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The grieving dad of suicide girl Hannah Smith is selling the family home because he cannot bear to live in the house where she died.

Hannah, 14, killed herself after being hounded by trolls on the Ask.fm website.

Dad Dave, 45, has moved into a nearby property with his other daughter Jo, 16, who found her sister’s body hanging in her bedroom.

Dave, from Lutterworth, Leics, who has accepted an offer on the house, had hoped life would return to normal for Jo and himself after Hannah’s funeral.

But the family struggled to cope living in the same house.

They moved out earlier this month into a nearby property and put the three-bedroom house on the market.

Dave told the Mirror: “Neither of us could bear to go upstairs, let alone look in the bedroom.

“There were just too many bad memories and we couldn’t move on while we lived there.

“Jo hadn’t even been able to have a shower. I had to take her round to neighbours so she could wash herself.

(Image: Jon Fuller-Rowell / Daily Mirror)

“She found her sister’s body hanging in her bedroom. There’s no way she could walk past that room every day.”

Dave instructed estate agents to be honest about what happened in the house to potential buyers.

He said he accepted an offer this week of £20,000 below the asking price just to get rid of the house.

“I didn’t want to sell it without the new owner knowing what had happened in there - that wouldn’t have been fair,” he said.

“We’ve accepted an offer and no we’re just waiting for the surveys and solicitors to get sorted.

“We’ll never forget the house, we have many happy memories, but it was time to move on.”

Hannah’s death - which came after she was hounded for months by trolls on Ask.fm - caused a national outcry.

(Image: Jon Fuller Rowell / Daily Mirror)

Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to Dave and called on the website to face actions.

Advertisers including Specsavers, Vodafone, Laura Ashley and EDF Energy deserted the site.

Ask.fm’s Latvian founders Ilja and Mark Terebin responded by making a series of changes to make it safer.

They vowed to deal with any complaints or trolling within 24 hours and announced that a “report button” would be introduced.

Young people will also be able to opt out of receiving messages from anonymous users - such as the ones that targeted Hannah.

Ask.fm, which was launched in 2010, boasts more than 70 million users worldwide.

It allows users to post anonymous comments on the profiles of members - some of whom are just 13 years old.

The changes announced following Hannah’s death are being phased in over the next 12 months.