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Oliver Wright was described as a ‘cheeky young man’\"OliverOliver Wright’s actions helped save the lives of five people(Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n

A mum has paid tribute to her “great” son who helped save the lives of five people. Oliver Wright was labelled a “cheeky young man” who loved a practical joke by his mum Jill.<\/p>\n

Oliver, who had a brother and two sisters, was a lorry driver<\/a> and did odd jobs to save up his money as a teenager. However, Jill says Oliver\u2019s fortunes changed when he fell victim to a scam aged 18, causing him to lose about \u00a310,000 in three days.<\/p>\n

The episode affected his mental health<\/a> massively. Oliver, who was from Lymn in Warrington<\/a>, tragically took his own life aged 23 in December 2022.<\/p>\n

Paying tribute to her son, Jill, 55, told the ECHO<\/a>: “He was a great boy. He was a properly cheeky young man. He was good fun. He\u2019d move the Christmas tree and put it in a different room.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019d just do daft things. He was a practical joker. If he saw you in the car, he\u2019d open the boot and then get in his car and drive off. He was just a boy.<\/p>\n

“He was big into driving. My husband’s got his own business and Oliver used to help him out. Oliver could drive a forklift by the age of 10. He was a 20-year-old lad driving these massive lorries. Driving was his thing.”<\/p>\n

Despite holding down his job as a HGV driver, Jill says getting scammed had a profound effect on him. He said: “He did loads and loads of jobs and by the time he got to 18, he’d saved up a hell of a lot of money.<\/p>\n

“He got scammed on his phone and it obviously affected him. He got really upset by it. It was stressing him out and he was embarrassed, so he didn’t really quite know what to do about it. That\u2019s where his downfall started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jill says the scammers told Oliver that if he transferred them \u00a3100, they would double it and send it back to them. But they kept asking for more and he never got the money back.<\/p>\n

She said: “They went through \u00a310,000 within about three days and his heart just broke because he\u2019d worked so hard. He\u2019d go and cut people’s grass from a young age.<\/p>\n

“He was saving up and wanted his own truck business eventually, and these people knocked it all out of him and he was embarrassed.”<\/p>\n

Oliver went to sessions at Andy\u2019s Man Club, a suicide prevention charity offering free to attend peer-to-peer support groups across the UK and online, with his dad and Jill\u2019s husband Simon.<\/p>\n

Jill said: “They did go, but he was only 19 or 20. He went a few times and we thought he\u2019d got over it and he\u2019d be okay.”<\/p>\n

Mental health support<\/p>\n

Helplines and support groups<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following are helplines and support networks for people to talk to, mostly listed on the NHS Choices website<\/a><\/p>\n