A GRIEVING mum has revealed how she held her daughter's hand as she died aged 21 after years of vicious online bullying.

Jackie Fox relived the heart wrenching moment her daughter Nicole, known as Coco, overdosed to escape the world of abuse and death threats.

The young woman was pronounced dead at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, one year ago today.

It was the second time Jackie had witnessed her daughter driven to attempt to take her own life, but this time medical staff could not save her.

She told the Irish Sunday Mirror how she returned home on January 18, 2018, to find Nicole barely breathing.

She held her child's hand, even as the life support machines were turned off a day later.

But the death of her eldest child would not be in vein.

A new law, known as Coco’s Law, is currently working its way through the Irish parliament to create stronger new measures against online abuse.

For Jackie, the naming was bittersweet.

She told the Mirror: “While I’m delighted they’re naming it after her and delighted it’s coming in, it’s not going to bring her back.

SHE HAD CIGARETTES STUBBED OUT ON HER
Jackie recounted the terrible toll the three-year-long bullying had on her, from her daughters fear to leave the house in the weeks leading to her death.

The bullies stubbed cigarettes out on her, pulled her down the stairs by her hair and created fake page to post abuse online, making out she was sleeping around.

Currently there are no laws in Ireland that specifically address cyber-bullying.

The current harassment laws, which may be applied, date back to 1997.

There are widely considered outdated, given the Act was created before the likes of Facebook and Snapchat.

Jackie has called for the new proposal to make online harassment and bullying a recognised crime.