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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1072/
- Published: 2024-10-15T17:30:48.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-15T17:30:47.000Z
- Description: Along with being a contestant, Jakins – as the competition’s top judge, or “King Conker” – was also responsible for drilling and inserting strings into the chestnuts used in the tournament...
- Author: Good Oil Staff

> An investigation is under way at the World Conker Championships after the winner was found with a steel chestnut in his pocket.  
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> UK retiree David Jakins, 82, won the men’s title in Northamptonshire on Sunday for the first time after competing since 1977.  
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> But when Jakins was searched by organisers after his victory they discovered a metal replica in his pocket.  
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> Along with being a contestant, Jakins – as the competition’s top judge, or “King Conker” – was also responsible for drilling and inserting strings into the chestnuts used in the tournament...  
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> Alastair Johnson-Ferguson, 23, who lost in the men’s final against Jakins, told The Telegraph he suspected “foul play”.  
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> “My conker disintegrated in one hit, and that just doesn’t happen,” he said.  
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> “Now it turns out King Conker had a dummy steel conker, so he could have swapped his real conker for that one. Or he could have marked the conker strings to pick out a harder nut.”  
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