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Inquest Finds Unlicensed Gambling Sites Targeted Self-Excluded Man Before Suicide

On Tuesday, the inquest at East Sussex Coroner's Court recorded a short-form conclusion of suicide for Oliver Long, 36, who was found dead on 23 February last year.
The court heard Oliver Long, who had a 'severe gambling addiction', self-excluded from UK platforms in 2022 and used unlicensed overseas gambling sites in 2023, losing 20,000 in April.
At the height of his addiction, Oliver Long's bank statements showed his savings depleted by 20,000 in April 2023, with his gambling activity continuing until his death.
Following the hearing, the Gambling Commission said, 'We are deeply saddened by the loss of Oliver Long and our thoughts are with his family and loved ones. targeting of vulnerable people by illegal gambling operators is a criminal act,' and ordered a Prevention of Future Deaths report to the Department of Health, Department for Education and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Next year, legislation is expected to give the Gambling Commission more power, and Tim Miller said: 'Because of our work we had over 81,000 individual URLs being removed from search engines, a lot of those will have been 'not on GamStop' sites.

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