Teenage girl with Asperger's 'bullied for ten years'

Peers set her hair on fire and called her 'fat', 'ugly', 'weird', 'psycho'

EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY APRIL 16 Undated handout photo issued by anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label of Rebecca Parkin 16, from Sheffield, who was bullied for more than ten years because she has Asperger's syndrome, a form of high functioning autism, a case study in the Annual Bullying Survey, published by Brighton-based anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label, which has highlighted a direct correlation between bullying and the negative impact it has on education. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday April 15, 2014. See PA story SOCIAL Bullying. Photo credit should read: Bullet PR/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Rebecca Parkin, 16, from Sheffield, was bullied for more than 10 years because she has Asperger's syndrome, a form of high functioning autism.

She became so terrified of the physical attacks she suffered at school, which included older pupils trying to set her hair on fire when she was 11, that she stayed off school and her education suffered.