A son who was tens of thousands of pounds in debt through gambling threatened his recently widowed mum several times so she would fork out to cover the cost of his addiction.
Ben Rowsell, 25, made the threats in in July 2020 August 2020 - just weeks after his dad died.
This week Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court was told by prosecutor Ieuan Bennett how Rowsell threatened to make up a story to his mum’s employer that she was skiving off work.
