THE parents of tragic schoolgirl Robyn Nixon condemned the people who photographed her as she lay dying.

Rob and Sue Nixon told of their disgust at passers-by who took photos of Robyn on their mobile phones, moments after her 50ft plunge from the top of a multi-storey car park in Weymouth town centre.

Speaking exclusively to the Dorset Echo following their daughter’s inquest, Robyn’s family also hit out at:

* The bullies who targeted 15-year-old Robyn with online taunts and abuse.

* Her school, which they feel failed to pass on the seriousness of concerns about Robyn.

Mother-of-four Sue, 54, of Wyke Regis, Weymouth, said: “We’re shocked as a family.

“I didn’t know about the pictures until now. It’s just horrific.”

Robyn’s eldest sister, Tanya Cox, 33, said: “I’m really disgusted.

“But I still think there’s more good people than bad people in the world.”

Robyn’s other sister, Aimeé Chantelle Michél, added: “I just hope these photos never surface. That’s all I can say.”

Coroner Michael Johnston told an inquest at Dorchester that while many people rushed to Robyn’s aid, other witnesses behaved shamefully – taking photos and claiming to have spoken to Robyn when they could not have because of the extent of her injuries.

Mr Johnston said: “I’m deeply sorry there are some people who were not helpful in the things they said to the Press, things that were absolutely untrue, in order to get some notoriety.

“It’s fine for that person to have five minutes of fame but the hurt that probably did do to the Nixon family was intolerable.

“And the people who were taking photos: You ought to be ashamed.

“This was a child’s life and you were taking photos on your mobile phones.

“I’m sorry, but I think it’s horrid and the people who did that ought to be ashamed of themselves.”

At the inquest, Mrs Nixon said Robyn had not been going to All Saints School in Weymouth because ‘she felt so isolated because she had fallen out with friends’.

She said: “She felt everybody hated her.

“She tried speaking to some of them but she was being excluded from things.

“I know she wasn’t going to school because she was at home, she felt so distraught by it all.”

Mrs Nixon said problems with Robyn’s former friends and the cyber bullying which resulted from that had been going on for about 18 months prior to Robyn’s death on April 11 this year, but said it had escalated in October last year.

The inquest was told that Mrs Nixon had offered to go to the school and try and sort it out but Robyn had refused saying she would ‘run away’ if this happened.

Mrs Nixon said at the inquest the school had been alerted by Connexions teenage advice service that Robyn had spoken of suicidal thoughts but that she had not been made aware of the seriousness of this report.

She added: “Perhaps if I had been, we wouldn’t be in this situation which we’ve had to suffer.”