In January last year, Dai Dilling was doing well, all things considered. The 19-year-old had run away from home, got into trouble, lived on the streets and dabbled in drugs. But like others in Bridgend, he had found hope by attending Yellow Wales, a youth project centre where he made friends, went on training courses and found somewhere safe to stay, at Yellow’s lodgings in Maesteg, eight miles away.

After two years of stop-start progress, Dai was hired as a construction worker. He was enjoying the job and, as far as the Yellow Wales employees knew, felt optimistic about the future. But on January 5, his world turned. Dai’s old friend Dale Crole, a small-time drug dealer, was found hanged at a disused warehouse near Porthcawl’s Coney Beach funfair. It was one of their old drinking haunts. Dai was a pall bearer at Dale’s funeral and, less than a month later, he too hanged himself.