Former Space singer Tommy Scott has spoken out again about the prankster who killed him off in a bogus email.

As reported yesterday on Gigwise, a fake email was sent to local press in Liverpool stating that Scott had died of heart failure aged 37 on March 31. A tombstone was also featured on his record label's website.

The singer, who now performs with The Drellas, was left angry and upset after his mother heard the news of his 'death' on Radio Merseyside.

Speaking today, Scott admitted he's still in shock: “I’m devastated. The first I knew my mum was on the phone in bits. She’d heard it on the radio and couldn’t get through on the phone to me at first. As far as she knew, I was a dead man. My aunties all came round, my sisters were in tears. The whole family thought I was dead, and I didn’t know anything about it.

“The only saving grace was that I was with my wife, so she was spared the upset.

“My little daughter was with us, watching the TV. She doesn’t know anything about it - and I don’t want her to. I don’t want her to even think her daddy could be dead. She’d be terrified.”

Scott went on to explain to the Liverpool Echo that the culprit of the hoax is still yet to be found.

He continued: “They’re investigating now to find out who did this – and why. I can’t understand why anyone would do something like that, particularly so close to the Hillsborough anniversary.

“These jokers ought to be thinking about people who actually died in tragic circumstances, not hurting innocent people like this. There are real people who die every day from heart failure and this just makes a mockery of them.

"My mum, well my whole family, are still upset. I’m gutted. I really am.”

Space performed at the Hillsborough Justice Concert at Anfield in 1996 alongside Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers and The Beautiful South.

(by Scott Colothan)