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Molly died from 'act of self harm'

A SENIOR coroner has concluded schoolgirl Molly Russell died while suffering from the 'negative effects of online content'.

Andrew Walker said online material viewed by the 14-year-old on sites such as Instagram and Pinterest 'was not safe' and 'shouldn't have been available for a child to see'.

Molly's father, lan Russell, said he hopes the conclusion will be an 'important step in bringing about muchneeded change' and asked Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg to 'just listen... and then do something about it'.

Welling up as he concluded a press conference in Barnet on Friday, Mr Russell's voice broke as he said: "Thank you, Molly, for being my daughter."

Concluding it would not be 'safe' to rule Molly's cause of death as suicide, Mr Walker said the teenager 'died from an act of self-harm while suffering depression and the negative effects of online content'. At North London Coroner's Court, he said: "Some of these sites were not safe as they allowed access to adult content that should not have been available for a 14-year-old child to see."