Daniel Knott: Mum's heartbreak at online video of son's body

A parent who mislaid her lad to termination said her grief was amplified by a video of his assemblage being shared connected societal media.

Daniel Knott, 39, died connected 27 March and days aboriginal his parent Jenny Tancock was told astir the distressing video.

Jacob Morse, 22, had filmed Daniel earlier the exigency services arrived.

"To spell and stock it online for the satellite to see... it's the eventual insult, the eventual degrading of idiosyncratic I think," said Jenny.

On 18 May, Morse was sentenced to six weeks successful situation astatine Llanelli Magistrates' Court aft pleading blameworthy to circulating a video connected societal media that was grossly violative oregon of an indecent, obscene oregon menacing character.

Jenny has not watched the video, but said knowing that others had seen it caused her and the remainder of her household immense distress.

"[I felt] anger, axenic anger, disbelief that idiosyncratic could beryllium truthful vile arsenic to get astatine a country similar that and really video it," said Jenny from Betws, Carmarthenshire.

"For america what Jake Morse has done has conscionable amplified that grief. We're dealing with thing truthful vile erstwhile we should conscionable beryllium grieving for Daniel."

Jenny was told a pistillate recovered Daniel's assemblage who past called the exigency services.

But Morse, who had been moving nearby, came crossed the country and filmed Daniel's assemblage utilizing his mobile telephone earlier exigency services arrived.

Jenny said coming face-to-face with Morse successful tribunal near her feeling "full of hate".

"I shouldn't person been there, I was grieving... I conscionable shook from caput to toed the full time," she said.

Despite her anger, she said she had mixed feelings astir Morse's six-week custodial sentence.

"It deed maine arsenic a mother, it truly did, helium conscionable looked similar a large kid… and I was truly torn arsenic to however I felt," she said.

"I kept reasoning 'what would Dan do?' and I don't deliberation Dan would person wanted him to spell to prison.

"Six weeks isn't capable but astatine the aforesaid clip it's a situation sentence, he's gone to situation and that tells maine that our justness strategy is taking it seriously."

With the tribunal lawsuit down her, Jenny has been near to contemplate the fearfulness of the past 8 weeks.

"To suffer a kid is the worst happening that tin ever hap to you. To suffer them to termination takes it to a antithetic level," she said.

She said she remembers Daniel arsenic "an enigma, afloat of beans, afloat of life, from the time helium was calved conscionable kind, caring, generous, loved by everybody."

Daniel grew up to beryllium a raver with a passionateness for fun, hardcore creation euphony and DJing.

But 7 years agone that changed erstwhile Daniel was progressive successful a superior car clang which near him with a fractured skull and a breached back. He underwent an cognition to person metallic rods inserted to stabilise his back.

"He divided with his girlfriend, mislaid his house, mislaid his job, mislaid everything really," said Jenny.

"Physically helium couldn't play the decks anymore, helium couldn't basal for long, he'd shingle from caput to toed due to the fact that the rods were pressing connected nerves.

"It's astir arsenic though Daniel mislaid the fight."

She said erstwhile she saw constabulary officers astatine her doorway she "just knew".

"I conscionable said delight don't, delight don't."

Jenny and her household are being supported by section foundation The Jac Lewis Foundation, which was acceptable up by Jac Lewis's household aft helium took his ain life.

The foundation has accompanied her to tribunal and arranged for her to person counselling.

She said the enactment had "helped america enormously".

Jenny said speaking retired would beryllium worthy it if it could forestall "just 1 idiosyncratic who is tempted to instrumentality a video and stock it nether immoderate benignant of traumatic circumstances."

She said: "I privation to rise consciousness that these are quality beings, they're people, they've got families, to stock things connected the net for daze worth oregon for likes is atrocious and I privation them to cognize that there's consequences."

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