Facebook post from Nonito Donaire's father-in-law, Gerry Herrera Marcial: November 3rd was the happiest day celebrating 61 years of my life. It started with a pre-fight celebration of my birthday, the win of my son-in-law Nonito Donaire [over Sean Burnett in Glasgow, Scotland], and the after-party celebration of both the win and my birthday. This joyful celebration was muddied by Scotland 's BetFred betting post who does not want to pay out my winning wager. As usual, I would wager on my son in law, more than because I used my lucky birthday money, I surmised that even though Nonito was the underdog, he has a strong chance of a knockout or a win due to his punching power. Thus a bet for a win and a separate bet for win via knockout. BetFred willingly accepted the bet since I was betting on the underdog. After the win, the following day I tried to collect but was told they were low on cash and I needed to return the following day. 

Unable to return because of my flight, I gave my winning ticket to my daughter to claim. For numerous days, different reasoning was given to her by BetFred for not being able to pay out. Lastly Betfred tried to challenge her mentally thinking she had lack of education of the rules governed by BBBofC and saying that because I'm family, I could be putting Nonitos boxing license in jeopardy. They must not know my daughter very well and I am sure she gave them an earful. She noted they kept using the reasoning that she is "American" she doesn't understand, whereas she started to cite British regulations and even had the number in which it stated the rule of the [licensee] not being able to place bets (meaning Nonito himself of course cannot bet on himself) but that did not affect me because I'm not stepping into the ring. 

It is funny that they say this since adjacent to their store front, another betting establishment took part of our bet and immediately paid when asked. This is illegal and [BetFred] trying to bully us around and discriminate against us just because we are American. It's not right. And let's just put it this way, if I lost my bet, could I have gone back in and said I wanted my money back because I'm his father in law? No of course not.

Bottom line.....DON'T BETFRED...you'll get screwed.