A 44-year-old gambler committed suicide after losing £10,000 in the weeks before her death, an inquest has confirmed.
Ellen Mulvey, from Cheshire, lost hundreds of thousands of pounds since she first started gambling in 2018. Although she signed up to Gamstop to prevent herself from accessing UK betting websites, she later turned to using unlicensed firms to place bets, which are not covered by the self-exclusion scheme.
In Mulvey’s suicide note from November, she admitted: “I have lied, I have an addiction. Thought I had sorted it but recently it got worse.”
Heartbreak
Coroner Elizabeth Wheeler concluded that Mulvey’s gambling “went back many years”, and she had been struggling with…