The winner of a prestigious award for novelists has revealed how she takes part in the "international sport" of disliking Gerry and Kate McCann.
In a venomous attack on the family, Mann Booker Prize winner Anne Enright wrote that she was "angry" that Kate and Gerry McCann "refused to accept" their daughter was dead.
"Disliking the McCanns is an international sport," she writes.
"I disliked the McCanns earlier than most people (although I am not proud).
"I thought I was angry with them for leaving their children alone.
"In fact, I was angry at their failure to accept that their daughter was probably dead."
Enright, 45, was this week's surprise winner of the literary prize for her book The Gathering.
But earlier this month the Irish novelist wrote an essay about the McCanns in the London Review of Books.
Entitled Disliking the McCanns, the 2,000-word piece discusses public perceptions of the couple.
Enright says she does not share some of the public "animosity" towards the "beautiful mother" Mrs McCann.
But she has few warm words for Mr McCann.
"I find Gerry McCann's need to 'influence the investigation' more provoking," she writes.
"The sad fact is that this man cannot speak properly about what is happening to himself and his wife... the language he uses is more appropiate to a corporate executive than to a desperate father.
"This may just be the way he is made. This may be all he has of himself to give the world just now.
"But we are all used to the idea of corporations lying to us, one way or another - it's part of our mass paranoia."
Madeleine disappeared from the couple's holiday apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on May 3.
Both parents are being treated by Portuguese police as formal suspects.
Writing in his blog this week, Mr McCann said: "Kate and I do NOT accept that Madeleine is 'probably' dead. We know it is a possibility."
Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said the couple were "realistic enough" to know there was a "probability" she had died.
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