The betting tycoon who preyed on women and hurt them for pleasure

The former companion of a Tipster of Millionaire Horse Race who “tortured” women and filmed the abuse warned someone might not stop it.

Kevin Booth received a world -travel prohibition after a Scottish civil court heard that he attacked his victims in an underground chamber in his remote Highland house and in foreign hotel rooms.

Tammy Conner, who said she was beaten by Booth for four years from the age of 16, has now decided to speak with the hope that other women are presented.

Another woman who worked for Booth in Lochdhu Lodge in Caithness tolerated the BBC Scotland News, had to sign a contract that would allow her to “punish her.”

Tammy, who is now 44, said: “One of these days will really hurt some and will end up dead or kill Thiselves.”

“He should go out with his.”

Booth, 65, described Tammy’s accusations as “ridiculous” and said he had never arrested, accused or convicted of violence or domestic abuse.

However, the sheriff heard the Travel prohibition case Description of the stock of images had filmed as “completely heartbreaking” and said that his behavior was equivalent to “traffic and exploitation.”

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Tammy was 16 when he saw an ad in the local newspaper in 1997: “Models necessary for career meetings.”

Booth, who founded the Isiris Horse Race Tips Service, cools to the teenager a job in his office in Keighty, West Yorkshire. She said she told her the interview she had “good eyes.”

The work was a combination of office duties and attending racing meetings in Courses in England and to northern Perth.

Booth, whose business was based on the premium rate telephone lines, had made a name for himself as a better Tipster.

In 1997 he told the Sunday Times: “I was earning more money betting than through my salary, so I decided that it was quite packing in teaching and bet.”

But his career change was also promoted by his sentence in 1994 by Caning’s children in the private school he led with his then wife in Newbiggin-by-the-sea in Northumberland.

His three -month prison term was suspended for two years, but at this time he had a bee so successful that some betting runners refused to take their bets.

Tammy said it was one of several girls who were taken to the races in a limousine and put alcohol during the day.

“Then I would suddenly try to kiss you or something. If you said no, I would say you had a punishment,” he said.

“With me he gave me three envelopes and told me to choose one.

“So I chose one and my punishment for not kissing it or something was 20 lashes with a cane.”

Tammy remembered being taken to a sofa bed at the Booth office. She noticed a video camera on her desk, which recorded the beating.

“Every time he hit me, I had to say ‘please sir’ or ‘thank you, sir’.

“And if I didn’t say” please “or” thank you, “I would start again.”

Tammy said she was once beaten for kissing Booth’s friend in the races.

She said: “It is simply used like this. But I didn’t do it at the time he was also doing it to the other girls.

“I thought it was just me.

“We were 16 years old. We were children. Hello, they prepared us all.”

Tammy added: “Some times, he heard me hit me, I was so sore. It was black and blue. I could barely walk or sit down. It was horrible.”

He said he would pay him extra for the beatings and that his signature contracts said he consented.

Hey, he also urged Tammy to sleep with him, and a year after taking the job he discovered that she was pregnant.

Tammy said Booth was “happy” in the news and told him that he no longer had to work in the office.

But another incident after the birth of his second child in 2000, which involved a riding harvest, left it with brands on the back, the lower part and the legs.

She said: “After doing that, I said:” You are not doing it again. I have children now. “

The beatings stopped, but Booth had other goals.

His world any Vally implio on the day of the Great National in April 2000 when the West Yorkshire police raided the family home.

Later, Tammy was told that a Brazilian Au Pair alleged that Booth showed him a homemade video of him whipping the buttocks of a woman and warned that he would be “severely punished” if he did not obey him.

The next day, the 27 -year -old said she was indentedly attacked in her office.

The businessman said the meeting was consensual, but a jury in Bradford Crown Court only 80 minutes to condemn him. He was imprisoned for two years.

Tammy said that after his release they moved to Vermont in the United States, before returning to live in Booth’s property in the Scottish highlands.

His new home was Lochdhu Lodge in Altnabreac, a small community in Caithness. It was good in 1895 as a hunting cabin in one of the most remote inhabited parts of Great Britain.

