Spot on mate. I remember thinking how tough it was growing up in Consett.....but we knew where the trouble was, knew how to deal with it, everyone knew everyone else....trusted your neighbours...how I long for those days.
He made bad decisions, according to social media, many of them. Those decisions may have cost him his life. None of us can say we've never made a bad decision, but, he's might have been beyond what we'd consider stupid or silly.
Not if his mother has anything to Do With it seemingly! Wants everyone else to pay for it Too. My son lost a good school friend a few months ago. Died in his sleep at uni. It broke my son. It broke his family. So many friends. They asked for nothing to set up the funeral. Yet are living on the bread line. His kother has made 60k in go fund me, and is now asking for more for the funeral? Ridiculous