Father of two-year-old ends life with fatal dose of prescription pills after being abused on Facebook

The family of a man who took the drastic step of ending his life after receiving horrific abuse online has called for stricter social media moderation to prevent such deaths in the future.

27-year-old Kenny Gregg, a chef from Dundonald, Northern Ireland, committed suicide on January 3, 2019, by consuming a deadly cocktail of his mother's painkillers. He leaves behind a two-year-old daughter, Esme, according to the Sun Online, 

The night before his death, he told his mother Ann that he loved her. Just before 4 am that same morning, he sent text messages to both his younger sister, Carolyn, and his ex-girlfriend, Lindsay Greer, telling them that he loved them.

He then proceeded to fatally overdose himself by swallowing his mother's prescription painkillers and was found later that morning by Ann. She started shaking him and tried to rouse him, but became "frantic" after she noticed that his lips were blue.

After trying CPR on him for five minutes, she ran out into the street screaming for help, and when paramedics arrived at their residence, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Carolyn said Gregg was suffering from depression and had gone through a "bad period" from July 2018, and that she and the family believe he committed suicide because there were things written about him online that "he couldn't deal with."

She revealed that there was one post in particular which spouted a lot of hate against her brother and garnered traction in the day prior to his death that was responsible for him deciding to end his life.

"There were more than 40 horrible comments under this post, all saying what an awful person Kenny was," she said, adding, "He felt like his reputation was in tatters."