These shocking pictures show how drugs left a young banker homeless before his death at just 28.
Daniel Hackett's grief-stricken mum has told how she helplessly watched her son’s struggle.
She has now launched an online appeal in a bid to raise cash to fund his funeral.
Seven years ago Daniel had a good job working for Lloyds TSB bank and was a young man with everything to look forward to.
However, mum Donna said he became “mixed up in the world of drugs” and soon found himself homeless in the streets of Birmingham.
Despite his family’s desperate battle to help him back on the right track, the 28-year-old could not escape his demons.
On January 17, Donna was told the devastating news that her son had died, reports the Birmingham Mail.
A post mortem is set to take place this week to establish the cause of his death.
She said: “We had a knock at the door. Two Police Officers were there.
“I just knew and said ‘he’s dead isn’t he?’”
She described how the family had tried everything to help Daniel - known as Danny - who grew up in the Black Country and attended Peters Hill Primary School and Thorns Community College in Brierley Hill.
She added: “We tried everything we could to get him away from this world of drugs.
“We searched the streets and did whatever we could.
“Occasionally he would call home, we even got him to visit and we would feed and clothe him.
“But he was stuck into the worst kind of drugs.”
She said she had not heard from Danny for the last two years, and the family had failed in its attempts a year ago to track him down to tell him his grandmother was dying from cancer.
Now Donna is facing an uphill battle to raise the £2,000 she needs to pay for Danny’s funeral.
Launching an appeal on website gofundme.com , she said: ”We face having to find the money to pay for the funeral, we have no savings and are not on any kind of benefits.
“My heart breaks that we are even in this position. If we can only raise a small amount that would be wonderful.
“Please find it in your hearts to do this one last thing for my son.”
Danny was a well-known face in Birmingham.
He won public support in September last year after couple Claire Carmichael and Fran Lynchwere left disgusted when he was asked to leave the Rectory Bar in the Jewellery Quarter when the pair had offered to buy the stranger a drink.
Donna’s online appeal was launched just four days ago but has already been swamped with more than 80 donations totalling over £1,500.
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