LINE Of Duty boss Jed Mercurio has hit back at a viewer who called the hit BBC drama a “cheap little show”.
The 55-year-old show runner had a stinging rebuke for the Twitter user, who wrote a message addressed to him.
It came after the controversial finale of the sixth series of Line of Duty, which was watched by a record 12.8 million people but left many disappointed.
Believing the drama had made a dig at PM Boris Johnson, Twitter user Lorraine told Jed: “You should be ASHAMED.
“Using your cheap little show which built up everyones hopes in a time of CRISIS just to throw a dig at our GREAT Prime Minister 
without whom you wouldnt be writing for the taxpayer.
“Making a brain dead brummy the head honcho?? An absolute joke of ending.”
But Jed replied: “Lorraine is the result of what would happen if Jackie Laverty’s body parts were reassembled in the wrong order.”
Property mogul Jackie, a Line Of Duty star in the very first series, was working for a crime gang when she started an air with crooked crop Tony Gates.
Murdered by the thugs – or, to use Line of Duty parlance, OCG – she was chopped up and stored in a freezer for years to come.
Her DNA was only discovered in the sixth series when cops spotted a fridge missing from Terry Boyle’s flat.
Tracking it down investigators found a minor blood trace matching Laverty’s DNA that allowed them to link the gang to the modern-day murder of journalist Gail Vella.
The Twitter post came after some fans speculated that bungling DCI Ian Buckells – who turned out to be a criminal mastermind – was based on Boris Johnson.
