Father banned bullied Hannah from using Ask.fm

The father of a 14-year-old girl who ended her life after enduring months of online bullying had told his daughter to stop using a controversial website in the run-up to her death.

David Smith, whose daughter, Hannah, endured months of torment on the controversial question-and-answer website Ask.fm before being found hanged in her bedroom, told ITV’s Daybreak programme that he had banned her from using the site, but she had carried on in secret.

“I had already told Hannah to stay off Ask.fm because the school actually sent a text out saying ‘Keep your kids off Ask.fm’. I told her to stay off it, but with Ask.fm it’s very difficult to find it on the computer anyway.”