Punter claims high street bookies is refusing to pay out on his £5million accumulator bet jackpot

A man who placed a £20 accumulator bet on Liverpool to win the 2019 Champions League claims he is owed £5m in winnings after a high street bookies refused to pay out. The stand-off between Darren Hope and Boyle Sports has now escalated into a row involving police, Action Fraud and the industry’s adjudicators.

To complicate matters, Mr Hope admits he has no concrete proof of his astonishing football accumulator win as he says he handed in his betting slip, reports Birmingham Live. But the long-running dispute has culminated in the electrical engineer being escorted from the Coventry turf accountants by five police officers. It came after he staged a one-man protest.

Mr Hope, who resides in a one bedroom flat in Coventry, is adamant he should be enjoying a champagne lifestyle after scooping £5 million from a European Champions League accumulator bet where Liverpool overcame astonishing odds to lift the trophy.

He claims the fortune has failed to materialise, because the bookies lost his betting slip. Mr Hope says that on May 3, 2019, he placed £20 with Boyle Sports on a wager that would conclude with Liverpool beating Spurs for the trophy.

It was a bold punt as Liverpool had already lost the first leg of their semi-final against Barcelona 3-0. The odds, he claims, were: Liverpool to beat Barcelona 4-0 at Anfield at 400 to 1. They won 4-0 at Anfield.

The accumulator he says also had Spurs to beat Ajax at 18 to 1 and for Liverpool to then beat Spurs in the final, at that stage priced at 35-1. Both predictions came to fruition.

Boyle Sports have insisted that the bet was never made - and the shop wasn't even launched when Mr Hope claimed he made his bet. But Mr Hope maintains a police log of the protest he staged inside the