UK slot machine operator fined over cancer patient’s activity

Gambling regulator fines Merkur Slots almost 100,000 for failings at one of its adult gaming centres'

A high street slot machine operator has been fined almost 100,000 by the gambling regulator after the Guardian revealed how staff allegedly exploited a vulnerable cancer patient.

Wendy Hughes, then 64, lost nearly 2,000 in the Stockport branch of Merkur Slots UK over the course of two spells lasting 16 hours in November 2023, months after she was diagnosed with lung cancer.