Madeleine McCann: ‘Bad Dad’ Gerry McCann, The Psychic Barber And Drugs
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “Madeleine was drugged but it was by kidnapper says her grandmother.”
Page 9: “Madeleine’s family: She was drugged…but not by parents.”
Eileen McCann, Gerry’s mother – says: “I really believe they [whoever took her] gave her a drug. There is no way they carried her out of there without her waking. If she was taken when she was sleeping by somebody she did not know, she would have screamed the place down.”
Alternatively, she was taken by someone she did know? Or Mrs McCann is just speculating.
“’BAD DAD’ GERRY” – Carlos Anjos, head of the Portuguese Police Federation, says Gerry, “a heart consultant”, is a “negligent father”. This is his “astonishing rant”.
THE SUN front page: “Mystics hunt for Maddie.”
Around 150 leads provided by mystics have been followed up.
Page 6: “ASK PSYCHIC BARBER TO HELP FIND MADDIE” – Clairvoyant Gordon Smith has been contacted by the family. Smith hosts TV’s Most Haunted show. He says he can tell if Madeleine is alive or dead. Mick is nicknamed “THE PSYCHIC BARBER”.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “McCANNS: SHE WAS DRUGGED.”
Page 5: “‘Madeleine must have been drugged..she would have screamed place down’” – GRANDMOTHER EILEEN McCANN YESTERDAY.”
“Couple call on psychic to help” – Ex-hairdresser Smith is a “wacky medium”.
Says he: “In order for it to work I need to sit with the closest relatives who would be the parents. Then I’d tune in and see what I can pick up. But I would always warn them that there’s a possibility nothing might happen.”
Best to warn them of that first…
DAILY MAIL page 5: “Now police leader mocks ‘negligent’ Gerry McCann over his fears that an abductor was in Maddie’s room.”
“Call for the ‘psychic barber’” – “Despite both being strict Roman Catholics, the couple have already made contact” with Gordon Smith.
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE I’LL FIND BODY IN DAYS. Parents call in psychic.”
Page 7: “MADDIE’S PARENTS CALL FOR PSYCHIC BARBER” – “I have offered my help for free,” says Smith. “I never charge for private readings. I have already assured them I will say nothing to the press.” Indeed, not. Best save it for the book.
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 15: “Police chief accuses McCanns of hindering inquiry” – Carlos Anjos accuses McCanns of using “diversion tactics”.
THE TIMES page 27: “McCanns ‘considering psychic help’”
THE GUARDIAN no Maddie new today.
Madeleine McCann: A Life In Headlines
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October 2nd, 2007 at 11:41 am
119,
now now now Will no need to be so grouchy. Is this forum on your CV of achievements. Is this why you are getting so upset. What jobs are you applying for maybe I can help?
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:41 am
124 Sunny
There are miscarriages of justice occurring all around the world all the time. At not just those convicted - look around any housing estate at the guys driving around in Bentleys, BMWs etc who continually walk free from our courts…… if it ever makes it that far!
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:40 am
124 Please explain how this relates to the McCanns?
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 am
118,
so you think there has never been cases of serious miscarriages of justice. The Guildford 4 comes to mind.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 am
Asked this yesterday but no reply so will try again.
Does anyone know anymore about the animal crematorium link that was suggested a week or so ago.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:37 am
I am psychic, i am going to be the 230th post today, watch this space
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:36 am
109 thanks
Kate, lovers, steps, rubbish bag full of nappies, drugs, knocked out cold , other person dumps body mentioned on 21/7/2007
http://www.ukskeptics.com/commentary/2007/07/22/madeleine-mccann-psychic-predictions-and-insights/
I am a sceptic but this is quite spooky
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:35 am
105 - SSS. Don’t know his name but Chuckle Bros sound much more appropriate!
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:35 am
111 Sunny
A bit rich you criticising someones contribution to society (albeit a somewhat narrow and skewed version) as I believe I have had turds that have contributed more than you.
Sunny by name cloudy by nature.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:34 am
106 The real stig
If the police have the McCanns as suspects they’re hardly going to break much sweat with independant leads looking for the child if they feel the answer lies with the parents are they? If there’s no parallel effort to look for their child then the McCanns are obviously hiding something. And in any case they have money to follow the leads themselves but instead are more concerned about their own backs. If you were innocent you’d laugh off these accusations. And if you were innocent you wouldnt have such accusations thrown at you in the first place.
Do you really think all these contradictions and their suspect status are due to mistaken coincidence?
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:34 am
I even like Firestar,
though I do not agree with you that the McCanns are guilty, but sometimes man you can be very funny.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 am
108 The Real Stig
I think TRS stands for The Real Stig.
You don’t have much luck on these forums do you, with people always insulting you…..I do NOT understand the reason for this as except for that one time when you thought I was teasing you about your name and I offered an apology, you have always been okay.
Lay off him Susan - let us all TRY to be mature!
