Brodie Panlock took her won life in 2006 following persistent aggressive verbal attacks by three of her co-workers at Cafe Vamp in Melbourne where she was employed as a waitress.

During the court case, it emerged that the nineteen-year-old had been spat on and regularly insulted with name-calling such as ugly and fat.

Magistrate Garry Livermore said that the cafe bathed in an atmosphere of poison.

The three individuals charged under Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety Act in this case have all pleaded guilty.

Today, twenty-six-year-old Nicholas Smallwood, twenty-eight-year-old Rhys MacAlpine and twenty-three-year-old Gabriel Toomey, received fines ranging from $10,000 to $45,000 each.

Magistrate Livermore said three regularly verbally bullied Ms Panlock by using names such as stupid, fat, ugly and whore. He added that the victim’s jewellery and her haircut were also viciously targeted by the trio.

Mr. Smallwood was said to have been intimately involved with the victim but that didn’t stop his sordid behaviour.

Marc Luis Da Cruz, the owner of Cafe Vamp was charged with failing to provide a safe workplace and was fined $220,000.

Rae Panlock, Brodie’s mother, spoke to reporters outside court today and said that her daughter was a beautiful girl full of compassion.

She described Brodie as a her “little ray of sunshine”, adding that she was a very pretty girl and a loving kid.

In her passing, the young woman leaves her parents as well as her two brothers.

On the other side of the planet, a controversial advert about bullying made some serious waves in January when it what ruled inappropriate for TV airing by British regulators.

The advert, which was created for the charity Beatbullying, depicted a girl with her mouth stitched, thus stopping her from speaking.

Beatbullying opted to present the campaign through nationwide cinemas after Clearcast, the government organisation responsible for giving clearance for TV commercial scripts, said that advert was too graphic.

Although it never made to the British television sets, the fact that it had been banned for TV created a large amount of controversy and thus gave it some more publicity.