Beware the black widow

Bianca Innes, 47

Hearing my phone ping, I glanced at the screen.

Smiled when I saw a familiar name pop up.

Hey, B! How’re you doing? my friend Mathew, then 36, had typed.

Firing off a quick response, we spent a few minutes nattering.

I’d met Mathew in 2009 after accidentally adding the wrong person on Facebook.

While looking for an old friend, I’d ended up making a new one.

Friendly and easy to talk to, we’d just clicked.

And within months we’d become firm friends.

He had the biggest heart,