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 1:08 pm
If the psychic barber cuts hair whilst doing his readings, does that mean they want him to hold the hair the pjs have of madelienes?
Or is Kate after a new cut?
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:06 pm
169 batman
“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.”
They are reported to have answered 22 questions in 15 or so hours of questioning in Kates case.
I think if you KNEW you were innocent and the police were doing nothing but push the line that YOU were guilty - you would not cooperate with them. Here is some rope sir, could you please tie a hangmans noose in the end of it for us please.
Me, I’d fight the buggers with everything I had.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Yes come on you lot, let’s stick to the subject.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:04 pm
This is largely a repost of something I posted over the weekend, it puts some other remarks I may make into ‘context’. The only known fact in this case is that a young girl is missing. The parents and their friends allege she was abducted and if the press leaks are to be believed the police believe she is dead, there never was an abduction and the parents are complicit in her disappearance. That said, the only fact in all of this is that a young girl is missing.
Much has been made of the lack of emotion shown by the McCann’s throughout their ‘ordeal’. To some this is proof positive that they are as guilty as hell. My own view has always been that some combination of their medical training, the need for professional detachment, and suppressed/delayed guilt about leaving their children alone that night might just be enough to explain the apparent lack of public emotion. Assuming the parents are totally innocent of any wrongdoing in this case (leaving aside for the moment the debate about them leaving the children alone in the first place), if you earnestly cling to the belief that your daughter will be found alive it’s short logical leap to hope and pray that the decision to leave them alone won’t be the last contribution you make to your daughters wellbeing. It’s a dreadfully Catholic thing too, to hope and pray against the odds for such miracles.
As a parent of two young children myself I simply do not want to believe that Madeleine’s parents were in any way complicit in whatever may have happened to her. (Accepting the debate about them leaving the children alone on that night.) I know there have been occasions where, with hindsight, I have admonished my young son in somewhat sterner tones than was possibly entirely necessary. There have been occasions too where I have had to leave the room/house for fear that my temper was about to spill over and yes there have been very rare occurrences where I have forcibly had to restrain my son – ever seen a three year old in full temper tantrum mode when the hands and feet are going like pistons – and later worried that I had used too much force. How easy might it have been for something like that to have resulted in an ‘accident’? No, I don’t want to believe the accident theory, probably for very well understood psychological reasons that others are better qualified to explain and doubtless in a more articulate way than I ever could.
And yet, something doesn’t ring true. I have no evidence upon which to base this feeling. It’s just an intuitive gut feeling that all is not as people would have us believe. Then last night it struck me why, I heard a lovely quote recently, “Without passion there is no life.”
The McCann’s have failed to show any passion, particularly for Madeleine, throughout. As I said above, I can possibly accept it while they were not suspects and the abduction theory appeared, publicly at least, to be the only show in town. But here I am four months on, and 100% innocent of any involvement in my beloved daughters disappearance (save the debate about leaving her alone in the first place) and now I find my wife and I as the main suspects in her disappearance by an inept police force that have clearly lost the plot. If indeed they ever had it. I’m completely innocent, some low life(s) have/had my daughter, she may be alive and suffering, she may have suffered and died, who knows? No one is now looking for either my beloved daughter or the perpetrators of this terrible crime.
I don’t know about anyone else, but given the fact that I KNOW my wife and I are completely innocent I would be absolutely incandescent with rage. Not for any injustice against myself or my wife, but because my daughter is no longer the centre of the investigation. Once I had removed myself and remaining family from Portuguese territory I would have held a very public press conference, no PR people, just myself and my wife and I’d have called the Portuguese authorities bluff – remember, I KNOW they are bluffing because I KNOW I/we are completely innocent. I’d have gone public on everything I knew and then challenged them to lock me up anyway. I’d happily draw attention to the case by rotting away in a Portuguese jail (the rest of the family/Team McCann would still be on the outside campaigning against this madness) if only to expose the nonsense the police were spouting and then hiding behind their own secrecy laws.
But the McCann’s haven’t done anything remotely like this? Why not? Surely the time to have done this was in that statement Gerry gave upon landing at East Midlands Airport? If not, why the whole travelling via EasyJet thing? Why not slip back quietly on the private jet that had been made available to them?
