Hoax DJs castigated and taken off the air

2Day FM presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian, whose initial apology for the prank call to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge was followed by further boasts about it, have been bombarded with online abuse following the news that nurse Jacintha Saldanha had taken her own life.

The pair remarked during their Hot30 Countdown show how their efforts were the “easiest prank call ever made”.

The duo continued to boast about the gag on Twitter while in a video on the radio station’s website they laughed and joked about it.