Jim Bentley

Jim Bentley Octochamp Statistics
Final position	Quarter-finalist
Seeding	4
Points total	756
Conundrums solved	5

Jim Bentley (1971-2022) was an octochamp in Series 50.

In 2020, he was given a sixteen-month prison sentence (suspended for two years), after being convicted of possessing Category A: child pornography.

Bentley died of a stroke in August 2022.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
3542	28/08/2003	P	Brian McKeon	70 – 79	Jim Bentley	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Pam Ayres	Susie Dent	116
3543	29/08/2003	P	Jim Bentley	101 – 51	Alison Ross	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Pam Ayres	Susie Dent	125
3544	1/09/2003	P	Jim Bentley	90 – 89	Stuart Lightfoot	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Pam Ayres	Susie Dent	120
3545	15/09/2003	P	Jim Bentley	112 – 62	Richard Francis	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Richard Digance	Susie Dent	125
3546	16/09/2003	P	Jim Bentley	82 – 66	Diana Smith	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Richard Digance	Susie Dent	131
3547	17/09/2003	P	Jim Bentley	83 – 79	David Moore	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Richard Digance	Susie Dent	120
3548	18/09/2003	P	Jim Bentley	96 – 51	Ruth Edmonds	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Richard Digance	Susie Dent	122
3549	19/09/2003	P	Jim Bentley	113 – 51	Irvine Henderson	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Richard Digance	Susie Dent	119
3611	16/12/2003	QF	Jim Bentley	78 – 88	Adam Laws	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Richard Digance	Susie Dent	118