A SICK Facebook troll has admitted he should be jailed after posting vile insults about young Brits who have tragically died.

Paul Hind targeted four social media pages – including a tribute site for Essex University student Hannah Witheridge – with a series of disgusting posts which included images of dead bodies and children who were terminally ill.

Miss Witheridge, 23, was killed on the Thai island of Koh Tao in 2014 where she had been travelling. Her body was found with 24-year-old David Miller from Jersey who had also been visiting the island.

During that time she had been living in Morant Road, Colchester, and studying for a masters degree at Essex University.

South East Northumberland Magistrates’ Court heard how Hind, 38, had also posted on Facebook about Olivia Burt – a Durham University Student who died form head injuries outside a nightclub in the city in February, Joe Tilley, 24, who was found dead at the bottom of a waterfall in Colombia in May, and 19-year-old Duncan Sim, whose remains were found at West Sands in St Andrews earlier this year.

He admitted four separate offences of conveying false information which was indecent or grossly offensive, relating to four dead people.

District Judge Kate Meek sent the case to Newcastle Crown Court for sentence on September 27.

Speaking outside court after the hearing, Hind said he was "deeply sorry" for his actions and that he had done them "for attention".

Describing how he was suffering from mental health issues and was "highly intoxicated" at the time of the offences, he said: "All I can say to the families for the actions I have committed is sorry, that is all I can say - sorry.

"I don't expect them to accept any apology from me whatsoever for what I have done."

When asked whether his actions could be seen as worthy of a jail sentence, Hind, of Westacres, Wark in Northumberland said: "From my point of view, personally, and for what I did, I would say yes.

"I do deserve a punishment, and I don't just deserve a punishment of being banned from social media, trying to apologise to the parents and forgetting about the whole thing.

"I have to be punished accordingly for causing people the anxiety and the stress I have caused them, there's no question about that."