Madeleine - Outrage At Writer's 'Ghost' Blog

A WRITER has caused fury by publishing an "interview" with Madeleine McCann.

Jose Antonio Perez, 28, penned "Madeleine's ghost" online as a joke.

In his sickening blog, he pokes fun at the missing youngster, ridicules the search for her and makes an outrageous slur against her heartbroken mum Kate.

But last night, TV scriptwriter Perez was facing a massive backlash over the hugely offensive piece.

He was branded "pathetic" by readers of his website, which has been shortlisted for awards.

One disgusted blogger said: "How can you take the subject of a missing girl as a point of humour? Do you have no shame?"

Perez, who works for a top Spanish TV show, says Madeleine visited him at his home in Bilbao, Spain.

He says the ghost with a "cocky attitude" told him: "I'm the business of the century kid.

"They have sold more T-shirts with my face on than Mickey Mouse and have started to negotiate the rights to my story with Hollywood." Kate gave up her job as a GP as she struggled to cope with Maddie's disappearance and Perez also makes a shocking jibe about that.

She and Scots husband Gerry, doctors from Rothley, Leicestershire, have just endured their second Christmas without their daughter.

Perez, who writes for Spanish comedy El Hormiguero (The Anthill), uses his website Mi Mesa Cojea (My Table Wobbles) to publish jokes he can't get on telly. But he continued to mock the McCanns in a newspaper interview.

He told 20 Minutos: "I have spoken with God, with the ghost of little MadeleineMcCann, with Al Gore and next I will interview Barack Obama.

"So far, nobody has called me to complain. But I'm much more afraid of theMcCanns than I amof God."

Website readers have blasted Perez for writing about Madeleine and her devastated family.

One said: "It is a case that has caused sadness around the world.

"I can only tell you that people like you will go straight to hell for having no shame, for failing to respect the suffering of others."

A second said: "I think you're pathetic, ridiculous, meaningless.

"Tell me, what have you done of any worth? What gives you the right to spout such rubbish?"

Another added: "At least learn to spell before writing such bloody nonsense about that poor little angel."

And a fourth said: "You are a prat. You have no conscience."

Madeleine went missing on a family holiday in the Algarve, Portugal, in May last year, just days before her fourth birthday. A huge search has failed to find her.

'I'm much more afraid of the McCanns than God'