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Conservative couple admit cheating at gambling over election betting charges
Anthony Lee and Laura Saunders admitted using confidential election timing information, joining a widening gambling probe that has already produced multiple guilty pleas.
- On Thursday, former Conservative director of campaigning Anthony Lee and his wife, parliamentary candidate Laura Lee, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to cheating at gambling regarding the 2024 General Election.
- Anthony Lee passed confidential information to Laura Lee about when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak planned to call the General Election, which she then used to place bets.
- These admissions follow guilty pleas from former MP Craig Williams, who pleaded guilty in June, and Amy Hind, wife of Conservative deputy digital director Anthony Hind, who also admitted to cheating at gambling.
- Anthony Lee, Laura Lee, and Amy Hind are scheduled for sentencing at Southwark Crown Court on October 23, while 10 other defendants face trials in September 2027 and January 2028.
- Former Montgomeryshire MS Russell George has pleaded not guilty to similar charges and lost his seat as an independent in this year's Senedd election after the Conservative Party removed his whip.
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