POLICE bosses have reported Katie Hopkins to Twitter after posting an offensive message about the five deaths at Camber Sands.

The 41-year-old, who is know for her offensive views and outspoken columns, posed a question to her 650,000 followers yesterday.

She said: "5 dead at Camber Sands were: aspiring footballers, mentally ill, fans of Anders Brevik or big fans of inflatables?"

Many of her fans posted back equally offensive comments while others condemned her.

Twitter user Stewart Ayrey, from London, contacted Sussex Police and asked if anything could be done about the tweet.

The force responded by stating that while it was not criminal it was insensitive and they reported Hopkins to Twitter.

The Sussex Police Twitter account said: "Simply not appropriate to joke about five deaths the day after the incident.

"Our primary concern is for the thoughts and feelings of the next of kin of those who sadly died at Camber."

Hopkins's tweet was reported under the categories "abusive or harmful" and "disrespectful or offensive".

It has now been removed.

It is not the first time Hopkins has sparked outrage with her comments.

In April 2015 she made a series of tweets suggesting people with dementia were "bed blockers" who take up scarce hospital beds. She was condemned by leading charities and health bosses.

After it was revealed Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey had contracted Ebola while working in a hospital in Africa, she tweeted "Little sweaty jocks, sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket. Scottish NHS sucks."

But most of her comments have been aimed at migrants, who she has refereed to as "cockroaches" and "feral humans" who are "spreading like the norovirus".

Last year she used her Daily Mail column to defend Presidential candidate Donald Trump after he called for Muslims to be banned from entering the US.

Trump responded by calling her a "respected journalist".

Hopkins has repeatedly defended herself by stating that she is merely defending free speech.