Snooker: Stephen Lee faces match-fix charges
STEPHEN LEE will start the fight to save his snooker career tomorrow when he faces the independent tribunal body Sports Resolutions in Bristol on seven charges of frame and match-fixing.
Lee, 38, is charged with seven counts of frame and match-fixing dating back to 2008, including one at the world championships in 2009.
The five-time ranking event winner and former world No.5 from Wiltshire, suspended for almost a year, denies all charges. Lee faced a long police probe before the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case.
But snooker's Integrity Unit at the governing body, the WPBSA, then conducted their own investigation, resulting in the charges.
When four-time world champion John Higgins appeared at a similar tribunal in 2010 he was cleared of any match-fixing, but banned for six months and fined £75,000 on lesser rules breaches.
If Lee is found guilty of any or all charges he could expect a heavy penalty - even a life ban.