Jenny always dreamed of owning her own home. Her family had little money when she was growing up but she trained as an accountant and got a well-paid job, finally buying her own place in 2016.
“I worked really hard to get my career,” she said. “I did a lot of studying and I don’t come from an affluent background. Then I got my own house. When you’re younger you wish for those things and I did that.”
Two years later things started to unravel. A friend got into financial trouble and Jenny tried online slots. “I thought that if we could win some money, everything would be OK,” she said.
Jenny, 40, had grown up around horse racing and had never considered that gambling was anything other than an occasional bit of fun. But the…
