Police investigating allegations of bogus campsite bookings for this year’s TT say there are numerous lines of inquiry and a large number of potential victims.

Meanwhile, a glamping firm is suing the company that operated the TT campsite last year, claiming it wasn’t paid for tents it provided.

PodPads, which provided the accommodation for a TT campsite on Blackberry Lane during last year’s TT, claims that it has not been paid by Evolution Camping, the company which operated the site.

Police have issued an alert over bookings for this year’s TT apparently made through Evolution Camping.

It emerged that would-be TT visitors have lost thousands of pounds after allegedly being duped into making bogus campsite bookings.

Evolution Camping had been given use of the football club site on Blackberry Lane for last year’s TT.

But following a series of issues, the agreement with Ballawattleworth-based Mopurca Ltd, trading as Evolution Camping, wasn’t renewed.

A police spokesman said: ’It’s an ongoing investigation.

’There are numerous lines of inquiry surrounding a very large amount of victims, both corporate and private individuals.’

He said there were 20-plus victims who were being contacted.

PodPads says it is seeking to recover debts it says it is owed by Evolution Camping from last year.

Charlie Hewitt of the Bristol-based company said: ’Unfortunately we had a very bad experience working with Evolution Camping at the TT in 2018.

’Evolution Camping hired accommodation units from Podpads, and contracted us to deliver and set them up at a camp site at Blackberry Lane.

’Podpads delivered the units to the specification ordered from us, but unfortunately Evolution Camping mis-sold these products to their customers which led to huge problems on site for both our staff and the customers.

’We are still awaiting payment for the products we provided to Evolution Camping.

’At this stage we cannot comment further as we are in the process of pursuing legal action to recover the debt.’

On its website, Evolution Camping promised to provide customers with ’a five-star experience’. It included glowing testimonials from travel agents and guests.

But some guests who stayed at the Blackberry Lane site last year claimed they were not provided with the tents they had booked, while services were not sufficient.

One posted it was an ’absolute disgrace’ while another commented: ’Zero facilities. Worst stay I’ve ever had anywhere in my 60 years.’