An expert who treated banned footballer Joey Barton for gambling problems claims the star is the tip of the iceberg. Therapist Steve Pope alleged betting is out of control within football and that players at clubs all over Britain are addicted. He said rich stars at the higher levels of the game routinely wager tens…
A gambling addict fleeced the Post Office at a WH Smiths store out of over £3,600 while he was working there as a counter service adviser. Chesterfield magistrates court heard on Thursday, May 4, how Barry Shaw, 46, of Hall View, Chesterfield, stole £2,000 from the Post Office at WH Smiths on Low Pavement, Chesterfield,…
A gambling addict fleeced the Post Office at a WH Smiths store out of over £3,600 while he was working there as a counter service adviser. Chesterfield magistrates court heard on Thursday, May 4, how Barry Shaw, 46, of Hall View, Chesterfield, stole £2,000 from the Post Office at WH Smiths on Low Pavement, Chesterfield,…
A cruel and ruthless killer may spend the rest of his life behind bars after murdering his friend, cutting up his body, stuffing it in a suitcase, and then adopting the richer mans identity to fund a life as a high-rolling gambler. After putting the headless torso of Yang Liu inside a Samsonite suitcase and…
Online gambling sites operating in Australia will be banned from offering lines of credit to their customers under sweeping new reforms. A national self-exclusion register will also be established under major changes to the bookmaking industry agreed to by state, territory and federal ministers in Melbourne on Thursday. However, World Vision Australia says the changes,…
A former Lufthansa steward has been convicted of ruthlessly dismembering a wealthy businessman and burning his remains so that he could steal his identity, pay off £275,000 of gambling debts and flee to China. Ming Jiang lured his friend Yang Liu, 36, to his flat in Beswick, Manchester, and murdered him in October last year.…
Saturday, March 25th, 2017 Home » Poker News » Cincinnati Mans Murder Linked to Spiraling Debt from Problem Gambling Donald Dawson-Durgan had a gambling debt between $46k and $80k at the Jack Casino Cincinnati, which then was known as the Downtown Horseshoe Casino. Investigators say a Cincinnati mans murder of a 64-year old man was…
Travell Thomas was behind the largest debt collection scheme ever charged Thomas ran the Buffalo-based debt collection business Four Star Resolution The company is accused of making false threats and manipulating its software By Associated Press and Jordan Gass-Poore for Dailymail.com Published: 09:34 +10:00, 21 April 2017 | Updated: 01:57 +10:00, 22 April 2017 e-mail…
Sometimes, the lens captures what the pen just cant. All claims that text could never be bettered on screen were reversed for good back in 1972 when the novel The Godfather became a film. Those particular chapters were, perhaps, always destined for the camera; the story goes that author Mario Puzo was so eager to…
VANCOUVER, April 21, 2017 /CNW/ – Rockwell Diamonds Inc. (“Rockwell” or the “Company”) (TSX:RDI; JSE:RDI) provides a further update to the interim liquidation orders against three subsidiaries of the Company issued by a judge in Kimberley, South Africa on March 23, 2017. The interim orders, which have yet to be confirmed in a final hearing…