Are bookies targeting disabled people?
Money: People who become disabled due to medical mess-ups get big compensation payments. Are bookies trying to get them to gamble it all away?
If bookmakers allowed one severely disabled man, feeding his gambling addiction until they had taken everything he had, how many others are getting the same treatment?
The Guardian is reporting that Ladbrokes Coral and Paddy Power are accused of fuelling Liam McCarron’s gambling addiction until he had squandered his compensation from a botched operation that left him severely disabled.
It is alleged that they helped him fill out betting slips as he frittered away his payout.
By the time he was eventually barred from gambling, his losses amounted to half a million pounds.
The firms say they didn’t do anything wrong.
But here’s the question:
How many other people with severe disabilities are losing their cash in the same way? And are they being targeted?
Source: Bookmakers ‘helped gambling addict squander injury compensation’ | Society | The Guardian
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