A teenager pushed to suicide by online bullies continued to be a target after her death, an inquest heard yesterday.

Natasha MacBryde, who threw herself under a train, was the victim of internet âtrollsâ who posted a picture of her on a tribute site under the banner: âI caught the train to heaven LOL.â

Tragedy: Natasha MacBryde killed herself on railway lines near Bromsgrove on Valentines day

A video called âTasha The Tank Engineâ was also removed from YouTube.

The 15-year-old had received a threatening message through the social networking site Formspring days before she died.


It read: âYouâre a f***ing slut hiding under all your make-up. You think youâre pretty and that all the guys like you.



âStart acting nice to people or you will lose everyone.â

The teenager had used the internet to research suicide methods an hour before her death on February 12.

She was found on the line in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the following day.

A pupil at the Â£10,000-a-year Royal Grammar School in Upper Tything, Worcester, she was bullied by a group of girls who called themselves âThe Tenâ.

âShe came home from school in floods of tears and said she wanted to leave,â her mother Catherine MacBryde, 43, said.

Worcestershire Coroner Geraint Williams said one of the online bullies â a male â had been identified and dealt with.

âI anticipate that none of you have heard of a thing called âtrollingâ,â he told a jury. âIt appears to be a fairly violent, disgusting habit.

âThey set up websites after the death of a person and post foul and disgusting comments.â

The jury to took 40 minutes to rule her death a suicide.

The anonymous postings on the Formspring site had been a âsignificant contributorâ in Natashaâs death, her family said afterwards.

âWe seek to understand the motivation of those who choose to send spiteful and vindictive messages to their peers,â they added.