PETER Gilding is the type of bloke you would want on your side in a crisis. A diamond in the rough, when he heard from his friend Jodie Clay that her friend Destiny was having a tough time, he snapped into action.

Ms Clay’s friend Destiny Anderson-Harvey, a 45-year-old Portland hairdresser and single mum of 15-year-old Dodga, had already taken a lot of time off work to be able to look after her own mum who was in palliative care.