Police have launched an urgent search for a missing Elgin man.
21.02.2022 - 07:59 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots mum has been left in tears by sick trolls posing as her dead daughter on fake social media profiles.
Elaine Cunningham, 46, has been bombarded with friend requests on Facebook and Instagram by vile individuals using her daughter Lauren Reid's name and photographs.
Lauren passed away aged 19 after suffering an asthma attack at work two years ago.
The teenager had forgotten her inhaler and went into cardiac arrest while on shift at Glasgow bar Gin71.
Devastated mum Elaine, from Dennistoun, made the heartbreaking decision to switch off her daughter's life support four days later.
Elaine, who launched a campaign for 'Lauren's Law' which would allow salbutamol inhalers to be kept in commercial kitchens, told the Daily Record she has struggled to ignore the sickening profiles but has refused to allow them to break her.
She said: "I have experienced the worst possible hurt and pain in my life after losing my daughter, so the trolls can’t do much to me now.
"I have been sent friendship requests on Facebook and Instagram from people posing as my daughter so many times since I lost Lauren.
“Sometimes even seeing Lauren’s face can make me cry. Seeing these profiles using her pictures is really hard.
"Unfortunately catfishing is just something I've been forced to get used to over the last two years."
Elaine has found bogus fundraisers collecting cash under her daughter's name online.
She also claims had to explain to police officers who chapped on her door that Lauren was dead after a local criminal gave her daughter's name and address instead of their own last year.
But the brave mum has vowed to focus on her campaign work and not let the disturbing incidents break her down.
She continued: "People even try to make money out of my
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