Staff at Paddy Power Betfair, chose samaritans as their charity of the year and are supporting it through fundraising, corporate donations and volunteering. Critics say samaritans shouldnt work with the gambling industry. Dan whitworth, from radio 4s money box programme, has more. If you are sat in the pub, you can tell a guy who is an alcoholic. Lets be honest, you can tell if a guy is on drugs. The man sat in the corner on his phone is gambling his life away and nobody knows because it is such a hidden thing. Critics, including relatives of people with gambling problems who took their own lives, say samaritans is risking its well earned reputation by working with Paddy Power Betfair, adding it should stop taking the compa nys money. The mp, carolyn harris, who chairs the all Party Parliamentary group on gambling related harm, says she is shocked by the deal. She calls it distasteful and appalling. Others on social media, as well as the Charity Gambling with lives have voiced similar
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They were under. Ready i could not plead guilty to everything that they accuse me of is now. Not guilty and that alternately i was convicted for conspiracy and dire received 24 year sentence theres a way in which you have to see the conspiracy law as a very important tool of Law Enforcement if the crime is selling drugs and some men in miami cells 20 kilos of cocaine to an undercover agent you want to ask who is the seller working where does the money go if the money goes back to a drug lord in colombia. Whos going to keep the proceeds hes in the conspiracy even though he actually wasnt there when this sale took place hes a conspirator and so part of the goal of the conspiracy law is to make sure that the most senior level all of those in the criminal organization are justly punished the problem is when you flip it around and the lowest level people in the criminal Organization Get punished just like they are the key. And thats the big problem in the way in which the conspiracy laws ar
You entered the conspiracy it could have been on the last day. Because i had collected some money on i technically was guilty of conspiracy was held responsible for everything that everybody else had done and my sentence my 24 years was established based on the sum total of all the acts the thing that sandy had manufactured thats where my ears came from my ears did. Things that came from 3700000 tablets of ecstasy that he had manufactured puts me on the chart at this lab just 24 years thats how a judge sentences you based on a chart the way the sentencing laws apply to conspiracy. Being subject to being punished for all the conduct that everybody in the conspiracy has been involved in. So the idea of proportion. Punishment can be lost if this triggers a mandatory sentence to add insult to injury while im incarcerated for 24 years he comes back to the us and goes before the same judge this sentence me to 24 years and he got 3 years probation because he cooperated and snatched out everyb