Cleo Smith’s biological dad posts a heartwarming message on the front door of his house – as she’s reunited with her mum and stepdad

• Cleo Smith’s biological dad breaks silence after his daughter was found alive
• Daniel Staines has stuck a Welcome Home Cleo sign to front door of his home 
• Sign is similar to dozens plastered around daughter’s hometown 1,000km away

The biological dad of Cleo Smith has posted a heartwarming note to his front home hours after his daughter was found alive and well.

The four-year-old was reunited with her family on Wednesday, 18 days after she vanished from their tent at a remote campsite 75km north of her hometown of Carnarvon in Western Australia.

Cleo’s biological dad Daniel Staines lives with his parents 1000km south of Carnarvon.

He has put up a ‘Welcome Home Cleo’ sign featuring a blue love heart on the front door of his Halls Head home located 77km south of Perth.

Cleo Smith (pictured) was reunited with her family on Wednesday, 18 days after she vanished from their remote campsite

Cleo’s biological dad Daniel Staines posted this sign on the front door of his Halls Head home south of Perth

Mr Staines broke his silence for the first time a day earlier to express his joy and relief that Cleo had been found.

‘We are all absolutely overjoyed at the good news this morning and so happy that Cleo has been reunited with her mum and dad,’ the Staines family said in a written  statement to The West Australian.

‘Thank you to everyone who helped look for her and bring her home, particularly the WA Police, SES and the Carnarvon community.’

Mr Staines and his family sent Cleo, her mother Ellie Smith and stepfather Jake Gliddon their ‘best wishes’.

The note is similar to dozens of Welcome Home Cleo signs plastered around Carnarvon, where Cleo has spent her first night back home snuggled up her mum, stepfather and baby sister. 

Welcome Home Cleo were the final words of WA Deputy Police Commissioner Col Blanch’s video message to the world confirming that Cleo was alive and well.

WA Deputy Police Commissioner Col Blanch said Cleo and her family slept in the same room on Wednesday night and ‘cuddled all night’.

Mr Blanch said her parents are relieved to have their little girl home after police beat the odds to find Cleo safe and alive.

‘Ellie and Jake had been through 18 days of hell and I know Australia have felt that with them,’ he told 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Thursday.

‘They had a small amount of hope, but I thought they probably thought they were never going to give her a cuddle again.

WA Deputy Police Commissioner Col Blanch has revealed Cleo slept together in the same room as her mum, stepdad and baby sister and ‘cuddled all night’ after her incredible rescue 

‘I’m pretty sure they all slept in the same room just cuddling all night.’

West Australian police officers found the missing four-year-old girl at a Carnarvon home about 1am on Wednesday, almost three weeks after she vanished.

Terry Kelly, 36, who was not in the home when it was raided, has been arrested in connection with Cleo’s abduction from her parents’ tent at Blowholes campsite, 74km away, on October 16.

Cleo’s biological dad and his parents broke their silence through a note stuck to their front door (pictured) and a written statement

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