King gets five-year ban and fine in match-fixing case

Mark King has been banned for 5 years and fined £68,000 aft being recovered blameworthy of lucifer fixing.

An autarkic disciplinary committee recovered the 50-year-old Englishman blameworthy of 1 number of lucifer fixing and 1 number of providing wrong accusation connected a match.

The erstwhile Northern Ireland Open champion was suspended by the sport’s satellite governing body, the WPBSA, connected 18 March, 2023 aft suspicious betting was reported connected his lucifer with Joe Perry connected 13 February, 2023 astatine the Welsh Open.

King, who denied the charges successful the case, has until 28 November to entreaty against the decisions of the autarkic disciplinary committee.