it s this secret world where you can do and say exactly what you want without any comeuppance. if they had been at school and somebody had overhead those conversations, something would have happened. but it s, they canjust be completely covered away, say and do what they like. the young people plotting to attack olly were communicating with each other using voice notes sent via the snapchat messaging app. police recovered almost 2,000 voice notes from their phones. some of the messages are shocking. you got poison in the heart, fam. olly, you re gonna die tomorrow. the two boys who had fallen out with olly then tried to recruit a girl to help with their plan. one posted this message on snapchat: @hatedzz refers to olly s username on social media. fam, this is the hated dzi,
that is why this bill is so necessary. stuart and amanda fear that the bill in its current form wouldn t have saved olly. the companies, they were supposed to self govern, they ve been very lax with it. ultimately, children should not be seeing what they are seeing through their phones. and these companies need to be held to account. olly s case involved content that might be legal but is considered harmful to young people. stuart wrote to the minister, urging the government to listen to olly s story. we are ordinary people caught in the front line fighting for our children s futures. as a cabinet, please listen to us as parents. thank you, stuart stephens. the legal but harmful stuff, we know what s, what s happening with that. we know the format it s going to follow in and what exactly, what is going to come into the bill. but it s not there yet. it, well, the bill will be law soon, and it will be in the bill by then.
hi, thank you for meeting with us. pleased to meet you. olly s parents want to ask frances why young people are exposed to posts like this on social media. we believe other parents need to know what we ve been through. they are open and exposed to so much that is so bad. and you have no idea it s happening under your roof. we ve known for maybe five i or ten years that social media doesn tjust provide a channelj where hate can be delivered it can also provide an incentive to generate hate. no one at facebook,| no one at instagram, no one at any of these social| media companies says i want overexposure to violence. but what did happen is these products are designed - as the sum of lots of little choices. l so they say a or b, a or b. and each time, the goal- is to get you to spend more
territory of kaliningrad on the baltic coast. lithuania says it is within its rights to enforce sanctions imposed by the european union. now on bbc news, it s panorama. it s very social in this road. everybody knows each other. it is a friendly place to live. amanda and stuart stephens have lived on the outskirts of reading for 19 years. their two children grew up here. as you come down the road, you see the valley and you see the field and you see all of that. it did feel quite safe. one sunday afternoon their 13 year old son, olly, left the house, grabbing his phone and saying he was heading to meet a friend nearby.
olly died in the field where he d been stabbed. the police began to investigate. this was a very unusual case from our perspective, we were taken away really, taken aback by the amount of digital evidence. it was probably, from my experience as a senior investigating officer, an unprecedented investigation in that respect. that digital evidence from mobile phones would lead to a murder trial. two boys, aged 13 and 14 when olly was killed, were convicted of murder. a 13 year old girl admitted manslaughter. because of their age, their identities are protected. i m marianna spring, the bbc s specialist social media reporter. i ve been investigating the circumstances surrounding olly s murder. i started by talking to some of his friends about him.