Customers Seek £1 Million in Revenge Against Glastonbury Scammer Who Sold Hundreds of Tickets and Disappeared

FRIENDS of a scammer who allegedly swindled dozens of people on the promise of providing exclusive Glastonbury tickets have revealed how he did it.

Miles Hart attended the elite £12,000-a-term private Millfield School, just a few miles from Festival’s famous Pyramid Stage in .

Miles Hart managed to get people into Glastonbury when he was youngerCredit: BBC He attended a swanky private school near where the festival was heldCredit: BBC

He had a reputation among friends as a guy who could get anything – including exclusive tickets to the world famous festival.

Hart would begin to sell Glastonbury tickets, hospitality passes and VIP Access All Areas passes – claiming he had privileged access because of land his family owned near the festival site.

Soon his sales had gone global and he had struck deals to sell about £1 million of passes to punters who had missed out on initial ticket drops.

When the day of the 2024 festival drew near Hart’s promised tickets failed to materialise, leaving hundreds disappointed and out of pocket.

The 27-year-old went into hiding and failed to pay back what he owed.

Now his former friends have revealed in a BBC documentary how a Somerset lad managed to blag his way into extreme wealth.

Elle, who knew him from the age of 10 claimed everyone wanted to go to Glastonbury, adding that Miles was the man who could get them in.

She claims Hart got her a wristband for entry one year and they went to the festival together.

Once the pair had left school Hart began to sell tickets on a large scale, with another former Millfield pupil claiming to have bought tickets from him for the 2022 festival.

Hart claimed he had 42 hospitality tickets to sell, which he had been given because his family rented out land for tents at the festival.

Just two days before the festival was set to kick off the former pupil said he was forced to call Glastonbury himself after Hart went quiet on him.

The festival told him it had never heard of Hart and the disappointed pupils attempted calls to him afterwards were declined.

Hart meanwhile was presumed to be spending the vast amount of cash he had gained from selling the fake tickets.

“I had heard anecdotally that he was partying in and that made me feel incredibly bitter.” The pupil claimed.

Hart’s former friends banded together to catch him outCredit: BBC Hart even went back on a promise to refund the family of one of his victim’s after she passed awayCredit: BBC

Another former school friend, Cian, had also given Miles for tickets that year and asked for her help in getting it back.

A landslide of other mutual friends and acquaintances then started to come forward saying they had also been scammed.

A few months later, Cian tragically died suddenly after suffering a heart attack.

Cian’s mother asked Elle to get Hart to pay back the £500 he owed, to help with the funeral costs.

Hart claimed he had sent money in the post to the grieving family but it failed to materialise.

When the 2023 festival rolled round Hart started up his scheme again, elling Glastonbury tickets to about 50 people and failing to deliver.

A few of the scammer’s former friends were added to a group of his victims and the scale of his swindling was unravelled.

One person posted a receipt from a nightclub in the group, saying: “Where’s your friend? He owes me £200k.”

Hart always appeared to have vast wealth, in fact he had once whisked two of his friends away on a swanky trip to Paris.

Former friends Kate and Elle later wondered if their surprise trip to the previous year had been paid for with “scammed money.”

Elle said: “Everyone knows someone who knows someone who’s been scammed by him.

“And all the whilst he was doing this, he was going on like really crazy bougie and spending crazy amounts of money that probably wasn’t his.”

Even though Hart’s schemes began to unfurl around him he was about to pull off his boldest scam yet.

As Glastonbury 2024 approached punters who had missed out on official ticket sales were going to two other sources for their passes.

Hart was always wealthy and had taken school friends on posh trips abroadCredit: BBC After his biggest scam Hart disappearedCredit: BBC

An promoter called Kai Cant put out an story saying he could get hospitality tickets for £1,350, and a company called Star Gaze Entertainment were offering last minute tickets.

Hart, it turned out, had promised both access to tickets.

Miles had said he ran a catering firm working in the hospitality areas at the festival, which gave him access to tickets.

Hart also claimed he could get tickets through his mother’s connections.

She was a local councillor and Hart said she was trustworthy, noting that she was not someone who would ruin her reputation by becoming involved in anything shady.

Somerset councillors have no special access to and Susannah Hart had no involvement in Miles’s ticket schemes.

One of the people who worked at Star Gaze as a job, Will, told the BBC he had sold hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of tickets.

He went on to claim that he did not know who was supplying them.

Customers of Kai and Star Gaze spent almost £1m on Glastonbury tickets Hart promised he could supply.

As the festival approached calls and emails to Star Gaze from people asking where their tickets were became non-stop.

In a message sent to Kai Hart said: “If this was all a big scam, would I be on the phone to you now?”

In a bizarre claim Hart said he didn’t trust the postal system with his precious tickets.

Instead he arranged to meet customers at and hand over the passes in person.

An employee for Star Gaze travelled to meet Hart at a pub in Glastonbury to pick up their tickets.

They waited for hours with no sign of Miles, in Glastonbury or at any of the hotel meet-ups.

No one could reach Hart – he always made calls with his caller ID hidden.

Hart claimed to have had problems with his phone and eventually made contact to say the tickets had fallen through because Glastonbury had found out about his reselling.

Miles was next seen in a clip on social media being confronted in the street.

A disappointed punter demands his tickets or a full refund of £10,000 by the next day. “Yeah, I’ve agreed to that,” Miles is heard to say.

And then, he vanished again.

The Metropolitan Police are said it is investigating up to 50 allegations of ticket fraud relating to Glastonbury 2024.

The BBC contacted Miles Hart for comment and he said, through lawyers, that there were numerous “material errors” in the allegations made against him and that some of the people who spoke to the BBC “cannot be relied upon to represent an accurate portrayal of events.”

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