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Wayne’s why

When’s someone’s child commits suicide, it would be easy and completely understandable to retreat into the shadows and withdraw from society. Not Wayne Holdsworth.

Within three months of finding his beloved 17-year-old son Mac hanging in his bedroom, Wayne turned his rollercoaster of emotions into a vehicle to help stop other families having a similar experience.

Mac took his own life 100 days after his mother died. But it was his shocking experience of being sexually extorted by a middle-aged man pretending to be a teenage girl that led to devastating consequences.