Gambling Addict Returns to Prison at 24

Stolen gear mum blew £100k prize
By GUY PATRICK

GREEDY mum who nabbed designer gear looted in the riots won £100,000 on bingo at the age of 19 - and blew the lot within four months.

Gambling addict Ursula Nevin, 24, who was released from prison on Friday, became one of Britain's wealthiest teenagers when her numbers came in.

But last night her mother told how she frittered the cash away on the bingo hall's slot machines.

Lucille Blakeley said: "She is a very, very, very bad gambler.

"The whole 100 grand went back on gambling in the bingo hall. She spent it on £2 slot machines with £100 jackpots. When she went back to the bingo hall we thought she was back playing bingo - we didn't know she was on the machines.

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"Five games would cost a tenner. She was there from 5pm until 11pm so imagine how much money went into the machine and how quickly.

"She gambled the lot in three or four months. They loved her in there for putting money in the machines. They thought she was great."

Mum-of-two Nevin was in bed when looters ran amok in Manchester city centre earlier this month.

But when flatmate Gemma Corbett, 24, returned home from the disorder with a haul worth £625, Nevin picked out a pair of designer Vans shorts for herself.

Police arrested the pair after raiding the house in Stretford, Greater Manchester, a few hours later.

Nevin, who admitted handling stolen goods, was jailed for five months at Manchester Magistrates Court.

She appealed and walked free last week after her punishment was reduced to 75 hours unpaid work, prompting fears that judges were returning to soft sentences.

Call centre worker Corbett admitted burglary on Friday and was jailed for 18 months.