Sitting on a hard mattress inside his prison cell, Daniel Fincham was hit by two things. First, a crippling hangover. Second, the realisation he’d lost everything – his wife, his kids and the house he just tried to burn down.
The dad-of-three had struggled with alcohol abuse since his teenage years. His complicated relationship with the substance began when he was just 15, describing his first sip as “love at first drink”.
But what started out as drinking at the weekend turned into drinking non-stop. Before he knew it, Daniel found himself consuming up to four bottles of wine a day, throwing up his stomach lining every morning just to make himself feel better.
