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A teacher whose gambling addiction saw him rack up250,000 of debt and once bet and lose 50,000 on a single horse at Cheltenham has turned his life around after hitting rock bottom and wanting to end it all.
Patrick Foster, 33, of Oxford, started betting casually with friends at Durham University, but it spiralled out of control when, after moving to London and landing a well-paid job in the City, he won 35,000 in one hit.
At that point his relationship with gambling changed and he began chasing big wins – betting increasingly larger sums of money and falling further into debt. After changing careers and becoming a teacher, he began borrowing money off his students’ parents and his colleagues.
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