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 12:09 pm
114 batman
Within a few days of the McCanns returning to the UK, there was a lot of talk of the PJ submitting a host of questions for them to answer via the UK police. I read nothing to say there was any technical reason why this could not have occurred. So why didn’t the PJ do this? Don’t you remember, it looked like happening pretty quickly, if what I read was anything to go by. Some PJ were even posited as to be already on their way with the list or something close to that.
Instead, we got the Judge saying there was nothing new that would warrant the posing of further questions. Why didn’t he say ‘there are still some unanswered questions’ and submit the list to the UK police? Don’t you think a fair interpretation of that would be that the questions they wanted answered had been?
Where is there an OFFICIAL list of unanswered questions - and I don’t mean another of those mysterious leaks to the Portuguese press from ’sources’?
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
brandonflours Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
wheres lorraine and fiona gone?
385
I wonder what the parents will say in a few years to the twins?!!!!
Can you imagine the anger and resentment these teenage kids will harbour
once they get over their childhood mother deprivation problems?
David Platt/The Beales
God help them!
393
SSS Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
383
I really think that you lose any validity when you start comparing this REAL LIFE case of a missing child with Soap Opera’s!
395
brandonflours Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
well they portray it like a soap opera
why not?
403
SSS Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
393
They are also suspected of killing their daughter, are you going to be doing that next?
413
brandonflours Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
401
I dont see the connection?
416
SSS Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
411
The connection is:
You say you will compare it to a soap opera because THEY have portrayed it as one. If you are so intent on following in their footsteps, I, along with many others on here I am sure, live in daily expectation of seeing you splashed all over the media on suspicion of murdering your child.
418
brandonflours Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
414
thats plain daft
And then your little comment was made the next day !
The words pot and black spring to mind
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Gordon Smith, Presenter Of Most Haunted
Load of Bollox, he was a guest psychic for one season about 2 years ago after the Derek Acorah Scandal when Derek made up fake ghosts and was sacked. They subsequently dropped Gordon Smith after one season.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:05 pm
151
This applies to the US - law is different in other countries.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
148
I was using that post as an immediate example, NOT saying you had mocked Moderation, or abused her via her blog.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:03 pm
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firestar Says:
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:33 am
well at least we know the devout catholic bit is rubbish.
“catholics and spiritualism eh.
no wonder the pope took all the maddy stuff off the vatican web site.”
As a matter of fact, historically, Catholics have been very interested, and in some cases fully accepted, spiritualism. And I mean those at the top, not just some of the rank and file.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
i had no idea that the catholic priesthood were still allowed to cover up murders, child abuse etc. but if gerry and kate both went to the priest, he has to tell what was said during the confession as it is no longer secret…
http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/clergypriest-privilege.html
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
149 judith c
well if you know that tell us how she died then?
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:59 am
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Cannie Says:
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:06 am
why don’t the pychics ever post on Anorak (real pychics!!) then it would be interesting as things unfold, its easy to say “I knew that” after it happens.
I think you mean psychics? But yes, I have said twice I think the child will be found in a dam, near a wall near Huelva Spain. I am trying to get the name of the dam. I posted this first on (73) on 29th September.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:58 am
142 SSS
excuse me I was using a word that Will had used in reference to himself. I have always supported Moderation. A think there are a zillion examples on this forum of people insulting one another, I was making light of Will’s initial comments.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:58 am
140 Col
I was unaware of this whole “Vatican” thing.
Question for any Catholics out there : If the priest tells his Monseigneur (sp) or whoever, then isn’t he breaking the sanctity of the confessional or something similar?
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 am
I fear that they might just get away with it.
My hope is that the PJ will be receiving international help from
others disgusted with the British elite and their lack of parenting skills.
Does anyone know if Strongwood are still working on the case because they
\were using psychics?
And despite the sabotage etc that they can put their facts on the table.
Gordon Brown seen walking around Soho looking for a job.
Clarence Mitchell polishing shoes in Bulgaria.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 am
124 sunny
Your mention of the guildford 4 as an example is just the type of ‘clutching at straws’ that is now being undertaken by the McCanns. Do you work for them?
It is ok to refute an argument with an alternative possibility but I’m afraid that you cant do the same when you have a multitude of contradictions. Explaining away (lets say) ten theories or pieces of evidence with a remotely possible explanation just wont wash. The more the circumstancial evidence, the bigger the hole to dig yourself out of. And the less likely you’ll succeed.
Unless you’re a celebrity with big money of course. People tend to go blind and invent all sorts of excuses for you.
You should therefore be more concerned that your ‘miscarriage of justice’ doesnt actually lead to an acquittal of potential child killers and not the other way round.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 am
138,
Willy relax you really need to destress today.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 am
137
Barndoflours, that remark was tongue in cheek, you weren’t on the forums at the time, and the day before you had been saying that you were going to descend to the level of the Mccanns if you remember?
Please report the WHOLE story next time dear
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
135 Moderation
Anytime. This whole “bully and thug” mentality makes my blood boil!
