A brother sent threatening messages to girls he believed had bullied his 14-year-old sister before her death.
Jordan Clements, 20, sent a series of threats to four girls after Nyah James was was found dead in her home in Swansea in February this year.
The Mirror reports that Clements told one teenager she would 'be strung up with dead cows in the butchers', and that he would 'slice up' her parents.
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Jordon also told one of the teenagers, who cannot be named for legal reasons: "I know what you did. You are going to regret this for the rest of your life."
The court heard the victim impact statements from the teenagers in which they said they were scared for their safety after Clements sent the messages.
Nyah James (Credit: Facebook)
Clements has now been released on bail while the judge obtains more information on the case and has been banned from contacting the teenagers and using social media.
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The coroner is currently investigating Nyah's death.
Bullying is a problem which plagues almost every school and it's an awful thing to have to experience.
It's even worse when the victim sees no way out of the suffering and takes their own life.
A mum spoke out after her son committed suicide at the age of 17, hoping people would take notice.
Felix and Lucy. Credit: SWNS
The bullying began in 2009 when Felix admitted to classmates that he wasn't allowed to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which has an 18 certificate. It gradually got worse and worse and ended up online, meaning he had no escape from the bullies, even at home.
His mum Lucy wrote: "His confidence and self-esteem had been eroded over a long period of time by the bullying behaviour he experienced in secondary education.
"It began with unkindness and social isolation and, over the years, with the advent of social media, it became cruel and overwhelming. People who had never even met Felix were abusing him.
"He was however so badly damaged by the abuse, isolation and unkindness he had experienced, that he was unable to see just how many people truly cared for him.
"He had been targeted for many, many years. It was generalised cruelty. He was known as the most hated person in the year at school.
"It started with social isolation when he was around 10. He didn't get invited to parties and wasn't included in weekend activities. Then the online abuse started when he was 14. It was initially via the website Ask.fm and then it escalated with basically every social media platform you could imagine."
According to Ditch the Label, 1.5 million young people were bullied within the past year in the UK and 145,800 of these were bullied every day.
And, according to the research, it's boys who are more vulnerable - and do most of the bullying.
If you're going through anything like this, there are plenty of places that can help.
MIND: 0300 123 3393.
Samaritans: 116 123.
CALM: Outside London 0808 802 5858, inside London 0800 58 58 58.
Or go to Ditch The Label.
Featured Image Credit: Facebook/Jordan Clements