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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Margaret Davis

Vinyl forger made £2.7 million profit selling fake Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran records

A vinyl forger who generated £2.7 million over seven years by pressing fake records by artists including the Beatles, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran has been jailed.

Rehan Ahmed, 40, of Cranleigh Gardens, Southall, west London, was handed a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence at Inner London Crown Court on Friday for what police described as "a long‑running, highly organised and entirely unlicensed manufacturing operation".

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