Accessible only by a private land track, the house has no neighboring properties and offers complete privacy.

In 2010, Booth obtained permission from the Highland Council to build an underground camera in Lodge.

The civil trial said the entrance was through a kick and a curved concrete tunnel 60 m long. It contains an empty coffee, natural -size Egyptian figures and a metal bank.

Tammy said some years later faced Booth after finding a suitcase containing sex toys and underwear for women.

She said: “He told me that because I did it with him, I would find other women who would, and he would pay them.”

Tammy and Booth separated in 2016, but settled in contact.

She said she knew that women were being beaten in the shelter and that she had encouraged them to go to the police.

Tammy never reported that Booth in 2016 was convicted of a violation of peace against him. The court admonished her and released her without further punishment.

At the beginning of 2018, a European woman was tasks like a Booth maid.

The woman, whom we call Marta, told BBC Scotland News that she was summarized to the Booth office a few weeks after starting her work.

She said then ash to massage her “private parts.”

Marta refused, but said they said: “If you are not willing to do this, you will not receive more salaries. If you do this, you will receive more pay.”

She agreed with the application because she needed the money.

Marta says that a new contract was then presented.

He said he could be “punished” if he did something.

Marta’s first offensive, in Booth’s eyes, was a chicken dinner he did.

She said he hit her “really hard” at the bottom and then used a brush to hit her.

“I couldn’t sit for a couple of days,” Marta added.

Booth informed the police in 2019, but the crown office left the case against him in 2021.

But after the recent civil action, Marta said she hoped that sharing her story inspires others to present themselves.

“I am talking because to save other girls from that horrible man.”

The case of the Civil Court in February brought Booth’s behavior to the total gaze of advertising.

The Scotland Police successively increased civil action under the laws of trafficking and exploitation of people to prohibit it from traveling outside the United Kingdom.

The sentence said that Booth communicated with economically vulnerable women in Skype and organized to meet them in places like South Africa, Dubai, Sri Lanka and the Philippines.

He paid them to travel to the United Kingdom, where they were subjected to violent “punishments.”

He added: “Some of the messages explicitly mentioned the payment to send to the Poles.”

The sentence also said that Booth applied “financial pressure” on a woman to withdraw an accusation of rape in Ireland.

Detectives recovered 341 videos at home with beaten women.

It was described that a 18 -minute attack against a woman who apparently could not escape was “nothing more.”

The trial also referred to his time working as a teacher in Botswana in the 1980s, when he “Can many students and enjoyed doing it.”

Booth will return to court next week for a case of sexual communication.

He has denied the charges against him.

Tammy said he would be willing to talk with detectives about his experiences.

She said: “He just seems to go out with his because he is rich. He will never stop it.”

Tammy urged women who have been beaten by Booth, many of whom can now be living abroad, to contact the police.

She added: “He should be in prison.”

The crown office concluded in 2021 that there should be no more criminal processes in relation to Marta’s complaint, but a spokesman said she reserved the right to prosecute in the future.

They added: “We are working in close collaboration with the Scotland Police in additional investigations.”

DET SUTVEN BERTRAM said the order of risk of traffic and exploitation was requested in an attempt to avoid “any additional offense.”

He added: “Traffic and exploitation are a blight in our communities and it does not take place in society and we will use all open resources for us to address it.

“Time is not a barrier to justice and we would always be anyone with concerns or information so that they present themselves and we would have spoken.”

In response, Kevin Booth said Tammy’s accusations about his behavior were “something ridiculous.”

He said that he had legs victims of domestic abuse in her hands and that she had “exercised coercive and controlling behavior by re -speaking my activities.”

Booth said he had no complaints, judgments, charges or convictions against him for domestic violence or abuse.

He said that Marta’s accusations “were not correct” and that he had “evidence in that regard.”

Booth added: “When real evidence was placed before the crown office, they said they were not going to process.”

Hello, he also said that the civil court ruling was still subject to an appeal and, as results, he could not comment on it at this stage.

Additional reports of IAIN Macinnes and Liam Connell.

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