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Andy Dolan and Martin Robinson
Daily Mail
August 6, 2013
- Schoolgirl Hannah Smith from Lutterworth was found dead on Friday
- People had been leaving her messages like: ‘Die’ and ‘Go get cancer’
- Her parents and friends are calling for Ask.fm to be banned completely
- Controversial site, based in Latvia, allows people to post anonymously
A teenager was found hanged at her home after suffering months of bullying by anonymous ‘trolls’ on a notorious website.
Hannah Smith, 14, was taunted on Ask.fm – linked to at least four teenage deaths in the past year – over her weight, the death of an uncle and an apparent propensity to self-harm.
She had also been urged to ‘drink bleach’ by the anonymous tormentors, friends said.
The tragedy comes amid a continuing escalation of the abusive and threatening ‘trolling’ of high-profile women on Twitter.
In the aftermath of Hannah’s apparent suicide, her devastated father, David, took to Facebook to urge parents to stop their children using the Latvian-based Ask.fm, which has been condemned as a ‘stalker’s paradise’ by child safety experts.
Mr Smith called for its creators to be prosecuted for manslaughter.
Less than a fortnight before her body was found early last Friday, Hannah begged her tormentors – who can hide behind a cloak of anonymity on the site – to stop the abuse.
In another post, she told one bully who had branded her an ‘ugly f*****’ how she had already attempted suicide and added: ‘Getting things like this from people that like to hide behind there (sic) computer screen doesn’t make me feel any better.’
Writing on Facebook on Saturday, Mr Smith, a 45-year-old lorry driver, said: ‘I have just seen the abuse my daughter got from people on ask fm and the fact that these people can be anonymous is wrong.
‘The person that created this website should be done for manslaughter.’
Mr Smith split up with his first wife Tracey, 35, seven years ago and raised daughters Hannah and Joanne, 16, with his second wife Deb in Lutterworth, Leicestershire.
Taunts and abusive comments written in teenage ‘text speak’ remained visible on Hannah’s Ask.fm profile yesterday, which Hannah last used on Thursday. In her final days, she had been branded a ‘cow’ and ‘fat sl**’ – but had also been praised on her appearance and told she was ‘fit’ by others.
On July 20, a vile troll wrote, ‘u ugly f*** go die evry1 wuld be happy’, prompting Hannah to reply: ‘yes, i may be ugly, but you obviously have an ugly personality to tell people to ‘go die’!’
Other hurtful posts urged her to ‘do us all a favour n kill ur self’ and ‘go comit suicide’.
Hannah replied: ‘wouldn’t you fell bad if I did ey?’
Just the day before she apparently killed herself, Hannah posted a picture message on Facebook which read: ‘You think you want to die, but in reality you just want to be saved.’
