Warnings, treatment and information about the dangers of gambling were “woefully inadequate” before a young English teacher killed himself, a coroner has concluded.
Sheffield coroner David Urpeth said Jack Ritchie’s death in Vietnam in November 2017 is a “stark reminder of the terrible consequences that can flow from an addiction to gambling.”
A two-week long inquest in the city heard how Jack was 24 when he died after years of battling a gambling disorder which started when he began using fixed odds betting terminals aged 16 or 17.
