'Someone found my son's dead body... and then posted a video of his body on social media'
21.05.2023 - 08:29
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum who lost her son to suicide has told of her horror after learning that a 'sicko' posted a video of his body online. Jacob Morse, 22, was jailed after he took a video of Daniel Knott and shared it on social media.
Morse was one of the first people to find Daniel, who died in March last year, Wales Online reports. Earlier this week Morse, of Llysonnen Road, Travellers Rest, on the outskirts of Carmarthen, was sentenced to six weeks in prison during a hearing at Llanelli Magistrates' Court.
He pleaded guilty to circulating a video on social media that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character. The video has been taken down from the internet, but Daniel's family are angered that he was not sentenced to a longer jail term and want more regulations put in place to stop anything like this happening again to another family.
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Daniel's mum Jenny Tancock said: "To lose a child is the worst thing anyone could experience. To lose a child to suicide adds another level of pain. To then find out that some sicko has filmed our son there, so vulnerable, beggars belief."
She added: "I haven't seen the video, I couldn't watch it but the thought of it is unbearable. It is worse than if he had walked into my house and hit me over the head with a baseball bat. It is hard to explain the pain but it is a physical thing."
For now Jenny wants to remember her "beautiful son". "From the day he was born he was a larger than life character: hyper-intelligent, bright, funny, quirky, rebellious, sometimes naughty, but oh-so-full of energy and life," she said in a victim impact statement that was submitted to the court.
"He oozed love and affection -