A couple from Wiltshire whose son took his own life after running up huge gambling debts are calling for changes in the law to stop betting sites sponsoring sports teams.
Josh Jones became addicted to gambling, and eventually ran up a debt of more than 30,000.
Despite treatment and the support of his family, an inquest found the 23-year-old he had taken his own life.
“He was borrowing from friends and on this last day he’d taken the day off work because it was payday, to gamble his whole month’s salary, plus the 1,000 bonus he had that month,” his mother Kim Jones told ITV News.
“He would have just thought I can’t get money from anywhere else I’ve got to live another month before I get another payslip, this is it.”
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