The family of a teenage girl who died in a horrific car crash has condemned ‘sick and twisted’ website postings about her.

Days after Charlotte Wilson, 16, was killed last October friends set up a condolence page on social networking site Facebook.

But the page has now been infiltrated by cruel postings, including images of cars smashed into walls, causing additional anguish to her family, said her aunt Sharon Brennan.

Charlotte, of Buttershaw, Bradford, was a back-seat passenger in a Renault Megane which crashed into a drystone wall in Chat Hill Road, Thornton, Bradford, early on Saturday, October 3.

One poster, calling himself Rusty Shackleford, comments on one of the images, saying: “Look at that poor defenceless wall!”

Another of the shocking images is of a naked man with Charlotte’s face on it.

Mrs Brennan said: “We’ve complained to Facebook but nothing has been taken off. These are cruel and wicked things, just sick and twisted.

“We know anyone who actually knew Charlotte would not do anything like this.

“We suspect it’s coming from people in America – some of them refer to cell phones, and we don’t call them that here.

“We’ve cried a lot. It’s broken our hearts all over again – not that they could ever mend.”

Now the family is appealing to whichever of Charlotte’s friends set up the page to shut it down.

Mrs Brennan said: “We are told they are the only ones who can close it down. We know the page was set up by someone who meant well but it’s gone horribly wrong.

“We are also asking friends to ignore the sick comments and not to react to them because that will make it worse. Facebook can be a good thing. Charlotte’s mum has her own page for Charlotte and that helps. She talks to Charlotte’s friends every day and that keeps her going.

“It’s hard for us all without our beautiful Charlotte but this has made it even harder.”

Charlotte’s family had thought she was tucked up safe in bed at a friend’s house the night she died, but the A-grade pupil, who was in the sixth form at Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College, had gone out in a car.

After the tragedy happened her dad Scott, who described her as a sensible girl and “our bright star”, said: “We’ve all been teenagers and done things our parents haven’t known about.

“If she had got away with it and come home the next morning it would have been a secret and that would have been the end of it.

“But she did not come home. It went the wrong way and she paid the ultimate price for that.”

Since her death, her family has urged other teenagers to stay safe.

l An 18-year-old Queensbury man has been arrested and bailed by police in connection with her death.