Miles Hart was sociable, clever and witty - the joker of the group. That is how he is remembered by some of his former friends at Millfield School, which is famous for producing multiple Olympians and sports stars such as Formula One driver Lando Norris.
The £12,000-a-term school in Somerset is just a few miles from Glastonbury Festival's famous Pyramid Stage. "Everyone wanted to be there. Miles was someone who could get you in," says Elle, who knew him from the age of 10.
Glastonbury Festival is one of the hottest tickets in the world, usually selling out within minutes. The festival says only tickets bought from its official seller See Tickets are valid and they are linked to photo ID to keep them out of the hands of touts.
But if anyone could offer an alternative way in, they would be able to demand a high price.
Elle says Miles got her a wristband for entry one year and they went to the festival together. After they left school, he began selling tickets.
Seb, another former Millfield pupil two years older than Miles, says he bought a ticket from him for the 2022 festival, the first one since Covid.
He says Miles had told him he had 42 hospitality tickets to sell, which he had been 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," Seb says.
But two days before the festival, after chasing Miles for months, Seb says he contacted Glastonbury Festival to confirm the allocation of hospitality passes. The festival told him it had never heard of Miles. Seb's attempted calls to him afterwards were declined.
"I had heard anecdotally that he was partying in Paris and that made me feel incredibly bitter," Seb says.
Elle's best friend Cian had also given Miles money for tickets that year and asked for her help in getting it back. Then other mutual friends got in touch to ask Elle if she knew Miles, saying they had also been scammed.
A few months later, Cian died suddenly from a heart attack. Elle and another friend flew out for the funeral in New Zealand, where Cian's family are from. Cian's mother asked Elle to get Miles to pay back the £500 he owed, to help with the funeral costs.
Miles sent a voice note saying the money was already in the post. But three years on, the family have received nothing.
In 2023, Miles was at it again, selling Glastonbury tickets to about 50 people and failing to deliver. Kate, another of Miles's old friends, says she was added to a WhatsApp group with former school friends and acquaintances who said they had been ripped off.
More people in their social circle were added, Kate says. Some said Miles had borrowed money and not repaid it, while one person posted a receipt from a London nightclub with a staggering bill, saying: "Where's your friend? He owes me £200k."
People speculated about how Miles maintained his extravagant lifestyle; Kate and Elle wondered if their surprise trip to Paris the previous year had been paid for with "scammed money".
"Everyone knows someone who knows someone who's been scammed by him," Elle says. "And all the whilst he was doing this, he was going on like really crazy bougie holidays and spending crazy amounts of money that probably wasn't his."
Elle says this is the moment when she decided she wanted to find out how far the lies had gone.
But Miles was about to pull off his biggest scam yet.
In total, customers of Kai and Star Gaze spent almost £1m on Glastonbury tickets to be supplied by Miles Hart.
With weeks to go, Will says the calls and emails to Star Gaze from people asking where their tickets were had become incessant. In group chats, Kai's customers were also suspicious they had been ripped off.
"If this was all a big scam, would I be on the phone to you now?" Miles said in one voice note message to a panicked Kai.
Miles said he did not want to entrust the tickets to the postal system, so he arranged to meet Kai's customers in hotels across England to hand them over personally. Will travelled to meet him at a pub in Glastonbury to pick up the Star Gaze customers' tickets.
They waited for hours with no sign of Miles, in Glastonbury or at any of the hotel meet-ups. Customers could not reach him because he had always phoned them with his caller ID hidden.
Danny says his phone suddenly received a call from a hidden number and he knew it was Miles. "I've had problems with my phone," Miles said to explain his silence. He said the tickets had fallen through because "Glastonbury have found out about them and shut the whole thing down".
Miles was next seen in a clip on social media - with someone confronting him in the street and demanding 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.