A prison worker who planned to take his own life before changing his mind when he looked at a picture of his son says taking up boxing helped him to turn things around.

Robert Edwards, from Wolverhampton, has worked as an officer and then as a dog handler at prisons across the West Midlands for about 20 years.During his career, he has witnessed a number of traumatic events, including inmates committing suicide and having to attend to the bodies.

“I didn’t process everything that happened. I just buried it,” the father-of-two said.

Mr Edwards, who would later be diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), said he would shut himself off from his family and his colleagues.