also told to pay a £114 victim surcharge and costs of £85, and will complete 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days as part of her sentence.

Simon Leech, defending Slater, told the court ‘she did not spend this money extravagantly’ and that she used it to pay off household debts including council tax payments.

DC David Stubbs, of Staffordshire Police, told LBC: ‘She does have connections with some of our wealthy, rich and famous people and has been fortunate enough to previously attend concerts, and due to this she was able to convince her victims that she had credible access to both the tickets and the VIP box at Wembley Stadium.

‘No evidence has been found of any coercion. She has acted, we believe, purely out of greed, exploiting her connections for personal gain.

‘This has left the victims obviously very upset. It’s caused a lot of anger and hurt, really, particularly as she used some of the victims to attract more victims.’

A Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation was launched into the way Ticketmaster sold Oasis tickets in 2024.

The probe found Ticketmaster did not tell fans waiting in lengthy queues that standing tickets were being sold at two different prices, and that prices would jump as soon as the cheap tickets sold out.

Ticketmaster sold some platinum tickets at almost two and a half times the price of standard tickets, without sufficient explanation that these offered no additional benefits in the same areas of the venue, the CMA said.

In response, the CMA said Ticketmaster must now tell fans 24 hours in advance if a tiered pricing system is being used – as it was for Oasis standing tickets.

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