Speaking to the BBC, she added: "Ollie's gambling was exclusively on football, and football was one of Ollie's biggest passions. The hearing was told Long tried to stop gambling on several occasions and even volunteered as a peer supporter for others affected by gambling. However, in April 2023, he began gambling again, this time using illegal gambling sites that do not hold a licence in the UK and were not blocked by GamStop. He said some of these sites are run by "criminal networks" who are involved with "terrorists and organised crime". "Because of our work we had over 81,000 individual URLs being removed from search engines, a lot of those will have been 'not on GamStop' sites," added Miller.

Source: BBC January 13, 2026 17:54 UTC