Sensitive Musician Killed Himself After Online Taunts

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The mother of a young musician who killed himself after the friends of a girl he loved on Facebook told him to 'go and die' has called for an end to cyber-bullying. Diane Foxley said the boys who made the comments to her son Simon, 21, only felt able to say such cruel things because they did so through the internet.

The heartbroken 55-yearold mum said if the people who wrote the cruel jibes, aimed at warning Simon to stop bothering a girl he had fallen for, had met him face-toface they would have realised the dangers of what they said.

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Sensitive Musician Killed Himself After Online Taunts

Just hours after receiving the messages, Simon wrote letters to his family and the girl inv...

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