A MAN who claimed to be a friend of T in the Park bosses conned people out of more than £10,000 by selling fake entry wristbands for the music festival.

Paul Reidy, 23, admitted selling the bands that he claimed would get people into a VIP area at the festival.

The bands were fake and he posed as a security guard to let people in through a staff entrance at Balado, Kinross, last July.

He even told one pal that Geoff Ellis, the organiser of T in the Park had given him the bands to sell.

Reidy was snared when he was seen allowing people in and it was found out that he was not a security guard.

Reidy, of Bathgate, West Lothian, pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to selling £10,180 worth of fake wristbands.

After selling a number of fake wristbands and before posing as security at the music festival, Reidy was caught and arrested at the Fort Shopping Centre in Glasgow's East End in April 2012.

At that time, police appealed for anyone who had bought a wristband from him to come forward.

Laura Martin, from Livingston – who had paid £1000 for five wristbands from Reidy – reported the matter to the police after seeing media reports only days after her purchase.

Sheriff Sam Cathcart deferred sentence until a later date and continued Reidy's bail.