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 12:39 pm
182 judith c
but your location only follows the news reports doesnt it…….?
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:37 pm
180 sunny.
You’re a blind apologist. Strange though how you talk sense about the theories.
You missed out the most logical and likely though. MURDER……
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:37 pm
180. sunny…I am with you 100%
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm
On reflection, I take back that last post!
A popular conspiracy theory is that the Mccann’s spend at LEAST a portion of each day trawling through all these posts, so next week, we might learn that Sean and Amelie were hiding on the garage roof with a gun stolen from the local drug dealer and had KM in the sights!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Oh - Hi, Anorak. So nice to meet the fans.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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m.e. Says:
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
(149) judith C
well if you know that tell us how she died then?
I didn’t say I ‘knew’ where she would be found, I said I “think” it - on the basis of something which could be called psychic — or not. There is more ‘twixt heaven and earth than meets the eye’ If I knew how she died I would, of course, have made this public (or have already been arrested — perhaps I was the disgruntled maid?? despite not having been to Portugal for 20 years)! If I can discover - by esoteric means - what the name of the dam is (or might be) I will.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:30 pm
addition to the role players
Gordon smith / side kick
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:30 pm
145,
I am not in a hole so no need for me to dig. Also aren’t you getting a bit bored of constantly ranting on how people that think the McCanns are innocent are being paid to do so. There would not be nearly enough money in their fund to pay off the 1000’s who think they are innocent. There are people you believe that they did not kill their child so get over it.
I don’t get which contradictions you people keep harping on about. The distance of the Tapas bar, the timeline? I haven’t read any MASSIVE contradictions but had read a while back that one of the PJ said if you have 9 people observing an event you will have 9 slightly different interpretations. Which sounds pretty logical to me so if in fact there are slight contradicitons it may have to do with the fact that 9 people were dining on the night in question.
Circumstancial evidence is not enough to charge someone with killing their daughter. You need hard facts. Which neither you are I can provide.
1) Madeleine dying of sedation makes no sense with the timeline or even the scent of death by the dogs (2-4 hours is needed for the smell). She left the creche at 6:30 and lets just say for sake of argument she feel asleep by 7:30 (which I doubt). Even if she died it would not have been discovered instantly, when the hell would there be time to dispose of a body and then organise and think through a cover up. If they hid a body, its funny that sniffer dogs the next day did not pick it up. Wow the McCanns were in a foreign country yet somehow in the last minute they found the most obscure and perfect hiding place.
2) If Madleine was beaten by Kate out of rage, sorry this does not wash at all. There is no record or history of physical abuse in the family. Friends and family would have known if there was a history of abuse and I am sure alarms would have gone off ages ago. Plus someone at the resort would have heard the cries, the old lady above heard nothing.
3) Death by a fall down the stairs makes no sense. Gerry says he checked at 9:05, no sign of Madeleine down the stairs, no hysteria and he even bumps into an aquaintance near the apartment appearing very calm. When would Madeleine accoring to the police have fallen down the stairs? I am sure a parents first reaction would be to scream out for help because you would not know for sure that your child was dead. Your first reaction would NOT be “oh my God she is dead and I better cover it up”.
Just because you don’t like the McCanns or the campaign to help find Madeleine does not mean they are guilty. Your personal feelings for this couple don’t matter. What matters is that the PJ did not do a good thorough job from the start. And this is not disputable. What matters is that the head of the investigation has been charged with corruption charges for a previous missing child’s case. And that is a fact. Why the hell is this guy even still working???? What matters is that this has become a media war because of the archaic secrecy laws that don’t seem to protect the victim at all.
Better go I’ve got work to do.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:29 pm
177 Will
How do I answer that….?
I would be as “unfit” as everyone else.
If you see what I mean….
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Perhaps, if there is a trial, the Mccanns can watch re-runs of soap operas to help them decide how best to plan a defence strategy.
After all, Coronation Street characters seem to be giving some posters much inspiration for predicting how the twins will turn out later.!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:27 pm
175 Anonymous the 1st
Would you say you were fit to sit on the jury?
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
BTW - another suggestion for those here working for the McCanns - I know it’s a drag to work outside office hours, but some people might get a bit suspicious that there’s so much more support for the saintly couple from 9 to 5, than at other times.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
167 I think they’d have a difficult time finding a objective jury given the media circus. Just like the OJ nonsense.
But don’t believe in the jury system anyway… preffer “experts” to “amateurs” deciding the fate of people’s lives.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Piers - steady on!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
168
I did NOT mean that it is ok to be nasty if the person is not on the forum at all, again you are showing how silly you can be.
POST 170 ABOVE shows how silly you can be Brandoflours, because the similarities you are trying to draw are between a FICTIONAL scenario and a REAL LIFE one.
You can hardly say that you expect the Mccann twins to have the same life experiences as a soap character?
