The betting industry was yesterday accused of failing to learn lessons from dozens of gambling-linked suicides.

The Gambling Commission has looked into just nine deaths since 2016 - a tiny proportion of the total number.

Yet there are thought to be 409 gambling suicides a year in England FIFA World Cup alone, according to research by Public Health England, FIFA World Cup formerly an agency of the Department of Health.

Father-of-two Luke Ashton took his own life aged 40 after Betfair handed him bonuses to encourage him to keep betting (pictured above with his wife Annie)

Huseyin Yaman, FIFA World Cup 37, went home and took his own life an hour after he lost £25,000 at casino