Dom Taylor has been given a six-month suspension for failing a medication check throughout the PDC World Championship in December.
A press release from the Darts Regulation Authority confirmed that the 27-year-old had admitted breaching anti-doping guidelines.
At a listening to on 7 January, the DRA Disciplinary Committee mentioned it was “happy that Taylor’s ingestion of each cocaine and hashish occurred out of competitors and was not following the graduation of the World Championship”.
Taylor had beforehand served a one-month ban following a failed medicine check in direction of the top of 2024 and the sanction for his second offence is in step with UK Anti-Doping’s (Ukad) guidelines.
Englishman Taylor had gained his first-round match towards Oskar Lukasiak however information of his failed medicine check and suspension was launched earlier than his scheduled second-round match towards Jonny Clayton.
Welshman Clayton, who was the fifth seed at Alexandra Palace, obtained a bye by to spherical three in consequence.
Taylor later posted on Fb to say he was “sincerely sorry” for his actions, that his psychological well being had been affected by a lot of private traumas and that he can be “getting the assistance” he wanted.
On account of the findings, Taylor forfeited his £25,000 prize cash for reaching the second spherical of the World Championship.
That meant he dropped simply exterior the highest 64 within the PDC’s world rankings and has subsequently misplaced his PDC tour card for 2026.
