Bookmakers lock poor b*stard in chemical toilet for 10 years

But, fearing accusations of cheating, bookmakers kept Bibby under lock and key somewhere in the North Sea.

With remote access to the Racing Field Book, Bibby selected winners that would consistently provide bookmakers with zero, or close to no payout.

Sea Lion Costume

In case anyone spotted him when venturing outside the booth for daily exercise, Bibby’s captors forced him to wear a sea lion costume.

Although Mugbet would send weekly food packages, Bibby has survived since 2003 catching fish and begging the occasional titbit from passing trawlers.

Trawler man Gareth Timms said: “I thought he was a porpoise. We’d chuck him the occasional mackerel and a fag. I did think it was strange when he smoked 100 B&H a day."

Captured 16 years ago, the former panel beater who was forbidden to communicate with the outside world, sobbed as he was unmasked as the face behind crooked results on bookmakers’ ‘cartoon racing’.

Bibby said: “I was kidnapped after backing a winner in a Mugbet shop. They put a bag over my head, tasered me and I ended up in the back of a van.”

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“A man in a wheelchair, wearing a mask and stroking a cat approached me before he put me in the booth. He said he would throw me in with the sharks if I refused.”

Sorry

“I’m sorry for all your lost cash, but they made me do it” Bibby said as rescue services airlifted him to a secure location.

A spokesman for Mugbet said: “This is very distressing news for us."

"We will suspend all virtual racing until we can find someone else to press the buttons”

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