The strange thing about that "Who stole Derek's Gnome" market from 1995 was one bet I laid on it which still mystifies me to this day, a lad that I knew from the in-town drinking crowd and wasn't much of a gambler came in around August or Sept looking fer 264 Ir punts on Norris @ 9/4. 264 was a strange amount and would kinda suggest a syndicate, maybe ?
As I knew him I gave him his bet and cut Norris to 7/4. A few months later a staff member rang me to say his sister had been reading up in one of the Red Tops about future episodes of soap operas and they were hinting at Norris being the culprit, so I closed off the market at the start of December, with still a month left to run before all bets were voided.
The early Christmas week episode of Coronation street saw Norris being accused and denying the theft and then eventually on the 28th of December episode he admitted to the theft handing Derek back his Gnome, just a few days before the bet would have been voided.
The 600 notes loss is of no concern to me, but it still bugs me as to where he got his imformation from and how it came so close to the end.
