Still No Arrests Involving Notorious £1 Million+ Glastonbury Scammer—Metro Police Say ‘Up to 50’ Fraud Investigations Ongoing

Police still have made no arrests involving the notorious Glastonbury Festival scammer, but up to 50 fraud investigations remain ongoing.

Notorious Glastonbury scammer Miles Hart made off with over £1 million after he sold hundreds of tickets to the festival and then seemingly vanished into thin air. Now, Hart’s former friends have revealed to the BBC how he did it. Police still haven’t made any arrests in the matter, but reveal there are up to 50 fraud investigations related to Glastonbury 2024 tickets still ongoing.

Miles Hart attended the elite private Millfield School, which is only a few miles from Glastonbury Festival’s famous Pyramid Stage in Somerset. As he already had a reputation among his friends as someone who could get anything, it was no surprise when he began selling Glastonbury tickets, hospitality passes, and VIP access passes.

He claimed he had privileged access because of land his family owned near the festival site, which they rented out, and his friends had no reason not to believe him. In fact, some of his former friends at the elite private school said he once surprised them with an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris on a private jet.

So when he started selling Glastonbury passes, his friends and former classmates jumped at the opportunity to attend the world-famous festival. Before long, word of his sales had broken containment, and he had struck global deals to sell around £1 million worth of tickets to the festival’s 2024 edition.

But the day of the festival arrived, and Hart’s tickets failed to materialize, leaving hundreds of fans disappointed and ripped off. Soon, the 27-year-old failed to pay back what he owed, and subsequently went into hiding.

One of Hart’s former classmates, Seb, says he bought a ticket from him for the 2022 edition of the festival—the first since COVID. At the time, Hart told him he had 42 hospitality tickets to sell, which he said he was given because his family rented out land for luxury tents at the festival.

“I thought it was like an exclusive opportunity, and I really didn’t want to miss out,” says Seb, who explained that two days before the festival, he hadn’t heard from Hart for months. So he contacted Glastonbury Festival organizers to ask about the hospitality passes that Hart said had been allocated to him. Organizers said they had never even heard of Miles Hart. “I had heard anecdotally that he was partying in Paris and that made me feel incredibly bitter,” Seb added.

But the next year, Miles Hart was back at it again. He sold Glastonbury tickets to around 50 people and then failed to deliver. Several of his former friends say they were added to a WhatsApp group with others who said they had been ripped off by Hart.

“Everyone knows someone who knows someone who’s been scammed by him,” says Elle, another former friend. “And all the while he was doing this, he was going on like really crazy bougie holidays and spending crazy amounts of money that probably wasn’t his.” She said she and others in the group wondered if their surprise trip to Paris a few years prior had been paid for with “scammed money.”

Leading up to Glastonbury 2024, would-be attendees who missed out on the official sale hopes to score tickets from two major sources: an Ibiza promoter called Kai Cant who posted on Instagram about having access to hospitality tickets, and a company called Star Gaze Entertainment. It turns out that both sources had been promised tickets by Miles Hart.

Will, who worked a summer job for Star Gaze, told the BBC he had sold “hundreds of thousands” of pounds’ worth of tickets for the company—but didn’t know who was actually supplying them. Between Star Gaze’s customers and those secured by Kai, potential attendees spent almost £1 million on Glastonbury tickets that Miles Hart was ultimately supposed to be supplying.

Some folks even managed to talk to Miles on the phone, where he assured them that “if this was all a big scam,” he wouldn’t be on the phone with them in the first place. Hart agreed to meet customers in hotels across England to hand over the tickets personally—but every single one said they waited for hours with no sign of Hart. Ultimately, Hart became unreachable by phone before vanishing again altogether.

So where is Miles Hart now? The BBC obtained a “covert recording” of Hart meeting an unknown man for some sort of business deal. In the recording, he claims he is working for a client who has a “huge cash flow issue” and needs a loan. Hart admits to the man that he has “debt that needs to be paid,” and that he was “involved in something that went wrong.”

But that recording was reportedly made last summer, and Hart has not refunded anyone, according to the BBC. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police said it is investigating up to 50 allegations of ticket fraud relating to Glastonbury 2024 alone. Currently, Hart’s exact whereabouts are unknown, but he was last spotted at a pub near Glastonbury just a few days before this year’s festival.

Whether he will end up caught for his crimes remains uncertain. Attorneys for Hart who spoke to the BBC said there were numerous “material errors” in the allegations made against their client, and that some of the people who spoke to the broadcaster “cannot be relied upon to represent an accurate portrayal of events.”