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888.COM ASKED FOR FINANCIAL RECORDS
US police seek assistance in murder investigationThe US publication MetroWest Daily News reports that state prosecutors have requested the financial records of a player at the Gibraltar-based 888.com online gambling group. The officials are involved in a murder investigation in which an accused named as Neil Entwistle (28) is allegedly involved.
Entwhistle reportedly had an account with Casino On Net in the month before he is accused of killing his wife and infant daughter in the States two years ago.
Prosecutor Michael Fabbri has apparently sent a 7 page document to Gibraltar requesting the company’s financial records regarding Entwhistle. The prosecution is seeking the records to help prove that Entwistle’s financial problems were his motive for shooting his wife Rachel (27) and daughter, Lillian Rose, 9 months, on January 20, 2006 in their 6 Cubs Path, Hopkinton, home.
The prosecutor’s communication is a legal document sent from one country to another requesting testimony, documents or evidence in a court case.
In the letter, Prosecutor Fabbri claimed that Entwistle opened the gambling account on December 15, 2005, approximately one month before the murders. The prosecutor said Entwistle lost hundreds of dollars that month, which he claims is key evidence in building the motive for the murders.
“The prosecutor needs records relating to this account to help establish that Entwistle had financial difficulties and that these difficulties affected his state of mind and provided him with a motive to commit murder,” Fabbri wrote in the letter.
The letter also lays out, with no new details, the case the prosecution is making against Entwistle.
Entwistle is accused of killing his wife and daughter to hide a secret life of debt, online business scams and sex. Authorities say he stole a gun from his in-laws’ Carver home, then used it to shoot his wife and daughter in their bed.
He then drove to Carver, returned the gun and flew to England, returning to his Nottinghamshire home, where he was later arrested and extradited to Massachusetts, authorities allege.
Entwistle told authorities he discovered his wife and daughter’s bodies, considered killing himself, but could not go through with it. He said he went home to England to be with his family.
Entwistle is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and the illegal possession of a firearm. He is being held without bail in an American jail. If convicted, he faces a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.
The trial is scheduled to begin June 2.
Is this just a way for the U.S. anti-gambling “powers that be” to try to prove that online gambling leads to bad things like poverty, bad judgement and eventually…. murder?
My prayers go to all the family members involved with this case but trying to establish that online gambling debts lead to murder…. I smell trouble.
lost hundreds of dollars that month
what a joke. it’d be funny if their wasn’t lives lost.
ya that always sends me up to top of the local tower with a rifle. losing hundreds!
come on. even if you only made min hourly wage … hundreds of dollars (usually infer less than 1000) … would not be a reason to kill your family.
Geez!
I hope this guy that killed his family rots in prison, and hope that one day 888 goes up in flames BUT… I can’t really see any online casino group helping out the US after the UIGEA. The US said a big “FUCK YOU” to online casinos and now is a chance for one of them to give it right back.
The lengths they go to in trying to link both together.
what is several hundred dollars? what a joke
Well, hope they ignore the letter as giving it will simply make more media coverage of the casino and the murder… even if it is nonesense
This is just one of many reasons why nobody should promote 888. :tongue:
But seriously, I’m sure the idiots in Washington will use this to embolden their efforts in the war on certain types of gambling. Now they will have TWO examples of how internet gambling is a “scourge on society”, you know, since this guy wouldn’t have murdered his family had he not lost a few bucks. :sarcasm:
It is very stranger, isn’t it? A guy had an account with 888 killed his family is the reason to decry online casino. If it is causality, why not close land based casinos?
A massachusetts prosecutor trying a murder isn’t the federal government, it’s count prosecutor. I’m also sure the “hundreds” of dollars was a type, likely “hundreds of thousands”. I remember this case, the house wasn’t a middle/working class home, it was an estate.
sure politicians will use all sorts of “facts” to prove their point. I’m sure it if someone killed you friends or relatives, you’d want the prosecutor to purse the case, even to a casino like 888.
I think the “conspiracy” talk is a bit out of place in this case.
BTW desperate people, sometimes gamblers, do things like this. I have a friend who was host at MGM detroit who kept up with his clients, even after he left the job. One day a client called, asked him to lunch. He went, the man seemed to be behaving a bit strange. The next day he heard the news, the guy went home and ended it for himself and even worse his family.
That story isn’t about gambling, it’s about addiction and a person who’s emotions went out of control.
The big “crime” of the media and politicians, is treating the source of the addiction as the problem, rather the disease of addiction itself.
