The widow of a printing industry worker who took his own life after becoming addicted to online gambling has called for a new law to ban free bet offers.
An inquest into the death of Luke Ashton began yesterday (14 June) at Leicester Coroners Court.
Ashton died on 22 April 2021, aged 40.
He was working for Leicester-based Greenshires Group at the time and had been a print finisher at the business for nearly a decade.
Prior to that he worked at web offset printer Artisan Press, also in post-press.
Ashton is survived by his widow Annie and their two children.
He had suffered longstanding problems with gambling and the inquest will consider whether he had a gambling disorder and whether this caused or contributed to his death.
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