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The mother of a murdered teenager has blasted trolls who used her daughter's photo in collages of missing people in the Manchester bombing.

Samantha Shrewsbury was horrified to see images of Jayden Parkinson, 17, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and dumped in a graveyard, circulating online.

Ben Blakeley strangled Jayden in Didcot, when she told him she was pregnant and was jailed for 20 years in 2014.

But her mum Samantha was horrified to see a selfie snapped by Jayden among images of people being searched for after the Manchester bombing, and spoke of the damage this could cause.

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On Tuesday, she wrote on Twitter : "Why is my MURDERED daughter's picture being used in a collage of pictures of children missing dead after last night terror attack.(sic)."

Samantha, 50, said: "We don't even know where the collage has come from.

"It is hard enough for me on a daily basis without having to see her picture.

"It takes away from the actual tragedy of people having missing children.

"That is something those parents are going to have to cope with forever and ever."

Slamming internet trolls who posted the picture she added: "I don't see what the point of them doing it is.

"There is nothing I can do about it, I can't stop it.

"What goes through their minds when they are thinking 'I'll make this?'

"Do they know the damage they can cause?

"You can't have much of a conscience to do it in the first place."

Samantha, a grandmother-of-four, said she understood why people shared the image in the genuine belief it showed people missing in the attack.

She said: "I can't moan about anyone who shared the picture, they were doing it with best interests at heart.

"People shared Jayden's picture when she went missing. It can be a good thing but it can also be damaging.

"There is enough confusion about the attacks as it is."

The two-week wait after Jayden vanished was still raw in her mind as other families were on tenterhooks while deaths were confirmed.

Samantha said: "You hope it is not going to be true, you think it can't happen, but it can and it does."