A grieving mother has publicly forgiven the bullies who tormented her teenage daughter and appealed to them to make time in future for “gentle and sensitive” individuals.

In an emotional message on Facebook, Samantha Taylor said her daughter Jade McGrath, 19, who took her own life three months ago, was too “terrified” to finish school.

Posting a photograph of her daughter when she was younger, alongside a picture of her gravestone, she added that she forgave Jade’s bullies as they were “too young to understand” the effect they were having.

The teenager, who was from the Aviemore area, was reported missing from a psychiatric hospital in Inverness in November and her body was found 11 days later, less than a mile away among trees and bushes.

Her mother, addressing herself to those who “excluded, bullied or assaulted” her daughter at three different schools, said: "Although she fought hard and valiantly to overcome the damage that you caused, in the end she lost her fight, just when she seemed to be finally turning a corner.

"She never got a chance to do her exams at Millburn because she was too terrified to go to school. That meant no college, so no qualifications, so she was forced to do unskilled low paid jobs.