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| Full name | Edward Hankey | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "The Count" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 February 1968 Stoke-on-Trent, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Darts information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing darts since | 1977 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Darts | 16g Winmau Ted Hankey | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Walk-on music | "Be on Your Way" by DJ Zany | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO | 1996–2012, 2014–2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC | 2009-2011, 2012–2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF | 2014–2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF major events – best performances | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Ch'ship | Winner (2) 2000, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Masters | Semi-final: 1997, 2003, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Trophy | Quarter-final: 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Int. Darts League | Quarter-final: 2003, 2004, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finder Masters | Runner-up: 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| UK Open | Last 64: 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam | Quarter-final: 2011, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward Hankey (born 20 February 1968) is an English former professional darts player and convicted sex offender. Nicknamed "The Count", he won the BDO World Darts Championship in 2000 and 2009 and was runner-up in 2001.
He moved to the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) in 2012 but suffered a mini-stroke while playing Michael van Gerwen at the 2012 Grand Slam of Darts and took three months away from the sport to recuperate. He lost his PDC tour card in 2014, when he was 94th on the PDC Order of Merit, and returned to the BDO, where he failed to impress in the latter years of his playing career. He made his last appearance at the BDO World Darts Championship in 2016, losing 3–0 in the first round.
Hankey struggled financially in his later career and was declared bankrupt in 2018. In September 2021, he sexually assaulted a girl who was aged over 16 but under 18 at the time. After pleading guilty, he was sentenced in May 2022 to two years in prison and placed on the sex offender registry for ten years.