Online betting was the ‘direct and paramount’ cause behind Kyle Hudson’s decision to take his own life, inquest finds

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Kyle Hudson was “a young man brimming with promise”, with a loving and supportive partner, family and friends, and prospects.

“It was a near ideal picture – except for the grip that online sports betting had upon him,” the Victorian coroner Paul Lawrie said on Tuesday.