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 am
108 perhaps the fact that ….You British and your abhorrence of metrification amuse me…. is enough for as Susan says for you to fek off,for you are not in the least amusing.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 am
106 - Stig. But for the life of me I cannot understand why the McCanns will not answer the PJs questions. The parents are the first who have to be ruled out of any involvement - because in the majority of such cases it has, in the past, been shown that someone close to the child is involved.
Why will they not do this? Why will they not HELP the PJ rule them out? And before you say because they will be ‘framed’, I think that is not a good enough excuse. Their legal team is so full of heavy weights from both the UK and Portugal that I think their lawyers would make sure this could not happen.
So, the only conclusion I can reach is that they are either hiding something or they just don’t want to find their daughter.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:31 am
108,
I love you STIG!
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:31 am
110 - gossip then - still, don’t let that stop hours of speculation that it can only mean that the priest has tipped the Vatican the nod that the Doctors McCann confessed all to him.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:29 am
95,
I know it is laughable.
And that is old fart Tony Bennett’s contribution to society - holding on to archaic signage with miles and yards written on them. Wow what an achiever.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:28 am
Sorry SSS no I don’t,it was an oservation made by a chap,who had been working in one of the seminarys in Rome,that why I was asking if anyone else had heard of it,apologies for the no link.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 am
96 brandonflours
The only reference I have seen is to a syringe such as you use to orally administer medicine to babies with. No needles.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:23 am
99 susan
What is TRS? Why do you go overboard when I use the word ‘amuse’? Is their some deeply insulting connotation to the word I am unaware of? Why should I ‘fek’ off?
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 am
104 Liam
Do you have a link for this?
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 am
93 batman
You are dead right. Notice that when the Mccanns get pissed off and say the accusations made against them have derailed any investigative attempts to FIND Madeline, people find some way of twisting what is a serious and real point. I think the McCanns wouldn’t mind the accusations and investigation against them IF there were also signs there was a parallel effort being put into the possibility of an abduction in case the main theory doesn’t work out. But we don’t see that happening
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:18 am
100 Batman
By “double glazing boy” do you mean the Chuckle Brothers? They advertised double glazing, but I don’t think they supported the Mccanns.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:18 am
Hi everyone,has any one heard that the Vatican withdrew their Madeleine boards,after the Vatican security authorities interviewed the Portugese priest,I beleive the Swiss Guard are the official security as well as the ceremonial,thank you.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 am
Hello All
Well, Day 150 came and went without anything startling coming to light
I really hoped that she would be found/be closer to being found, but it would appear not.
Just to let you all know, the number 3 signifies plans which have finally come to fruition after months of planning (linked very closely with Year 3 if you believe in a 9 year cycle).
I guess all we can do now is hope and pray that, by some miracle, Madeleine is found safe and well somewhere - hopefully, being looked after by some one who loves her and wants to keep her safe.
I find this whole idea of her wandering out of the apartment and being taken by “chance”, or some stranger wandering in to the apartment by “chance” completely unbelievable, as surely, a stranger in a holiday village full of families would be noticed quite quickly, as MOST parents are quite vigilant/protective where their children are concerned.
This whole unanswered forty questions thing strikes me as completely weird too. I just do not understand people who, with nothing to hide, refuse to answer questions yet then turn around and speak quite freely to the media. I have been shot down before for saying this, but if it was me, I would have moved heaven and earth to find my child.
Saying that, I wouldn’t have left my children alone for 6 nights though.
Another thing, I read in a paper that the waiting staff at the Tapas Bar were completely taken by surprise at the news that the Tapas 9 had children, as they hadn’t actually seen any of them with any children at any time - I think this was in the News of the World, but I read most of the papers online on Sunday. I myself was completely taken aback by this latest twist as how can you holiday with your family yet no one know that you have a family??
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:07 am
98 Mark
Team McCann just haven’t released the daily snippet yet….
- new sighting
- new witness
- new expert
- new medium
- new allegation
- new inuendo
- new outrage
- new sufferening
- new team member
- new supporter
- new whatever…..
We’ll just have to wait and see what’s on the media calendar for today….
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:07 am
And Sweden changed from left hand drive to right hand drive in 1967!
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:04 am
93. And it is actually worse than just all those covering their backsides, it is also all those who have hoped to profit by being seen as ‘caring’ and ’supportive’. We have had big boys from every sphere:
White House
Gordon Brown
Branson
Double glazing boy (name?)
JK Rowling
David Beckham
Other football teams wearing their Maddie t-shirts
Ben Afflick stalling release of his movie
Prince Charles (although not directly)
Psychics galore
The world of pop-stars has yet to fully jump on board.
What will we have next ‘Maddie-Aid’?
It really is sickening. And I know that there are many out there who will disagree, but I still think that Madeleine’s parents have a hell of a lot to answer for by continuing to live off their ‘victim’ status. Lead by example. Help find your daughter. Start by answering those questions.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:03 am
Well said Col,if you dont like British TRS,why not fek off.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 am
Must be a slow news day if people are deciding to take a swipe at an entire nation because of their preference on weights and measures.