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Local dad who lost his son to suicide on changing gambling regulations

Published: Oct. 27, 2017, 10:32 a.m.

Mick Coyle was joined by John Myers from Huyton on Liverpool Live to talk about changing gambling regulations.

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John's son, Ryan, took his own life after building up huge gambling debts. It was only after his death his family found out he had taken out loans to pay for his gambling habit and John says that more needs to be done by the gambling industry to help addicts.

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Find out more about John's petition here: https://www.change.org/p/british-government-regulate-the-gambling-industry-more-robustly-especially-where-advertising-and-online-gambling-is-concerned-the-adverts-on-uk-tv-always-infer-that-gambling-is-socially-acceptable-and-that-everyone-is-a-winner-it-never-shows-the-deva