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Call for UK gambling reform after ‘generous and caring’ woman takes her own life

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Call for UK gambling reform after ‘generous and caring’ woman takes her own life

Ellen Mulvey ran up huge betting losses online and wrote ‘addiction is the worst disease’ before she died

A family is calling for wholesale reform of the gambling industry after an inquest heard details of the life and death of Ellen Mulvey, a “generous and caring” woman with a high-flying City job who also had a secret addiction.

Mulvey’s family believe she lost hundreds of thousands of pounds gambling without their knowledge, first via mainstream operators and then on unlicensed platforms.

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Originally reported by The Guardian