Fan died after being 'targeted' by gambling sites

Name: Fan died after being 'targeted' by gambling sites
Uploaded: 2026-01-14T15:42:45.807Z
Duration: 2 min 42 s

A coroner has concluded that a 36-year-old Liverpool fan took his own life after he was enticed to use illegal gambling websites to bet on football matches.

Oliver Long died in February 2024 in East Sussex after suffering with a "severe gambling addiction", an inquest was told.

His sister, Chloe Long, told a coroners court he tried to stop gambling on several occasions and signed up to GamStop - a self-exclusion scheme for people with online gambling problems.

GamStop blocks access to accounts on gambling websites and apps but he was "targeted" by unlicensed overseas sites and began gambling again.

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Fan died after being 'targeted' by gambling sites

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