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The Guardian // Sport

Mark King hit with five-year ban from snooker and heavy fine for match fixing

Friday 15th November 2024, 11:16AM

Player guilty of providing inside information on matchOther charges relating to separate incident dismissedMark King has been banned from snooker for five years after being found guilty of match-fixing.An independent disciplinary committee found the 50-year-old Englishman guilty of one count of match-fixing and one count of providing inside information on a match. The former Northern Ireland Open champion was suspended by the sport’s world governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, in March 2023 after suspicious betting was reported on his match with Joe Perry in the previous month’s Welsh Open. Continue reading...

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