You would hope that AT THE LEAST, people might feel ashamed of themselves but judging by the post at 134, it is just so much water off a duck’s back.
Strange how brave people are when hidden by a computer screen, when you consider we live in a sociey where old people are attacked in BROAD DAYLIGHT and yet, no one goes to help.
Obviously the bravest of society are all on the Anorak forum at these times
BTW, being an avid reader of ABSOLUTELY everything, from Georgette Heyer to Jennifer Cruisie to Sam Browne, am I likely to have read anything by you (what is your nom de plume anyway?)
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
134 Sunny
There hasn’t been a trial yet! Bit premature to talk about miscarriages of justice, isn’t it?
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:52 am
SSS what we do know about the priest is that he was called in by his Bishop Cardinal or whatever the head honcho anyway for that diocese,I cant say about the Vatican interview,although I have heard it suggested.What is certain is that after the priest was interviewed by his superiors,Madeleines sites or boards where withdrawn by order of the Vatican,make of it what you will,another strange twist in an unending maze.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:51 am
133 - SSS. I agree with you regarding personal remarks, they are completely unnecessary - but I would look at the emotions generated from a positive point of view. The majority of people on here CARE! They want to find Madeleine. There is more passion (irrespective of from which ‘camp’) on this forum than I have ever seen or heard from the McCann parents themselves.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:51 am
127 Sunny
I am far from grouchy. CV? No don’t like them, not a big car buff. Applying for jobs? If only, afraid I am turning work down at the moment. I would love to discuss my work with you, but quite frankly your obvious lack of basic comprehension would make the excercise a total waste of my time.
What is your greatest achievement? Nearly completing the Bella wordsearch in a fortnight?
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:50 am
130
Very funny since you did the same to me on this site last
week
SSS Says:
September 28th, 2007 at 11:01 am
39
And if I might say something extremely stupid A La Brandoflours, in The Fugitive they weren’t much good either, so that MUST mean that they are rubbish, because it took Tommy Lee Jones MONTHS to find Harrison Ford, and even then, Harrison gave himself up
Yes you are so lovelly
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:50 am
Looking through all the stuff again something strikes me as a mother.
I am not overtly camera conscious. I don’t take snap shots all the time, but
I have a lot of photos of my kids.
Someone mentioned we never see any footage of Madeleine talking or with other kids.
Actually if we have seen more than 20 pictures of her, that is a lot.
I mean surely if you claim she was abducted you want to make sure her abducter knows all about her in the hopes they will hand her in.
Show her as a toddler, taking her first steps.
Why on earth are there so many pictures of Kate (whom we all know where she is) and so few of Madeleine who is missing?
I know we all keep repeating stuff but I have to repeat that their constant slander of the Portuguese Police is a joke.
They did not leave Madeleine unattended.
Kate and Gerry did.
But the numb British public who read the tabloids keep salivating every time a bell rings.
Brainwashed beyond redemption.
And the circus continues.
We just need to shine a light on the ringmaster.
Then the tent will come down.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:49 am
133 Thanks SSS. That’s what its all about.. we can have differing opinions and still be ‘human’ about it. IMO. Same goes for Firestar…. ta.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:48 am
129,
my point turd popper is that there are many miscarriages of justice. Like in the case of the Guilford 4 where the police were pressured into making arrests and 4 innocent people ended up in jail for a very long time.
Lets face it Will you have no idea if the McCanns really are guilty of killing Madeleine.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 am
128 Moderation
This is what I am talking about.
I can’t say that I have ANYTHING in common with Moderation, although I don’t know her, but I can’t understand why people would be so nasty and COWARDLY as to do this to her.
You may not agree with her, but do you have to abuse her?
Proud to be British? I have never been so ashamed in my life.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:43 am
will 123 this is the latest i can get
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09222007/news/worldnews/maddie_cremate_questions.htm
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:43 am
124 Get with the programme Sunny, how can convicting the guilty be a miscarrage of justice?
The Cadaver dogs have barked (allegedly), what more proof do you require.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:42 am
I watched a film last night on FilmFour called Mean Girl about a clique of girls in high school, who were the “in” group and how they mocked the people around them and because what they did was copied, they could “turn” people against each other. They had a book called the “Burn Book” which they stick pictures of people they didn’t like in, and write things about them eg/. one teacher who said she was going to “push” the girl to do well in maths was stigmatised as a drug pusher and there was a police investigation in to this “allegation”.
It was a very interesting insight into human nature, and in some parts amusing, but it reminded me of some people in this forum, in the way that they are quick to attack and mock others for no reason, and encourage others to do the same and all because everyone thinks that there viewpoint, or opinion is more important than others.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:42 am
126
Also meant to say - Once again your post beggars the question (as do all your posts) ‘what’s your point?
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:42 am
Morning everyone. Just passing through to let you know I haven’t been chased off by the cyber bullies! I will be out for the rest of the day though.
Took a while to delete the abusive messages that y’all tried to post on my blog. Only one made it through, the rest were blocked.
Gee so mature!
Another slow news day…..