Pro Poker Player Facing Charges Over Wife’s Murder
November 19, 2009
A british born professional poker player is looking at the possibility of police call his bluff over his involvement in the murder of his wife.
Marcus Bebb-Jones is being held oin charges that he killed his wife and then used her credit cards to live a playboy style lifestyle in Las Vegas, entering into poker tournaments and playing live ring games.
Bebb-Jones is accused of murdering wife Sabrina after she was reported to be missing by employees of the couple from their hotel business, based in Grand Junction, Colorado.
The guilt of Bebb-Jones seems to have been too much for him after he was found a few days after his wife was reported missing to have tried to take his own life, shooting a gun into his open mouth but somehow managed to stay alive.
Police have release a statement that revealed that they had found Sabrina Bebb-Jones’s blood in her husbands car but they had to release him at the time of finding the evidence due to lack of strength of the evidence and the unknown whereabouts of his wife.
Bebb-Jones told police that he had walked out on his wife with their 3 yeard old son after having a martial bust up but the child was later found in a Las Vegas hotel room alone.
Police continued to pursue the case, later turning up a skull that was confirmed to be that of his wife Sabrina, found on a mountain pass in Colorado, America.
Bebb-Jones had returned to Britain to start a new life with his now 15 year old son by the time the police had tracked him down, finding that the accused had been living a playboy lifestyle with drink and gambling.
The accused murderer has experienced a good amount of success at the poker tables since his new start to life after moving out of America with his son, winning £90,000 in one tournament which took place in Walsall, England.
Bebb-Jones was arrested yesterday morning and will be held with a view to return the British national to the United States of America to face trial after new evidence gives police enough to charge the man.
The professional poker player seems to be set to be denied bail after the prosecuting US Government official lawyer told the judge that Bebb-Jones had already tried to take his own life and so allowing the man to post bail would allow him to try to do so again.
“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 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. Whether by judgement or design he didn’t cause any life-threatening injuries to himself.” said US prosecutor Aron Watkins.
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