As governments across B.C. ponder expanding casinos, CTV News has learned a suicide after a huge theft from a Victoria-area volunteer soccer association was related to gambling.
The B.C. Coroners Service found gambling was one of the risk factors that led the long-time president of the Gorge Soccer Association, Terry Marra, to kill himself just as other members of the club were discovering how much money was missing.
He was a real pillar of the club for a long time. For a lot of people this was a real shock when this happened, said Andrew Wynn-Williams, a club spokesperson.
The agency has recorded Marras death as just one of 18 suicides in a four-year period that the agency believes are gambling related, acc…
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