Graham Calvert Gambles On Court
MR Graham Calvert is not a happy loser. He wants bookies William Hill to pay back his £2million losses.
He claims Hills should have stopped taking his money when he asked them to bar him because he was an addict.
Hills took £3.5million of his money, and retained £2,028,858 of it. Bets included a record £347,000 on the
Mr Calvert now owes £1.5million. his lfie is changed. Says he: “This has ruined my life. It was like taking heroin.”
Opinions are many. Tony’s blog calls is “pathetic whining”.
“There have been a number of similar cases in America: a lot of casinos offer self-exclusion programmes and cases have tested what happens when a casino messes up and allows a person back in to gamble, and what happens when the gambler says he no longer wishes to be self-excluded…and what happens when people have masqueraded as someone else to get round a self-exclusion that they or more usually their family have put in place.
“Negligence is the way to argue this case and I think the judge will certainly listen to Mr Calvert. It depends rather a lot on the facts. How careful were William Hill, did he really self-exclude himself, and did he go out of his way to get round it?”
We are not armed with all the facts. But checking Mr Calverts’s credit hardly seems possible when he is gambling in cash.
Where does the responsibility for addiction lie, with the addict or the supplier?
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Posted: 15th, February 2008 | In: Sports Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
