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Epping man jailed over gambling fraud against Bet 365
Epping man jailed over gambling fraud against Bet 365
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ELGIN City striker Kane Hester has been cleared of defrauding a bookmaker.
Hester (27) and his friends Calvin Parrott (27) and Brodie Stewart Myres (29) were cleared by a jury of scamming nearly £14,000 from Bet365. The jury took less than an hour to find the charge not proven against the trio after hearing five days of evidence at Dundee Sheriff Court. Hester's future playing career is likely to remain in the balance as football chiefs are expected to study evidence led during the case. Outside court, Hester was asked to comment on what the case meant for his football career and replied: "No, sorry." The trial heard that Hester had exchanged messages in advance of a cup match against Hibs in July 2019 in which he agreed he would deliberately get booked. It was agreed that his friends had bet thousands of pounds online on Hester being booked and made nearly £14,000 when referee Willie Collum showed the forward a yellow card. During a police raid on Hester's home after the match, detectives found £2,400 which he freely admitted he had been paid as part of the plot. But the jury believed Hester's claim that when the match began he got caught up in the moment and forgot about what he had previously agreed to do. He claimed he was an aggressive player and the "bad foul" on a Hibs player was just part of the match. However, the trial heard that he only averaged one booking every 17 games. The court was shown footage of Hester's home being raided and the footballer telling officers he knew what they were there for and would take them to the cash Hester said: "Do you know what would be easier? I know what you are talking about. There's no point mucking you about. "I've got the money, it's at home. If I take you home and give you the money, that's what happened. "I was booked in a game and my friends gave me money for it - £2,500." Findlay Soutar (26) - who had the charge against him dropped during the trial - said £12,500 appeared in his Bet365 account after the match and said large bets had been placed through his account by co-accused Brodie Myres. He told the jury he was paid £500 by Myres for the use of his account. Soutar agreed that oil worker Myres was a semi-professional gambler whose own Bet365 account had been limited to £5 bets because he was winning too much money. The court heard Myres owned a part-share in a horse and greyhounds and had also been banned by another bookmaker, William Hill. Myres, who works in oil research and development, told the court that he often laid large bets and had once lost a £9,000 bet. He admitted sending a message to Parrott advising him to tell Hester to "bloody half someone if he's not got one (a booking) by 30 minutes." Hester was booked on 29 minutes during the televised BetFred Cup match. The jury was told that Myres, Parrott, Soutar and Hester's brother Lloyd Hester had all been members of a private Facebook group called Gamblers Elite. Parrott and Myres handed £2,500 to Hester after being paid out by the betting firm. |
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https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/elgin-city-striker-kane-hester-cleared-of-defrauding-bet365-306391/
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Findlay Soutar (26) - who had the charge against him dropped during the trial - said £12,500 appeared in his Bet365 account after the match and said large bets had been placed through his account by co-accused Brodie Myres.
He told the jury he was paid £500 by Myres for the use of his account. hmmmmm |
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When that happen Dave ?
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doubt accounts were used for betting, he'd just have been nabbing the £200 a/c opener. probably worked out 2500 accounts nets him half a million smackers. as everyone else did, he just pushed it a bit too much, got the bank excited. best keeping the napper well below the parapet
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good point about the bank. It likely they got the whole process moving regards money laundering rather than 3 6 5 with the betting. I remember my bank about 10 years ago mentioning to me betting wins of little more than a grand ffs.
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wonder how paddy feels about fraud by false representation given the thousands of £108 bets he's placed into markets on the exchange under the guise of being an exchange punter ?
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There are loads of banks that offer switching bonuses, it's quite easy to obtain them. You could easily get someone who isn't interested in playing the online game (not many people are), if they trusted you to allow you to use their profile to create multiple current accounts and access the switching bonuses and preferential saving rates. Say I gave them £200 I could probably make £1.5K, just with one person's details if they had not participated in switching previously.
The individual would be entitled to the bonuses and rates, they just don't have the gumption and/or inclination. It's quite a moral question really, is that fraud or not. Technically it is for sure. |
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In the late 80s we were asked to investigate a serviceman who had emptied a fruit machine in the mess,lucky man we thought rather than any crime.However turned out he was in charge of the maintainance etc and had discovered a fault in this particular machine,paying out jackpots.Finding an actual offence took us through Stones Justice manual etc.
Eventually we settled on gaining a pecuniary advantage and successfully convicted under that,took no enjoyment from the experience as we felt he had done what most would have had they had the knowledge,the clincher being of course his abuse of position. None of that here but I suspect this is where the CPS and Police tackled this particular issue i.e Obtaining a Pecuniary Advantage? |
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Until I read the full adjudication by the judge I still think the sentence is too severe for what he's done and has been reported; the BHA accepted a last-minute plea bargain with a deplorable employer (Mr Brisland) and his henchman (Mr Degnan) both of whom denied a bullying culture and mistreatment of staff existed in their yard until just before the hearing.
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Caan Berry's take on the case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaaZSWvs4v0 Ignore the whinging about how unfairly bookies act. CB thinks the fraud was to claim the money back from Santander if the bets lost. He also says there must have been more to it, so it does not look like he has the inside track. Even if the fraud is as he states, there'd also have been signing on bonuses. |
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iGamingNext has what it claims is the full story.
https://igamingnext.com/news/bet365-fraud-jon-howard-inside-story/ Looks like the silly sod invited imprisonment if this bit is true:- [Howard] then sought to release funds that had been locked up in accounts frozen by bookmakers. To do this, he initiated court proceedings against bet365 with the intention of having the frozen funds released. Only, he did so by using the personal details of another individual. The courts then contacted the individual to inform them that proceedings had been initiated in their name. At this stage, the person whose details Howard had used contacted bet365’s fraud team and stated they had no knowledge of anyone using their information. Bet365 then referred the claim to Essex Police for investigation. |
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Yeah that was silly, but really looks like he came across a c-nt of a judge.
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"In the late 80s we were asked to investigate a serviceman who had emptied a fruit machine in the mess"
USS CAINE COME TO MIND ,and strawberry ice cream |
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v interesting Ram. If that is true " initiated court proceedings against 3 6 5 " he deserves double the sentence for stupidity.
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Silly boy
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Silly indeed - if you actually wanted to get done for "fraud by representation" then pretending to be someone else in order to sue a bookmaker - or anyone - is about as direct a way of inviting prosecution as I can think of.
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