Online Poker Surfer: Poker Pro could face extradition in wife’s murder

Poker Pro could face extradition in wife’s murder
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pokersurfer on 05/02/2010 16:25:00
 
Poker player, Marcus Bebb-Jones was arrested in September 2009 in the UK after
the US Government started extradition proceedings against him.
Before his wife Sabrina was murdered, she and Bebb-Jones ran a hotel in Grand
Junction, Colorado. It is alleged that Bebb-Jones murdered Sabrina on September
16, 1997 and in to following days headed to Las Vegas where he ran up credit
cards in both his and Sabrina’s names. In that weekend he also gave different
accounts to several witnesses as to his wife’s whereabouts.
In 2009, Aron Watkins, prosecuting for the US Government told the City of
Westminster Coroner’s Court; “Mr Bebb-Jones is sought for the murder of his
wife. He is responsible for the murder, and the deliberate concealment of it for
many years…He lived a playboy lifestyle in the course of that weekend which
culminated in him putting a gun in his mouth and shooting himself in the head.
Whether by judgement or design he didn’t cause any life-threatening injuries
to himself…The upshot is that the case against him is very strong. This
offence is so serious he faces life imprisonment without the possibility of
parole.”
It was claimed that between his wife’s disappearance and the discovery of her
skull in a field by a Garfield County rancher in 2004, Bebb-Jones “sought no
information as to her whereabouts”, and that he can now be matched to “blood
deposits” found in his van, and by “particular type of thistles found near
the wheel arch” and the field where her skull was found.
The extradition process is likely to take months but, in the meantime a Colorado
prosecutor has agreed not to seek the death penalty in line with England’s
extradition treaty.