Sick taunts on Facebook tribute page horrify bereaved family

Charlotte Wilson, 16, died after the Renault Megane she was travelling in hurtled into a wall in Bradford on October 3 of last year.

A special condolence page was set up on social networking site, Facebook, for distraught friends and family to leave messages –- but instead heartless yobs have uploaded disturbing pictures taunting the much-loved teenager.

Disgraceful images of wrecked cars crumpled against walls have been posted along with a series of snaps of film stars next to speech bubbles with explicit and twisted jibes about raping Charlotte's corpse.

One poster, calling himself Rusty Shackleford, comments on one of the images, saying: "Look at that poor defenceless wall!"

Another of the shocking images shows a naked man with Charlotte's face on it.

The sick additions to the site also include a disgusting image

featuring Jim Carrey poking his head out of a car window and saying: "You're dead LOL."

Another picture is a mock up of Charlotte driving a car, with Jesus behind her saying: "Make a right here," to which 'she' replies: "But there's a wall."

Charlotte's aunt, Sharon Brennan, said: "We've complained to Facebook. These are cruel and wicked things, just sick and twisted.

"We know anyone who actually knew Charlotte would not do anything like this.

"We suspect it's coming from people in America – some of them refer to cell phones, and we don't call them that here. We've cried a lot. It's broken our hearts all over again – not that they could ever mend."

Now the family is appealing to whichever of Charlotte's friends set up the page to shut it down.

Mrs Brennan said: "We are told they are the only ones who can close it down.

"We know the page was set up by someone who meant well but it's gone horribly wrong.

"We are also asking friends to ignore the sick comments and not to react to them because that will make it worse.

"Facebook can be a good thing. Charlotte's mum has her own page for Charlotte and that helps. She talks to Charlotte's friends every day and that keeps her going. It's hard for us all without our beautiful Charlotte but this has made it even harder."

Charlotte's family had thought she was tucked up safe in bed at a friend's house the night she died, but the A-grade pupil, who was in the sixth form at Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College, had gone out in a car.

After the tragedy happened her father Scott, who described her as a sensible girl and "our bright star", said: "We've all been teenagers and done things our parents haven't known about.

"If she had got away with it and come home the next morning it would have been a secret and that would have been the end of it. But she did not come home.It went the wrong way and she paid the ultimate price for that."

An 18-year-old man has been arrested and bailed by police in connection with her death.