Top boxer's fate is in the balance

MATT JENNINGS has been suspended pending an inquiry by boxing's governing body – but the Amalgamated Boys Club yesterday said that they are being kept in the dark.

The island's leading boxer (pictured) pleaded guilty in the Magistrate Court two weeks ago to possessing class A and class B drugs and was fined £1,000.

The matter went to the Amateur Boxing Association of England, whose national child protection and equity manager, Barry Jones, originally said that they dealt with each case as it comes and that the punishments were not set in stone.

Yesterday, he said that the ABAE's Western Counties Association were now dealing with the issue.

'He is now subject to an interim suspension, which is exclusion from all activities in amateur boxing,' he said.

But according to the Amalgamated Boys Club's chairman Dave Hadlington, this was news to them.

'We've heard nothing from the ABA,' he said.