**WARNING: This film would be rated as a 15 certificate if shown in cinemas**

A HARROWING film raising awareness of online grooming has gone viral.

More than 4 million people have watched the film from Leicestershire Police in 48 hours.

Kayleigh’s Love Story, which would carry a 15 certificate if it was shown in cinemas, is about the last 13 days of the life of 15-year-old Kayleigh Haywood.

The Leicestershire schoolgirl was groomed online by Luke Harlow, a man she had never met, before being raped and murdered by his next door neighbour Stephen Beadman.

Over the course of 13 days Kayleigh and Harlow exchanged 2643 messages.

Harlow told the 15-year-old all the things many teenage girls want to hear.

He told her she was beautiful, how much he cared for her and that she was special.

Harlow was grooming Kayleigh, along with two other young girls he had also been speaking to.

But it was Kayleigh that finally agreed to his requests to spend the night of Friday 13 November 2015 at his house.

She spent the next day with him too, and in the early hours of Sunday 15 November, having been held against her will by Harlow and by his next door neighbour Stephen Beadman, Kayleigh was raped and murdered by Beadman.

A spokesman added: "With the support of Kayleigh’s family, Leicestershire Police has made a film about aspects of the last two weeks of her life.

"Kayleigh’s Love Story is as a warning to young people, both girls and boys, about the dangers of speaking to people they don’t know online.

"The film highlights just how quick and easy it can be for children to be groomed online without them or those around them knowing it is happening.

"Its purpose is to protect children now and in the future and to stop another family losing a child in this way."

Deputy Chief Constable Roger Bannister of Leicester Police said: "To have reached so many people and for the film to have been seen by so many in such a short space of time is remarkable.

"It contains a really important message, a message for children and parents alike, and I believe it has the potential to keep many tens of thousands of children safe from the threat posed by predators online."