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1st November 2017
01:23pm GMT

"And before you say 'this is sick' etc I know it is but I'm not the one who left a child unattended in a Portuguese hotel," he wrote in another tweet.
The stunt got a huge backlash online and prompted a statement from Madeleine's parents.
"Kate and Gerry think he's an idiot and at his age should know better. What he did was deeply offensive and cruel," a spokesperson for the family said.
Daniel Gearie has apologised for dressing up as Madeleine in another post on his Twitter account, which he has since made private.
"At the weekend I made the most incredibly stupid, vile and disguisting decision of my life. I can honestly say that I am embarrassed and disgusted by my own behaviour and can only apologise for any offence that I caused anyone. There's no hiding from what I did, I have to hold my hands up and take responsibility for my own actions. "I am genuinely sorry for the hurt that I have caused to my family over the past few days and hope that one day they and anyone else that I hurt can forgive me. "For now though I have to reflect on who I currently am and how I can better myself as a person."Madeleine was a week shy of her fourth birthday when she went missing during a family holiday at the Praia Da Luz resort in the Algarve in May 2007.
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