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Ticket tout targeted Arab Liverpool fans in scam

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A ticket tout who targeted Liverpool FC fans from the Middle East has been banned from games for three years.

Abdelmohaimen Mohamed, from Manchester, was spotted on CCTV "meeting and greeting" punters on Paisley Square in Liverpool, Merseyside Police said.

The 33-year-old was initially caught trying to sell tickets to a couple from Seattle in the United States before Liverpool's match with Arsenal in August.

He admitted "selling/disposing of a ticket for a designated football match – otherwise known as ticket touting" at Sefton Magistrates Court.

Merseyside Police Abdelmohaimen Mohamed has dark hair and a beard.
Abdelmohaimen Mohamed targeted fans from Egypt and Saudi Arabia

Police said when he was arrested he was found with four mobile telephones, all of which contained matchday tickets.