Solicitors expect Fallon to be cleared

Solicitors acting for Kieren Fallon said this evening they expect the six-times champion jockey to be cleared of any allegations of race-fixing following his arrest today.

Fallon, Fergal Lynch and Darren Williams, plus trainer Karl Burke, were among 16 people detained in dawn raids following an operation co-ordinated by City Of London police.

Fallon was later released on bail from Bury St Edmunds police station and whisked away in a car. He will be required to attend a police station in London in two months’ time.

In a statement, his solicitor Christopher Stewart-Moore said: “Kieren Fallon has not been charged with any offence.

“Following an interview with the police in Bury St Edmunds he has been released without charge.

“The circumstances that relate to his arrest involve an individual who Kieren Fallon has met on one occasion and whose name he did not even know at the time the meeting happened.

“This was during the course of a 10-minute car journey from Leicester races to the airport at Leicester, where he then flew on to an evening meeting at Windsor.

“During this car journey Kieren Fallon did not speak to the individual concerned.

“In the circumstances, we do not anticipate that this matter will be taken any further by the police.”