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Gambling Firms Prioritized Profits Over Suicide Red Flags
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Inquest into Kyle Hudsons Suicide Highlights Gambling Industrys Failure to Protect Vulnerable Users
An inquest in Victoria is investigating the suicide of Kyle Hudson, who set a one million dollar monthly deposit limit on bet365 at eighteen, highlighting the industrys failure to address severe gambling addiction. Entain, which runs Ladbrokes and Neds, cut him off from bonuses due to his wins, while bet365 allowed unlimited deposits. Hudsons partner testified he blew all his savings and begged for bonuses back, but staff saw it as him gaming the system. Over four years, he lost nearly nine hundred thousand dollars on bets, triggering alerts every six weeks at Sportsbet alone, yet they sent him hundreds of inducements. On the day he died, he lost over six thousand dollars on two bets and searched suicide methods online. The inquest is pushing for real safeguards in gambling.
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