article_snippet: Before she illness she mother, to whom she had been very close, often showered she with presents, she told Central London County Court.
article_snippet: she was always buying me things like mink coats and jewellery
article_snippet: But she said she mother’s gambling addiction turned she into ‘a harridan with a capital H’ and
article_snippet: During she final years, her mother’s had visited casinos every night and even resorted to stealing gambling chips, Mrs Day claimed.
highlights_snippet: Mrs Russell had 'extreme gambling habit' and went to casinos every day .
  