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MADDIE STUNT FURY
A vile stunt in which a group of Hackney artists made pornographic artwork using images of Madeleine McCann has sparked outrage.
Decima Gallery, based in Smeed Road, said they pasted photographs of the missing four-year-old on to pornographic magazines in an attempt to satirise her treatment at the hands of the media.
A spokesman for the McCann family said the stunt distracted from the search for their daughter, who was three when she vanished from a family holiday in Portugal in 2007.
Meg Hiller, the MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, branded the stunt "sick and appalling."
She said: "Hackney has a reputation as an artistic place with artists who do interesting and sometimes provocative work, but this sort of thing doesn't do the reputation of Hackney any good."
Decima, which opened a gallery in Smeed Road, Hackney Wick, last year, has carved out a reputation for staging provocative exhibitions and events.
The latest event was hosted in Riverside Close, Lower Clapton, on Sunday afternoon.
A spokeswoman for the NSPCC told the Gazette: "This is appalling and completely insensitive to the family of Madeleine McCann.
"Even allowing for artistic freedom there is no excuse for encouraging people to indulge in something as distasteful as this."
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