The final photo of Neilson was taken on July 7, just days before her death, and it showed the model having fun with Kate Moss at Blenheim Palace, where Neilson’s ex-boyfriend Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, son of the Duke of Marlborough, married Kimberly Hammerstroem, a German photographer. Neilson was also romantically involved for a time with Jefferson Hack, the magazine editor and father of Kate Moss’s daughter, Lila. But she later found sobriety and was married to notable financier and English aristocrat Nat Rothschild for three years in the mid-1990s before eventually joining the main cast of Ladies of London, Bravo’s posh British answer to America’s Real Housewives franchise. "I use it because it can give you an insight on what people think of you and no one is fake there," another teenager told AFP.The daughter of property adviser Max Neilson and interior designer Elizabeth Neilson, the socialite reportedly struggled with heroin addiction at the age of 16. Some users relish the honesty that ask.fm's anonymity feature brings. Like many others, he has simply learned to take the abuse in his stride.
"I must have known the people who were doing it," said the teenager, who checks his ask.fm page every few hours for new posts.
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One in three young people are cyber-bullied, according to BeatBullying.Īndrew, a 14-year-old from Scotland who uses ask.fm to share his views on everything from his love life to TV shows, said he had publicised his posts on Facebook - only to be met with suggestions that he should go and kill himself. In extreme circumstances - such as the suicide of a teenager bullied on the site - it says it can trace the source of an anonymous post and pass the information on to police.įor many British teens, dealing with online abuse has become almost a part of daily life. "If it could happen to Ciara, it could happen to anybody."Īsk.fm has defended the anonymity feature, saying its users can choose not to receive questions from anonymous users. "This was not a girl that sat quietly in the corner," she said. "That gives rise to paranoia - who do you trust? It could be the person you sit next to at school."Ĭiara was a "feisty, very bright" girl who had represented Ireland at karate, Pugsley-Hill told AFP. "The anonymous nature means people will say things that they wouldn't say in real life," said the 48-year-old artist. Her niece Ciara Pugsley, 15, was found hanged in the woods next to her house in Ireland last September after she was bullied on ask.fm. "People can go on to the website and produce pure hatred without being identified," said Anthony Smythe, managing director of the charity BeatBullying.Ĭharron Pugsley-Hill agrees. Her father has called for its operators to face murder or manslaughter charges.Īsk.fm has a question-and-answer format - users pose each other questions, such as "Who is your best friend?" and their answers are posted on their profiles.Ĭrucially, users can choose to post anonymously - a feature that campaigners say has made the website a playground for cyber-bullies. The website had already described Hannah's suicide as a "true tragedy" and said it is working with police investigating the death. "We do not condone bullying of any kind." "We are committed to ensuring that our site is a safe environment," the Terebin brothers insisted in a statement. Wary of the negative publicity, advertisers including telecoms giant Vodafone and designer Laura Ashley have scrambled to abandon the site - and after Cameron called Thursday for users to boycott it, ask.fm's founders were forced to issue a defence. Hannah's death has pushed criticism of the website to fever pitch, with parents - including Prime Minister David Cameron - asking why users are able to post such vicious remarks with complete anonymity, often to youngsters in the same school class.
The Latvia-based website - which has turned its founders, brothers Mark and Ilja Terebin, into millionaires since it launched in 2010 - has been linked to at least four other teen suicides in Britain, Ireland and the US this year.
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