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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Cathy Owen & Andrew Bardsley

'Someone found my son's dead body... and then posted a video of his body on social media'

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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