Or maybe, in your head, you do!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
167 - Not only fit for jury service, but fit to try the case as the sole arbiter of fact and law.
I have not been swayed by the barking cadaver dogs, and the other tabloid rumours, allegedlyfrom PJ sources. Oh no. More than happy to listen to the evidence, if there is any.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:23 pm
David - must agree with you about this awful new phenomenon of people not believing what they see in British newspapers.
..And for those of you here with connections to the McCanns, I know some people who can provide photographs to prove just about anything.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:22 pm
422
SSS Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
411
And please do not even try to say that I am Pro-Mccann - I am simply pro common-sense.
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Brandonflours Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
422
I was showing an example of children who discover later in life the past, and how the people who should love and protect them, didnt.
What it can do to their personality.
I am not sure why that then transpires into me murdering my child?
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:21 pm
157 Stig. You are right to ask - what happened to the Portugese guys who were going to come over to put the questions to the McCanns in the UK. I don’t know. The last I heard was that the PJ were going to do this via the British police. So until I hear that a statement to the contrary - I believe that questions remain unanswered by the McCanns.
At one stage it was suggested that the McCanns themselves requested arguido status so they would not have to answer any questions they didn’t want to.
You are right, the judge has said that because there has been no new evidence that the McCanns would not be asked any further questions. But I think the word ‘further’ is salient. To my knowledge they have yet to answer the original ones. But of course I was not in the interview room so I cannot know anything as fact.
But I think you are missing my point. I am a parent. If I thought (really really really though one of my children had been abducted) I would be doing absolutely EVERYTHING humanly possible to help the police - either here or in Portugal. I would not be leaking stuff to the media which potentially could mean that my daughter’s killer would not be brought to justice.
Different opinion. Thats all.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:21 pm
162
I did it was the first comment
My point was about the twins and their mental health in years to come.
I think its absolutely ludicrous for you to imply that my casual mentioning of a soap is tantamount to me killing my daughter.
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SSS Says:
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 am
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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?
So being nastys ok if the posters not on at the time then?
I see !
Did you get that Sunny ?
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I would like to ask a hypothetical question here.
We know that under Portugese law there will not be a trial by jury, assuming there is a trial, for anyone (McCanns, Murat or anyone else). However if there was (hypotheticaly) a trial by jury, involving anyone, who here feels that they would be fit to serve on the jury?
I for one would have to say I am not fit due to preconceived ideas and predjuces.
This is a serious question due to highlight real ‘fairness’ and search for justice as opposed to paying lip service to it.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
how do you make up a fake ghost, just wondered.
when was the last time gerry’s blog was updated ?
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:18 pm
121. I checked out the psychic…he is a sick f–k
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Whoops, forgive my French - Sieg Heil!
Actually this case reminds me of the Great Man’s diaries. How could anyone doubt their authenticity? I mean, they were printed in a British newspaper!!!
Furthermore, the mother and daughter in this case are blonde.
Case closed!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:16 pm
just a side issue…
Used to love watching snippets of ‘most haunted’ because it was so predictably bad. Did you notice that as nothing could be SEEN (arguably because nothing was there) they made great stock in always using ALL the other senses to create the big scam….
Its a shame that a serious issue can get ridiculed for the sake of entertainment.
Which neatly bring us back to…
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:13 pm
156
Actually you are WRONG
After that last post, when you said it was daft, I told you to use your commonsense, as saying that you would do as they did, was daft.
THEN I made the comment the next day, tongue in cheek, about you, as you had been being daft the day before saying that you would descend to their level.
I am not sure if anyone can see the connection, but clearly, if you are going to copy the Mccanns by making this whole thing into a soap opera, or comparing it to one, then you may feel inclined to copy them by “doing away” with one of your own children.
You then went on to say that the whole reason for bringing up the Beales and the Platts was to show that these things do happen.
The Beales and Platts are part of a fantasy world
Why don’t you put ALL the posts relating to this on here, including the one where you say that about the Beales and the Platts?
You were being silly Brandoflours, I am sure that if not openly, then secretly you can see that.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:11 pm
116 sss
Thank you!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:11 pm
I SOOOOOOO agree with you GOOD guys - Moderation, SS and others.
We can have differing opinions and still be human about it!
Zieg Heil!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:10 pm
113 sunny
Blush.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:09 pm
SSS as I understand it as told to me by a priest nothing to do with this case I hasten to add,the Pope is God’s vicar here on earth and is infallible under any circumstances,as he takes his instructions directly from God and passes them down the chain.It stands to reason that if there was a Papal Bull issued by the Pope compelling the priest to tell all he knew,he would have to comply,failure to do so is excuminication,thats the theory anyway as I understand it,and I am a Protestant,so fire away my knowledge is not the best PS I have a drink with the priest now and then,a really nice man.