{"id":29216,"date":"2025-04-10T05:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T09:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29216"},"modified":"2025-04-10T05:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T09:14:01","slug":"the-betting-tycoon-who-preyed-on-women-and-hurt-them-for-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/04\/10\/the-betting-tycoon-who-preyed-on-women-and-hurt-them-for-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"The betting tycoon who preyed on women and hurt them for pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ex-partner of a millionaire horse racing tipster who “tortured” women and filmed the abuse has warned someone could die if he is not stopped.<\/b><\/p>\n

Kevin Booth was given a worldwide travel ban after a Scottish civil court heard that he attacked his victims in an underground chamber at his remote Highland home and in foreign hotel rooms.<\/p>\n

Tammy Conner – who said she was beaten by Booth for four years from the age of 16 – has now decided to speak out in the hope that other women will come forward.<\/p>\n

Another woman who worked for Booth at Lochdhu Lodge in Caithness told BBC Scotland News she had to sign a contract allowing him to “punish” her.<\/p>\n

Tammy, who is now 44, said: “One of these days he is really going to hurt someone and they are going to end up dead or they are going to kill themselves.<\/p>\n

“He shouldn’t be getting away with it any more.”<\/p>\n

Booth, 65, described Tammy’s allegations as “laughable” and said he had never been arrested, charged or convicted of domestic violence or abuse.<\/p>\n

However, the sheriff who heard the travel ban case<\/a>\u00a0described the footage Booth had filmed as “utterly harrowing” and said his conduct amounted to “trafficking and exploitation”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Warning: This story features details which viewers may find upsetting<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tammy was 16 when she spotted an advert in her local paper in 1997: “Models required for race meetings.”<\/p>\n

Booth, who founded horse racing tips service Isiris, gave the teenager a job at his office in Keighley, West Yorkshire. She said he told her during the interview that she had “nice eyes”.<\/p>\n

The work was a combination of office duties and attending race meetings at courses across England and as far north as Perth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kevin Booth pictured outside Lochdhu Lodge in Altnabreac, a small community in Caithness, in 1995 (Image: Peter Jolly \/ NORTHPIX)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Booth, whose business was built on premium rate phone lines, had made a name for himself as a top tipster.<\/p>\n

In 1997 he told the Sunday Times: “I was making more money betting than through my salary so I decided it was best to pack in teaching and bet.”<\/p>\n

But his career change was also prompted by his 1994 conviction for caning children at the private school he ran with his then wife in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland.<\/p>\n

His three-month jail term was suspended for two years but by this time he had become so successful that some course bookies refused to take his bets.<\/p>\n

Tammy said she was one of a number of girls who were driven to the racing in a limo and plied with alcohol throughout the day.<\/p>\n

“Then he’d suddenly try and kiss you or something. If you said no he’d say you had a punishment,” she said.<\/p>\n

“With me he gave me three envelopes and told me to pick one.<\/p>\n

“So I picked one and my punishment for not kissing him or something was 20 lashes with a cane.”<\/p>\n

Tammy recalled being led to a sofa bed in Booth’s office. She noticed a video camera on his desk, which recorded the beating.<\/p>\n

“Every time he hit me I had to say ‘please sir’ or ‘Thank you, sir’.<\/p>\n

“And if I didn’t say ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ he would start again.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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