Charities have warned of an increase in cyberbullying after an inquest this week disclosed that a teenage girl killed herself in February just hours after receiving an abusive and threatening message on a social networking site.
Jeremy Todd, chief executive of the charity Family Lives, said the online bullying of Natasha MacBryde was "awful and unacceptable". The 15-year-old was found dead on a railway 150 yards from her home in Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. On Thursday a coroner called internet "trolls" who left abusive messages on an online memorial page to the teenager "vile and disgusting".
"Cyberbullying is on the increase," said Todd. "Parents are way behind their children in terms of keeping up with the technology used. When you can see what has happened to this teenager we can see that this is incredibly dangerous."
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