Call for UK gambling reform after ‘generous and caring’ woman takes her own life

Ellen Mulvey, who struggled with a chronic gambling addiction, ‘always put other people first’, according to her partner, Deanne Tomkins. Photograph: PA

A family is calling for wholesale reform of the gambling industry after an inquest heard details of the life and death of Ellen Mulvey, a “generous and caring” woman with a high-flying City job who also had a secret addiction.

Mulvey’s family believe she lost hundreds of thousands of pounds gambling without their knowledge, first via mainstream operators and then on unlicensed platforms.