[Margaret Pilkington]

It does no harm at all for parents to teach their children some basic internet safety rules too....yes, put parental controls in place(this is harder if your child uses a computer over which you have no control, not all parents are vigilant).....make sure that the children are aware of the risks, make sure that they know not to give out any personal information.....and most of all to be suspicious, and report to their parents anything that they are uncomfortable with.(however uncool this might be....better to be uncool than dead)

This girl was seventeen, and should have had a bit more sense.......but the bottom line is this chap should have been on the police radar, and he wasn't.

It is a tragedy, but one from which all parents can take a lesson. We are never ever going to be able to monitor and prevent all the tricks the perverts get up to, but we can give our children help and information that makes them more aware of what can happen.