Snooker: Stephen Lee ‘devastated’ after 12 year match-fixing ban
STEPHEN LEE has seen his career effectively ended after being banned for 12 years and ordered to pay £40,000 in costs over the sport’s biggest corruption scandal.
Lee, 38, who intends to appeal, was told he cannot play until 2024 after being found guilty last week on seven counts of match-fixing.
The game’s governing body, the WPBSA, called it “the worst case of corruption” they had seen. But Lee protested his innocence and said:
"I am devastated at what’s happened here.
“I’m going to be with a QC on Friday morning and we are going to look at the whole picture and start making some big holes. They’ve got no facts. It’s just unbelievable.
“Eleven months of this is outrageous. My kids are getting picked on at school.
“Snooker is all I know, it’s a game that I love. My career’s over. My dad could beat me when I’m 50.”