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THE grieving mum of a British teenager killed in a Thai coach crash has blasted a Guardian newspaper journalist who cruelly mocked his death on Twitter.
Devastated Madeleine Boomgaarden said columnist Kia Abdullah had caused the family "much pain" and urged the newspaper to ban her.
Cruel... columnist Kia Abdullah
Gap year students Max Boomgaarden-Cook, Bruno Melling-Firth and Conrad Quashie, all 19, died instantly when the coach they were travelling in was hit by another bus as they travelled from Bangkok on Tuesday.
Within minutes Abdullah tweeted: "Is it really awful that I don't feel any sympathy for anyone killed on a gap year?"
Unbelievably, she then added: "I actually smiled when I saw that they had double-barrelled surnames. Sociopathic?"
Cruel... columnist Kia Abdullah
Max's mum used Twitter to reply: "Your words have caused much pain. As the stepmother of one of the boys whose Thai bus coach deaths you laughed at, hope you regret the pain & your career dented.
"Didn't you realise that double-barrelled names mean a modern family coming together? We had a wonderful family with 4 boys."
Masterchef judge Jay Rayner, who also writes for The Guardian, wrote: "Max Boomgaarden-Cook's parents are friends of mine. The pain and hurt she has caused is appalling."
As a Twitter campaign was launched to get Abdullah banned from The Guardian website she writes for, she was forced to apologise and deleted the tweets. She wrote: "What I said was very stupid and heartless and I really should know better. I'm sorry."
A statement by The Guardian stopped short of declaring a ban on Abdullah, insisting it "is not responsible for what occasional contributors write on Twitter".
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