A man who placed a £20 accumulator bet on Liverpool to win the 2019 Champions League claims he is owed £5m in winnings after a high street bookies refused to pay out. The stand-off between Darren Hope and Boyle Sports has now escalated into a row involving police, Action Fraud and the industry’s adjudicators.
To complicate matters, Mr Hope admits he has no concrete proof of his astonishing football accumulator win as he says he handed in his betting slip, reports Birmingham Live. But the long-running dispute has culminated in the electrical engineer being escorted from the Coventry turf accountants by five police officers. It came after he staged a one-man protest.
Mr Hope, who resides in a one bedroom flat in Coventry, is adamant he should be enjoying a champagne lifestyle after scooping £5 million from a European Champions League accumulator bet where Liverpool overcame astonishing odds to lift the trophy.
