Tw0 more parents have told the Oxford Mail how their children were victims of bullying at an Oxford secondary school.

One mother said her daughter had acid thrown at her during a science lesson at Peers School, in Littlemore, and became so unhappy that she took an overdose of 80 painkillers She told the Mail yesterday: "This is not an isolated incident. The bullying at Peers is horrendous, I don't care what (headteacher) Lorna Caldicott says."

The concerned mothers contacted us after we reported yesterday that a 14-year-old Peers pupil had taken an overdose of painkillers on Monday.

The girl, whose family said she was bullied at school, was still being treated at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital last night.

Now it has been revealed that she is the second pupil to try to take her own life, after another 14-year-old pupil was taken to hospital in October.

The mother of that schoolgirl, who does not want to be identified, said: "I was absolutely incensed to read that this had happened again.

"This is once too often. They need to listen, it takes a lot for a child to go to the teachers because they know that it might make the situation worse."

She believes her daughter and the girl hospitalised this week were bullied by the same people.

"It was hitting, punching, and spitting and the teachers were aware of it. My daughter was being bullied for a good six or seven months."

After the acid incident teachers removed her daughter from classes but not her attacker.

Her mother said: "It should be him that is taken out of lessons. Most mornings she is crying, saying 'do I have to go to school?' Some days she just can't go in because she is having panic attacks."

A third mother, who also wanted to remain anonymous, said that a bully who physically attacked her daughter was allowed to remain at school and continued to target other girls.

She said: "It alarms me that this happened to my daughter and continues to happen to other girls and yet the bully is still at school.

"It seems ironic that when someone is being bullied the person is taken out of school and the bully stays there. How many times has it got to happen before the bully is suspended?"

Yesterday, our reporters contacted the school four times by telephone to ask about the further claims of bullying.

At the end of the school day deputy head Alison Robb-Webb said she did not know the details of individual cases.

She said it was not policy to take the victims out of classes, but added: "It may be that we have moved the victim rather than the bully, but that is certainly not to punish them.

"It may have been because of ability sets, where they can be moved to and where their friends are."

The school had a number of methods for dealing with bullying, she said, from 'restorative justice meetings' which could include all the parents, bully, victim, teachers and police, to the last resort of exclusion.