Snooker player Mark King has lost his appeal against a five-year ban for match-fixing, imposed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. The ban followed an independent committee ruling him guilty of match-fixing and providing insider information linked to suspicious betting on his match against Joe Perry in February 2023. King contested the punishment citing various arguments, but the independent appeals committee upheld the initial disciplinary committee's conclusions, emphasizing their careful consideration of the evidence and reasoning in their final report. Consequently, King's ban remains in effect.
Nowhere in this appeal has it been demonstrated that a factual decision is so wrong it could not have been reached, or an evaluative decision is so wrong that it can be said to be unreasonable.
In our view the committee reached reasonable, rational, logical, clear and reasoned conclusions based on all of the evidence which they clearly considered carefully and we find no reason to interfere with the conclusions it reached.
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