A mother has called on the government to 'stop payday loan firms targeting students' and offer low-interest loans after her son took an overdose when his debt increased to eight times the amount he had borrowed.
A mother has called on the government to 'stop payday loan firms targeting students' after her son took an overdose of pills when his £100 debt rocketed to £800 in three months.
Sharon Lewis, of Aberdare, urged the government to offer short-term low interest loans to stop 'desperate' people from falling victim to payday loan companies.
Her son Courtney Mitchell Lewis, 21, swallowed an overdose of slimming pills after his loan spiralled to eight times the amount he had borrowed.
After taking the pills, Courtney posted a message to friends on Facebook saying: "I don't want to die, I think it is too late."
His friends called the emergency services and he was taken to A&E, but the inquest heard it was too late to save him.
Rain clipping the far north through the evening but elsewhere staying dry with some sunny spells.
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Photos taken on Saturday morning show Roald Dahl Plass strewn with empty beer bottles and discarded canisters of laughing gas.