Albanian father sets himself on fire in front of his teenage son in London

 

 A promising mathematician and medical student, who was born in Kosovo, burned himself to death in front of his teenage son in a town not far from London, after running up £250,000 or €295,000 in gambling debts, Daily writes. Mail.

Bylent 'Bill' Troshupa, 53, originally from Prishtina, who fled Kosovo because of the former Yugoslavia's regime for London, was angry and distraught after losing thousands of bets 12 hours a day during the pandemic with firms including " William Hill" and "888".

After this situation, his marriage broke down and according to an order, he was banned from visiting his wife Julie Martin, 51, and their 16-year-old son, according to Dailymail.

But the father-of-two arrived with a knife, cans of petrol, and an envelope full of cash while his son was home alone last November.

He began banging on the door demanding to be let in before dropping the money through the letterbox, walking away and setting himself on fire.

The worried boy had called his mother as she was driving home from work in Waltham Abbey, Essex, at around 8.30 pm to say his father was burning in a fire outside.

He was in his second year studying medicine in Croatia when the Balkans War started and he had to flee from the Serbian massacres on Muslims. Anyway, no one of his qualifications were recognized in UK, so he worked as a driver.