A Brits paper-recycling magnate who sued his bookmaker for letting him risk “horrendous” amounts of money has seen his slip dismissed at Central London County Court.

Millionaire George C. Scott O’Brien had argued that high-end bookmaker Star Sports, based inwards London’s moneyed Mayfair district, failed inward its duty of guardianship to protect him from his gambling addiction.

O’Brien claimed that faculty knew he was a problem risk taker but noneffervescent allowed him to wager more than £400,000 and lose almost £100,000 (US$124,880)sibility inscribe provisions,” which are a experimental condition of its license, he argued inwards the lawsuit.

“I’ve gambled all my lifespan and it’s stripped me bare,” O’Brien told the judge. “I don’t still similar gambling, but it’s simply something i can’t control.”

Out of Control

O’Brien said his gambling problem had spiraled come out of check since he sold his paper-recycling business sector for £9 billion (US$11.2 million) inward 2012.

He claimed he confided inwards a member of staff, Gemma Mehmet, almost his problem and told her that keep company should censor him.

“I thought Gemma mightiness say something,” he told the court. “I asked her not to recount anyone that I had a flake of a job with gambling, and she appeared understanding.

I told Gemma i had tried committing self-destruction at one time and spent decade months inward rehab due to my addiction, and begged her non to recite my ex,” he added. “I told her that I’d had serious problems inwards the past times and it would create to a greater extent serious problems if my ex found out.”

But Christopher Gillespie, lawyer for Star Sports, disputed that O’Brien had ever told anyone at the sportsbook near his job and said that faculty had no more understanding to suspect he had one.

“On the contrary, the claimant portrayed himself as a successful businessman with a variety of interests, who lived inward Knightsbridge, had a driver, dressed fountainhead and moved in wealthy societal circles,” argued Gillespie.

Self-Exclusion Excluded

Gillespie noted that O’Brien had the opportunity to self-exclude from StarSports but did non get along so. The plaintiff did non habituate the sportsbook every day, having at visited around 17 times inward rough vi months, which did non suggest a compulsive pattern.

And Dizzy Gillespie suggested it was suspicious that O’Brien was winning against the bookie until his net twenty-four hour period of betting on Mar 30, 2019.

Judge Heather Baucher agreed. She rejected O’Brien’s title that he told stave most his job when he began visiting Star Sports, adding that his evidence had failed to base that he was regular a job gambler at that time.

“The claimant was non a job gambler, and he did not narrate Ms Mehmet he was,” she wrote. “There was nada to zippy them to the fact that the claimant had an issuance with play until…  March 30.”

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