Wayne Warren has received a replica of the BDO World Championship trophy after nearly £2,000 was raised through a crowdfunding campaign.
Earlier this year, Warren had the original trophy collected by the police after refusing to return it which saw chairman, Des Jacklin receive criticism for driving all the way to Wales to collect it.
'Yank' held the trophy without returning it out of dissatisfaction with the prize money received. Normally, the BDO World Champion receives £100,000 in prize money but after the tournament moved away from the Lakeside and due to financial difficulties, he only received £23,000.
Fans decided to help him and started a crowdfunding campaign to get him the trophy he deserves and last Friday, that was delivered to Warren who looks to defend or pass it on to the next champion in the future.
Wayne Warren has now received a replica of the BDO World Championship trophy as around £2000 was raised to create the replica via a GoFundMe page. Warren has described it as ‘The People’s Trophy’ and the Welshman has said he intends to defend the trophy in the near future!
