Gambling Addiction

Jail term for threatening casino boss


A MAN with a serious gambling addiction, who spent more than €200,000 in deposits collected for debs and grads dances, has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for threatening the owner of a casino where he lost the money.

Mr Buttimer told Judge Angela Ní Chondúin that Brown had a very serious gambling addiction which had led him to defraud students of dance deposit money; he was currently serving a five-year sentence for that offence.