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THE parents of a schoolgirl who killed herself on a railway line have blamed her death on a spiteful and vindictive online message.

Natasha MacBryde crept out of her house after dark and scrambled up a steep embankment to reach a railway line.

Her body was spotted by a train driver 150 yards away from her home the next day - on Valentine’s day - as her worried mother and brother searched for her.

On the day of her death Natasha, aged 15 and a Royal Grammar School pupil, had received an anonymous message on social networking site Formspring.

Containing expletives and insults, it read: "You think you're pretty and all the girls love you.

"Newsflash. It's called acting.

"I'm telling you for your own good start being nicer to people or you will lose everyone, mark my words."

The jury at Worcestershire coroner’s court heard Natasha had appeared happy and healthy until around two weeks before her death.

Her mother Jane MacBryde said she came home from school crying.

She said: “She said she hated school, she hated her teachers and didn’t have any friends and hated her friends.”

She also showed her mother messages posted on Formspring which had upset her.

The coroner’s court also heard her parents had separated and there were tensions in her family life.

On the night she died, Natasha had gone to her bedroom at around 6.45pm.

Investigations by British Transport Police found she had had an argument with a friend on Facebook and via text messages - which was resolved.

They found she had been looking at websites which explained how to kill yourself by train and had texted her friend: “I’m really going to miss you.”

Just before 9pm she had received a message on Facebook from a boy she was fond of who told her he “just wanted to be friends.”

Half an hour later, a train driver hit an object lying on the tracks on a railway line in Aston Fields, Bromsgrove, which he thought was a dead animal.

A post mortem showed she had died from multiple injuries.

The jury’s verdict was that she had killed herself.

After the inquest, parents Andrew and Jane MacBryde said they believed a combination of circumstances had created an intolerable situation for her while she was trying to deal with the normal difficulties of teenage life.

They said in a statement: “The family believes that the anonymous postings on the ‘Formspring’ social networking website were a significant contributor to the events on Sunday, February 13, and we seek to understand the motivation of those who choose to send spiteful and vindictive messages to their peers.

"We can only hope that lessons have been learned.”

They described Natasha as “a bright and beautiful girl whose smile and sparkle lit up not only our world, but also that of her friends and all who knew her.”

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