A HEARTBROKEN mother whose teenage son took his own life after being bullied online has filmed a video warning against cyber bullying.

Lucy Alexander, whose son Felix was just 17 when he placed himself under a train, says in the video how her son was called "black rat", "ugly" and was told how everyone hated him.

She said how the former King's School, Worcester, and Pershore High School pupil received abuse every day.

Now she has appealed to other parents to speak to their children about their phone use and use of social media and to report any abuse as part of West Mercia Police's campaign against cyber bullying.

She said: "From the moment you give your child a phone, you need to have a conversation running with them all of the time, what they are doing, who they are doing it with and what platforms they are using.

"Let them help you understand how they function there is support within the social media platforms as well. 

"See how they (social media platforms) can help with a particular problem, report it, always report it.

"Evidence it, take screenshots of it, talk to your local police.

"This is something that never occurred to me when Felix was young I didn't realise that anyone could help me or advise me."

She said: "He started having trouble at school, it was more isolation and exclusion.

"It became more of an issue when he went to senior school and the isolation became more severe. 

"Then the social media started, there was a site back in the day that people could make anonymous comments or ask anonymous questions about somebody and Felix got a huge amount of negative comments about him.

"He did not actually have a computer or anything at that stage but when you know things are being said about you you are very keen to find it.

"When he was about 13 or 14 he was really struggling to cope, he was getting a lot of negative comments from people, it was from people he knew, people he didn't know.

"He was called black rat, ugly and told that everybody hated him, just general nastiness.

"They didn't understand or think through the consequences of what they said or did. Every day he had something from somebody."

Felix died on on April 27, 2016 when he placed himself in front of a train at Abbotswood Junction, in Norton, just outside Worcester.

Mrs Alexander said: "I got a phone call from the school at just before 9 saying he hadn't arrived, my husband and I went off to try and find him.

"I knew in my gut something horrible had happened, driving through the village and we saw a police car blue lighting and I just knew he was involved so we chased it.

"I saw a policeman crossing a field just past the village hall and I ran after him and said I'm looking for my son, are you looking for him too, he said I might be and I think you need to prepare yourself for the worst.

"He walked through a field and got in front of a train."