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A homeless jobless man on the verge of suicide turned his life around to become a millionaire businessman.

Mylo Kaye, from Birkenhead, was fired from his job after he was sucked into the party scene and soon found himself without a home.

Too proud to tell his family about his predicament, he lived in a hostel for more than 12 months and later attempted to kill himself.

He found solace at Birkenhead Central Library and used computers there to apply for an access course at college – taking him on to university and a meeting with his future business partner.

Although Mylo, 30, suffered a setback after the death of his uncle, sending him spiralling into depression and trying to take his own life, he fought back to build successful digital business Dreamr.

He said: “I was working for Telewest at the Albert Dock and I got promoted to a senior technical role over people ten years older than me. And with that responsibility came the money to match.

“I was still only 20 and I did all the things I probably shouldn’t. I went out all the time, was drinking alcohol, doing drugs.

“At the time I thought it was amazing and I lost my sense of reality. What I saw was different from what was happening around me.

“I thought it was an exciting time, I was having fun, and I thought ‘this is my money, I’m going to spend it’.

“I had a good relationship with everyone at work and in my mind, naively I thought they wouldn’t mind if I didn’t go in for a few days every now and then. My judgement was completely impaired.”

It turned out Mylo’s bosses did mind and left him with no job and surviving on benefits in the chaotic environment of a hostel, he hit rock bottom.

He says he’d gone from hero to “below zero”, and felt unsafe, but was grateful for having a roof over his head.

He said: “It was a lonely struggle. For the first six months it was an uphill battle. Then at the halfway point of the year, a social worker called Debbie gave me my confidence back.

“It was part of a programme at the hostel. She had me on a regime at the gym and she taught me how to cook properly.

“It helped build my confidence and strengthen what was already there.”

His confidence restored, former St Mary’s College student Mylo headed for Birkenhead Central Library, where he applied to do an access course at Liverpool Community College.

He won a place at Manchester Metropolitan University but alone in a new city, his world was then torn apart following the death of his uncle.

He said: “I was so close to him and it was completely out of the blue. It was like someone saying ‘You can’t do well, I’m going to put these things in your way’, first losing my job and the second my uncle.

“It was a really difficult time but I used the support from university and they really helped me to get straight again.”

Mylo studied web development before switching to a business enterprise course, where he met Jack Mason, who was to become co-founder of Dreamr.

They started out making websites for small businesses, now have 23 staff creating mobile apps for entrepreneurs and start-ups and are set to turnover £1m this year.

Mylo is also a trustee of the Booth Centre, a homeless charity in Manchester, where his business is based, and is passionate about helping others.

One of six children, he said he would encourage anyone in the position he was in to speak to loved ones and seek support.

And he hopes he can will inspire others in a similar situation and show that they can turn their life around.

He said: “I didn’t open up and I would say speak to people that you love and love you.

“It’s important for me to help others and tell them that it’s ok not to feel ok.”