Caroline Flack’s mother Christine has posted scathing comments about her late daughter’s former partner Lewis Barton on Instagram.
Lewis has started dating Lottie Tomlinson, the sister of One Direction singer Louis, and Christine appeared to comment on the new relationship.
The grieving mother commented under a post on Caroline’s Instagram account of her and Lewis at Winter Wonderland last year, taken just weeks before her tragic death.
Tragic: Caroline Flack’s mother Christine has posted scathing comments about her late daughter’s former partner Lewis Barton on Instagram
The snap shows the then couple smiling happily at the Christmas fair.
Despite the photo being uploaded in November last year, Christine posted comments under the post just three weeks ago.
With the username ccjep, Christine wrote: ‘He is now in the same pose different girl.’
Upset: Grieving mother Christine, pictured with the former Love Island host, commented under old posts on Caroline’s Instagram account that featured Lewis
Angry: Despite the photo being uploaded in November last year, Christine posted comments under the post just weeks ago
Another follower commented: ‘He’s got a new gal and she’s dead. I honestly blame his womanising ways, poor Caroline.’
Christine replied: ‘I agree.’
She also wrote elsewhere in the comments section: ‘I feel the same this photo is a lie.’
Painful: In another snap on Caroline’s Instagram of her and Lewis sunbathing together, Christine has left further disparaging remarks
In another snap on Caroline’s Instagram of her and Lewis sunbathing together, Christine has left further disparaging remarks.
She wrote: ‘This relationship did end her life.’ She then added: ‘Want this deleted so much.’
It comes after Caroline’s tearful mother blasted the Crown Prosecution Service for pursuing a ‘show trial’ of her daughter as her inquest revealed police pushed for the Love Island presenter to be prosecuted.
Heartbroken: Christine posted under an account bearing her name and Caroline’s representatives have confirmed to MailOnline she wrote the comments
Caroline, well known for hosting Love Island and The X Factor, was found hanged at her home.
She had been due to stand trial for assaulting her boyfriend, former tennis player and model Lewis, after police arrived at the bloodstained scene described it looking like ‘a horror movie’.
Christine gave a written statement to the court in which she claimed her daughter had been ‘let down’ by the authorities.
New relationship: Lewis has been holidaying with his new girlfriend Lottie Tomlinson in Ibiza recently
‘I believe Caroline was seriously let down by the authorities and in particular the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) for pursuing the case,’ she said.
‘I believe this was a show trial. I feel the prosecutor was unkind to Caroline and my family. I was threatened with arrest when I tried to speak.’
The inquest went into detail about her poor mental health in the months leading up to her death, including evidence at the crime scene that she had self-harmed.
Lisa Ramsarran, a deputy chief Crown prosecutor in north London, said the CPS had considered her mental health while deciding whether to authorise a charge against her but decided the risk was ‘low’.
During the inquest a coroner ruled that Caroline killed herself after hearing she would definitely be prosecuted for assaulting her boyfriend.
Caroline was found dead a day after hearing the Crown Prosecution Service would go ahead with a trial for allegedly attacking her boyfriend.
Coroner Mary Hassell gave a verdict of suicide, saying: ‘I am entirely satisfied she intended to cause her own death. She hanged herself.
‘I find the reason for her taking her life was she now knew she was being prosecuted for certainty, and she knew she would face the media, press, publicity – it would all come down upon her. To me, that’s it in essence.’
Trial: Caroline the day after she had learned the CPS was charging her with allegedly assaulting her former tennis player and model boyfriend Lewis Burton, 27 (They are seen on a night out in London on October 16, 2019)