'It's insensitive and stupid': Helen Flanagan causes outrage after posting a photo pointing a gun to her head following tragic Sandy Hook massacre

Helen Flanagan has caused outrage after publishing a tasteless picture of herself with a gun to her head - on the day the first victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were laid to rest.
The soapstar posted the picture of herself in a lacy black bra on Monday, as the world still reeled in shock from the tragedy in the US.
Along with the picture she posted the message: ‘Head f***’.

 

Enlarge   Tasteless: Helen Flanagan has caused a backlash after posting this 'insensitive' photo of herself holding a gun to her head on the same day the first victims of the Sandy Hook massacre are laid to rest

Twenty children aged six and seven, and six adults, were brutally shot dead in their classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, by gunman Adam Lanza, shortly after school began on Friday.
In the I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! jungle the Coronation Street actress, 22, was ridiculed for showing off her figure at every opportunity.
But her latest quest for attention has backfired as she was last night accused of insensitivity and brainless stupidity.

 

Outrage: She decide to share the image as the world is still in mourning over the tragedy but later opted to delete her tweet

The crass stunt was condemned on Monday by an angry father at the shrine to the victims in Connecticut.
He told a newspaper: ‘It’s just ignorance when the eyes of the world are on what happened here, to be posing with a gun like that is insensitive and stupid.'
Helen originally posed for the glamorous photographs back in October as she channelled her idol Marilyn Monroe for a shoot.

 

Thoughtless: She originally posed for the glamorous shots in October but decided to repost the images on Monday evening

But distastefully on Monday evening she decided to repost the image next to the caption: 'Head f**k'.
She has since removed the image, along with the original photo she posted up in October.
But the move has caused outrage from online fans, particularly as it came on the day of the first funerals of Adam Lanza's victims.
One took to the micro-blogging site to condemn the soap star, branding her an 'insensitive b**ch', while another wrote: 'You are sick & should be disgusted. cannot believe your stupid gun photo.'
A representative for Flanagan has been contacted by the MailOnline for comment, without success.