Mysteriously flush student sues Bet365 for £1m in unpaid winnings

A mysteriously flush student from Belfast is suing UK-licensed online bookmaker Bet365 for refusing to pay out nearly £1m in race betting winnings.

On Sunday, the Telegraph reported on the hard luck tale of one Megan McCann, a 19-year-old Northern Ireland student who somehow found enough money left over after picking up that week’s Ramen noodles to wager nearly £25k on the ponies last June. McCann placed a total of 960 £13 accumulator wagers across four separate races on June 22, 2016, resulting in winnings worth a hefty £985k.

Bet365 originally congratulated McCann on her betting bonanza but then suspended and ultimately closed her account, while declining to transmit McCann’s winnings based on the bookie’s belief that she’d violated the account’s terms and conditions by allowing a third party to fund her betting activity.

Bet365 went as far as to refuse to return McCann’s original betting stake based on the company’s suspicion that McCann is “guilty of criminal offences including fraud by false representation, cheating or attempted cheating.”