A mother broke down in tears on today’s This Morning when the programme showed a video of her daughter being attacked by a bully.
Mum-of-four Claire Walton appeared on the show alongside 13-year-old Hollie, to speak about the pupil’s recent ordeal at her school in Rhyl, North Wales.
After a bullying campaign against the young girl, she was ambushed and beaten up, with the whole incident being FILMED by one of the bully’s friends.
But when the clip was posted on social media by Hollie’s assailant, Claire decided to give the bully a taste of her own medicine by making it viral so that everyone could see what happened.
Hollie revealed on the programme that she’d been friends with her tormentor before the pair fell out over a minor disagreement.
She told presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby that she was then subjected to daily bullying at the Blessed Edward Jones High School, revealing how her former pal “put sparklers in my hair and tripped me up in the hallway”.
But things got even worse for the teenager when she was physically assaulted as she left the premises one day.
Anticipating that the attack was going to happen, Hollie had asked her teachers if she could leave school early. But as she didn’t tell them the reason why, her request was turned down.
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