Fifty eight year old Raymond Mandale made a very drastic decision after realizing that he had a compulsive gambling problem where he lost thousands of pounds. He would tell his wife that he was going to the shops and then nip down to the local bingo club and play the fruit machines. He realized that he had a problem after losing more than ₤10 000 in one year at the bingo club.
His decision was to undergo radical brain surgery, in a six hour operation and ₤30 000 later the father of two had had a “neuron” stimulator fitted into his brain. The battery operated stimulator is designed to send electrical messages into the area of the brain that motivates the desire to gamble.
Mr Mandale spent a small fortune at the Opera Bingo in Workington, the operations company of the club made a statement that they complied with the Gambling Act and operations manager at the bingo club, Shaun Edwards stated that they do practice a self-exclusion scheme where people are kept informed of how to control their gambling. But they had no idea that Raymond had such a huge problem.
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