UK Poker Pro Faces Extradition to US over Wife Killing
Written by Roger S | Friday, November 20th, 2009
A top UK poker professional, who has won hundreds of thousands of dollars at tournaments across the country, has been charged with murdering his wife in the United States and dumping her body twelve years ago.
Marcus Bebb-Jones, the 46 year old professional, owned a hotel in Grand Junction, Colorado together with his non-British wife, Sabrina Bebb-Jones. In 1997, employees of the hotel reported her missing and a few days later, the poker player tried to commit suicide after police questioning.
However, despite the fact that his wife’s blood was found in his car, the police could not determine the whereabouts of Sabrina and the police could not charge him.
Bebb-Jones returned to the United Kingdom with their then-three year old son and then reinvented himself as one of Britain’s top poker tournament players. In 2007, he won the Grosvenor Grand Prix event in Walsal, bagging himself £90K in one single tournament, and went on to make a considerable name for himself on the circuit.
In 2004, Sabrina’s skull was found by hikers but it has taken until now for a US arrest warrant to be issued. This week, Bebb-Jones was arrested at his mother’s home and is expected to be remanded into custody until a judge decides whether he is eligible for extradition to the US before a final decision is made by the Home Secretary.
At a hearing in the United States, a US Government state prosecutor said: “Mr. Bebb-Jones is sought for the murder of his wife. He is responsible for the murder, and the deliberate concealment of it for many years. On the weekend following that incident it is said that Mr. Bebb-Jones went to Las Vegas and spent thousands of dollars – partially using credit cards in his wife’s name. He lived a playboy lifestyle in the course of that weekend which culminated in him putting a gun in his mouth and shooting himself in the head.”
“The upshot is that the case against him is very strong,” said the prosecutor. “This offence is so serious he faces life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.”
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