A former soldier has told how he racked up thousands of pounds of gambling debts after a head injury led him to develop an addictive personality.
Fraser Howie, 25, is now calling for access to online gambling sites to be toughened up after he was left with £12,000 of debt.
Mr Howie, from Paisley, claimed injuries he sustained in a car crash when he was 18 and home on leave radically altered his personality.
He was a passenger in a car which crashed into a tree in the nearby Glennifer Braes Country Park in 2010, with the accident leaving him with a broken neck and spinal fractures, as well as fractures to his skull, eye socket, nose, legs and arms.
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