MasterChef’s Jock Zonfrillo reveals the moment he hit rock bottom as a teenage heroin addict – and how Marco Pierre White saved him from a life of misery By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:15 GMT, 25 March 2021 | Updated: 04:15 GMT, 25 March 2021 MasterChef Australia judge Jock Zonfrillo has revealed his … Read more
Susannah Taylor: Are you a screen addict? By Susannah Taylor Published: 00:01 GMT, 21 March 2021 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 21 March 2021 Ask yourself what you are seeking when you scroll, says addictions therapist Patrick Maxwell There’s another pandemic no one seems to be talking about – our addiction to all things digital. One … Read more
A man who ate a takeaway every day for a decade and ballooned to 30st has cut his diet from 7,000 calories a day to 700 – and lost 15st in a year. Joseph Ruthven, 28, from Bradford, said he was a recluse and felt embarrassed to see his mates when he weighed himself at … Read more
A cocaine addict whose reliance on the drug left him feeling ‘worthless’ and suicidal has told how he used the coronavirus lockdown to get clean. Jonathon Macleod, 24, from Motherwell, Scotland, began using at 15 and would regularly take it when out with his friends at pubs and football matches. While he initially became hooked … Read more
Barry West, 40, (pictured) has been found dead from a suspected overdose The tormented youngest son of serial killers Fred and Rosemary West has been found dead from a suspected overdose. Barry West, 40, was just seven when he watched his parents beat his sister Heather to death at their Cromwell Street home in Gloucester. Taken … Read more
Hairdresser’s ‘£86k reward for luring a gambler from rival bookie’: Paddy Power signed deal entitling woman to a fortune for helping to poach betting addict from Ladbroke’s, court papers reveal Paddy Power hired Ericka Carroll as ‘VIP introducer’ to encourage high rollers Husband Tony encouraged Antonio Parente to start betting with Paddy Power It was … Read more
A pregnant mother-of-three was homeless and injecting $500 of heroin and meth every day at the height of her drug addiction – and has now lived to tell the story of her journey to recovery. Single mother Lindsey Kaye Jones, 31, from Augusta, Georgia lives with her 13-year-old son Cameron and twin daughters, Maci and Mackenzi … Read more
A customer adviser for Lloyds bank sold customers’ account details to her friend who was a gambling addict. Jaspreet Marwaha, from Birmingham, gave the information of more than 80 accounts to Mohammed Saif Maqsood, from Blackburn, who paid £50 for each set of card details and swiped between £82,000 and £92,000 from them. At one point the … Read more
Eagle-eyed Coronation Street fans call out blunder as doctors leave morphine out next to drug addict Abi Franklin in hospital after she injures herself By Amelia Wynne For Mailonline Published: 19:21 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 19:27 BST, 22 August 2020 Coronation Street fans were left confused during Friday night’s episode after doctors left … Read more
A ‘troubled’ motorcyclist who gunned down a parish councillor before dying in a police chase worked as a mechanic at a garage just yards down the road from his victim. The gunman named locally as Alex Sartain, 34, shot James Nash, 42, in the front garden of the councillor’s thatched cottage in the pretty Hampshire hamlet of Upper Enham, near … Read more