Outrage as sick trolls ‘joke’ about finding MADDIE on Pokemon Go

Trolls have posted sick jokes on social media suggesting missing Madeleine McCann can be found on the Pokemon Go game.

Vile yobs have used Twitter and Facebook to make shocking comments linking Madeleine to the new craze, which has seen millions of people hunting for Pokemon using a mobile phone app.

A man using the name Scott Rennie, from Glasgow, published a highly offensive image in which Madeleine's face was superimposed on a screenshot of the Pokemon app along with the message: "Doon dalmuir park doing pre season wae ma gowdie boys when a stumbled across the rarest of Pokemon."

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A comment below the shocking post, which was liked six times, said: "That's no funny."

But another person wrote: "You evil wee man. I chuckled also."

Other highly offensive remarks posted on Facebook include one by Brad McKenzie which said: "If Madeleine McCann was a Pokemon she wouldn't still be missing."

And Kayleigh Vercetti, from Inverness, wrote: "If Madeleine McCann was a Pokemon she wouldn't still be missing."

A number of people also posted appalling comments on Twitter discussing Pokemon Go and Maddie.

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Little Madeleine was just three when she disappeared in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.

Pokemon Go was released in the UK last Thursday after already becoming one of the most-downloaded apps on smart phones in America.