Parents pain after son’s suicide over gambling debts
The parents of a 27-year-old who took his own life after battling a gambling addiction say his death is a “waste of a talented, lovely boy”.
John and Alison Myers shared how their son, Ryan, had sometimes spent all his wages on gambling and was “haemorrhaging money”.
Although Ryan sought to “self-exclude” himself from gambling websites, he continued betting – spending hundreds of pounds on a gambling machine on the day he committed suicide.