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A Gala Bingo caller in Gateshead has now been jailed after being caught trying to defraud the system. It was reported that 29 year old Christian Grant fixed the numbers he would be calling out to match bingo tickets of his two women friends, which resulted in pocketing the trio around £9,000 in cash between them.

All land based bingo clubs use randomly generated numbers from a computer now when playing any game of bingo, so it was pretty hard to see how Christian managed to fix the numbers to match the two ladies bingo cards.......however as they say is anything really totally secure? Apparently Christian switched the random generator machine to manual mode at the Gala Bingo club, allowing him to call out any number he wished!

So it looks like this point has been proved here and will no doubt leave bingo players throughout the world questioning whether the game of bingo really is a fair play as it professed to be. However, we do believe in the fairness of bingo and think that this was an isolated case.

It has to be said that it is people like Christian who can give bingo and the gaming industry as a whole a bad name, but you have to remember, one bad apple does in the bunch, does not speak for all other apples! Bingo has always been about ‘lady luck’ and we hope it will always remain that way.

The trio were found out by a stringent Gala Bingo player who reported their suspicion as to what was taking place at the Gateshead bingo club. Thankfully, Gala Bingo acted very quickly on this information leading to the three people in question all pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud at a Newcastle Crown Court.

Christian Grant was given a 9 month jail sentence, whilst 28 year old Samantha Temple (who has a child with Christian) was given a community order as was the other lady of the trio 29 year old Nandi Ndebele. Nandi was also ordered to do unpaid work.

It is a sad day to hear of such activities taking place in a UK bingo club and this case has no doubt left the bingo industry in shock, as it has us.