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It was meant to be a joke, but one mum has found herself on the receiving end of death threats after a Facebook post she wrote didn't go to plan.

25-year-old Layla Densham is part of the HMP Banter Facebook page, where she shared the post as a joke on Sunday night.

The mum-of-two had thought it would just stay on the Facebok page, but things got quickly out of hand when a group member decided to share it, Devon Live reports.

Since deleted, Layla's post read: "Just had the father of my son crying outside my house, begging for me to let him see his son.

"So I took my daughter out on the balcony and got her to say hiya dad LOL and you should of seen how upset my son was as his dad was walking away crying.

(Image: Layla Densham)

"Me and my daughter are just sat in the living room laughing as my son and his dad for crying the little melts."

It quickly attracted a lot of attention, racking up over 1000 comments.

Taken aback at how much attention her now-deleted post has received, Layla revealed she is still receiving death threats from people even though the post has been taken down, and that the entire situation is got out of control.

She said: "The post is not real, I mean if it was then why would I post it all over the internet? There are loads of other posts on the page that are worse than that but none have got to this level.

(Image: Getty)

"It was a post I made up because I keep seeing posts on Facebook slating single mums. People post all kind of things on the page but none of it is taken seriously, it's all a joke and people can see it's just a banter page."

"I deleted the post because people were sending me death threats, it was just getting completely out of hand," she added.

"It wasn't meant to get shared anywhere else, it was meant to stay in the banter group like every other post does."