• Kenny Davies found in woods after taking out loans with payday firms
• Family say player was a private person and no one knew he was unhappy

A rugby league player hanged himself after secretly getting himself thousands of pounds into debt with payday loan companies. Kenny Davies, 23, was out of work yet was paying sums of around £400 a time after taking out arrangements with online loan firms which sometimes charge interest rates of up 4,000 per cent. On the day of his death, Kenny had asked a neighbour to act as a guarantor for a £3,500 loan over 36 months. But the neighbour refused and Kenny was found dead in woods near his home just 30 minutes later. Paperwork relating to a loan agreement from an online lending company was found in his pocket. And messages showing enquiries Kenny made to payday loan firms involving sums between £400 and 'substantial amounts' were also discovered on his mobile phone. It emerged he had already borrowed £1,500 from another neighbour.....Read more here