Burnett and Maguire Referred to prosecutors

According to the BBC Website

Police have referred 5 men over to prosecutors and burnett and maguire are included.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 620652.stm

UPDATED

If guilty both should receive the same punishment as hann

Mate When putting up a story give us a link

You know whats frustrating about all of this pathetic soap opera last year this story broke http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/ap ... tt-betting on 17th of April with the World Championship on the 18th....

WHY THE HELL 12 months on same thing happening what are the police doing all year tweedling their bastard thumbs or what ?

sorry there is no link its a headline only on bbc website at this stage

They must have some sort of evidence to get it to this stage

INNOCENT ! (I hope.)

case_master wc wrote:They must have some sort of evidence to get it to this stage

its 18 months since the match what evidence they got today they didnt 12 months,6 months or last month.....why before the WC last 2 years its incompitence if nothing else.

wildJONESEYE wrote:

case_master wc wrote:They must have some sort of evidence to get it to this stage

its 18 months since the match what evidence they got today they didnt 12 months,6 months or last month.....why before the WC last 2 years its incompitence if nothing else.

Yes you could say the timing of this has been very poor indeed

Poor ? It's disgraceful IMO, wild is completely right, what possesses them to bring this up again DAYS before the biggest tournament in the year ? If it's something significant, then yeh arrest the chameleons and throw them out of the game but it's not, they're just doing it to disrupt the damn tournament and it's not fair.

lol

its poor one year 2 years its boarding on atempted sabotage of the WC.

what nationality was Hann........?

GJtheaussiestud wrote:If guilty both should receive the same punishment as hann

Also this is very unfair on the players given they are innocent until proven guilty. IMO this now makes Mark Allen fav to win his quarter

Allen vs Ebdon QF for me

did the Peter Francisco and Quinten hann cases get as far as charges ?

cant remember if they didnt then to be fair Burnett or both should have a ban here.

Bourne wrote:Allen vs Ebdon QF for me

Lee is very capable on his day and with Maguire's comments about him the other day SL would undoubtedly be fired up anyway. Now this latest revelation will surly pile the pressure onto a player who is suspect under the cosh.

Dotty

wildJONESEYE wrote:lol

its poor one year 2 years its boarding on atempted sabotage of the WC.

Maybe somebody higher up in the Met has had a bet on.

Seriously, though, they've dragged this on long enough. "Strathclyde Police have conducted a 17-month investigation into the match." What the hell were they investigating that it took 17-months? Lunacy. If there's enough reasonable evidence, why did it take them nigh-on a year and a half to decide?

But what I found more interesting in the article was this quote; "A statement from Strathclyde Police's economic crime unit read: "Five males aged 35, 34, 31, 31 and 29 are the subject of a police report that is being submitted to the Procurator Fiscal. " Who do we think the other three are?

is Lee Doyle involved

SnookerFan wrote:

wildJONESEYE wrote:lol

its poor one year 2 years its boarding on atempted sabotage of the WC.

Maybe somebody higher up in the Met has had a bet on.

Seriously, though, they've dragged this on long enough. "Strathclyde Police have conducted a 17-month investigation into the match." What the hell were they investigating that it took 17-months? Lunacy. If there's enough reasonable evidence, why did it take them nigh-on a year and a half to decide?

But what I found more interesting in the article was this quote; "A statement from Strathclyde Police's economic crime unit read: "Five males aged 35, 34, 31, 31 and 29 are the subject of a police report that is being submitted to the Procurator Fiscal. " Who do we think the other three are?

Fiscal crime is a very difficult area to investigate because more often than not "cleaning" money involves connections "abroad" including, and even preferably, in countries (so called fiscal paradises) that are not too adamant to collaborate with the Justice on those matters. So 17 months doesn't look excessive to me.

mon it was a nothing snooker match between 2 friends they should have not had to look ferther than the scottish border.

it was not a Ding v Ronnie match where possibly had a more wider betting apeal.

wildJONESEYE wrote:mon it was a nothing snooker match between 2 friends they should have not had to look ferther than the scottish border.

it was not a Ding v Ronnie match where possibly had a more wider betting apeal.

That doesn't mean much though. Surely if you were going to organise this, you wouldn't do it on a match the whole world was watching. It'd make it more easily detectable.

If there is anything in this though, what kind of muppet would Maguire have to be, considering he was world number 2 at the time? Especially considering they knew this match was under investigation 24 hours before it started.

what is the most scary thing if this is true they did it knowing Ebdon v Wenbo was already being investigated after only about 2 months

it has to go down as pure stupidaty.

I would've put money on the police choosing the week before the World Championships to leak such information. Brilliant, just what we need.

Innocent till proven guilty and all that but im pretty certain what the outcome will be, wont b a surprise at all

I am not letting myself get drawn into negative vibe stuff regarding the future of the game or betting scandals. I'm here for the buzz, and nothing will stop me .......

One has to feel that this isn't going to have a happy outcome.

IMO, if there was no substance to the charges they wouldn't lay them after so much time. I suspect it's taken a while to completely examine the finances and they've now got something of substance.

Regardless of how it turns out, horrendous time to announce something like this.

sickpotter wrote:One has to feel that this isn't going to have a happy outcome.

IMO, if there was no substance to the charges they wouldn't lay them after so much time. I suspect it's taken a while to completely examine the finances and they've now got something of substance.

Regardless of how it turns out, horrendous time to announce something like this.

17 of April 2009 and 15 of April 2010 yes great timimg

GJtheaussiestud wrote:If guilty both should receive the same punishment as hann

agreed

It's got to be bullocks, surely.

I mean I could understand why somebody as low-ranked as 40 might be tempted, but for them to lay a score-line where the loser won three frames, then Maguire would have to be in on it too, otherwise how could Burnett be sure of winning three?

What the hell would Maguire have to gain from doing this as world number 2? And as has been said, why would they do this a couple of months after Ebdon got investigated, and also to not abort the plan 24 hours before the match when they found out they were under investigation? Especially considering nobody claimed on the winning bets anyway.