Something(s) about this case just don’t ring true, the McCann’s and/or their friends in some part hold the key to unlocking this mystery but I fear we may never know the real truth of what happened to Madeleine. The police on the other hand are possibly incompetent buffoons barking up entirely the wrong tree, or are clueless as to what really happened and are just looking for someone(s) to blame so they can kill the case off (but in either of these scenarios, why the lack of passionate reaction from the McCann’s personally?) or, the police KNOW roughly what happened but in the absence of solid evidence to charge someone(s) they are baiting/bluffing the perpetrators in the hope that someone(s) will crack?
Just my opinions. I can’t prove anything I say.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Miss Marple,
if in fact they did say that and I think you are speculating now, don’t you think it could have been for strategic reasons on the PJ’s part. If they PJ say murder they probably hoped that it might scare two parents who they beleive accidentally killed their child into a confession. And it clearly did not work.
This is precisely my point about their claim of accidental killing. The PJ know there is no history of abuse or criminal activity in the family. In fact all their working colleagues and employers speak highly of them and their characters. The PJ know there would be no motive for murder.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:03 pm
194 The Real Stig
Thanks for that. Wondered why it fell out of the news.
Had the labrador been sedated?
196 m.e.
I don’t think stig is a blind apologist, unlike many on here. I also think he is wrong however he does put forward arguments that are logical and not emotional outbursts, he also does take the time and effort to answer the question put to him rather than bleating the latest McCann mantra.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:02 pm
RE. sedatives:
Son’s call over covert medication
“It’s very very convenient for staff at care homes to conceal drugs in the food and drink of residents, not for therapeutic problems but to make the residents easier to manage.
Medication is sometimes crushed or combined with food.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7023097.stm
Did any of the Tapas 9 work with the elderly? Wasn’t there an elderly lady present for dinner? Was she sedated?
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:02 pm
192 Andy
I agree with you. With the number of posts on the forum each day, I wish people would stick more to point of it all and leave the bickering and butt kissing behind. It would certainly make this more interesting to read.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
In Portugal, visiting cadaver dogs are known as the hounds of truth - widely regarded as even more reliable than the PJ.
They have barked - case over.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
201
In Portugal every thing is written down and translated, not just taped. An interview by PJ would take a lot longer than a British one.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
196
People like me? You mean people who choose to exercise common sense instead of baying for some one’s blood? Or do you mean people, who if they ever found themselves under suspicion for something wouldn’t like to think that there would be a mob crying out for them to hang? Or do mean people who, although they know the Mccann’s did wrong by neglecting their children, just wish to know the TRUTH about what happened that night? Perhaps you mean people who believe in JUSTICE rather than vigilantism?
Just what do you mean by people like me? I am no Mccann fan at all, but I don’t think vigilante red suits my complexion either!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:56 pm
201 -Sunny
Read post carefully. “The McCanns did not answer ALL QUESTIONS.”
Those were the words of Pinto de Abreu lawyer of the McCanns this morning. Nobody suggested that they did not answer ANY QUESTIONS.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
190 Sunny:
You’re quite wrong about the PJ not considering murder.
After the long interviews a month ago, when the PJ are alleged to have told the McCanns, in effect: “We know Madeleine died in the apartment - make it easy for yourselves and tell us where the body is”, and the McCanns chose (for whatever reason) not to go down that route, a PJ spokesman specifically referred to the possibility of a murder charge (the implied logic being: if, knowing we know what we know, they refuse to say where the body is, then one reason for not cooperating and receiving a light sentence - for Kate, and perhaps nothing for Gerry - would be if the body revealed something that would lead to a far longer sentence).
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
195
I don’t love you Stig (no offence).
By the way if you were guilty you’d could explain all their actions in the same way.
The fact remains….the probability remains very very high that they did it based on stats about child disappearances…and the McCanns have failed despite a MASSIVE media/PR campaign to show any proof of an abduction…. hence the vast majority of people consider them guilty.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
200
whats their motive sherlock?
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:52 pm
I am fascinated by all your posts. Not a lot of you mention psychics. A psychic detective Dutchman Gerard Croiset (1909-1980) done a lot of work for the police in the Netherlands successfully.
It can’t hurt to call in a team of psychics and take them to the apartment in Portugal. What do you have to loose?
My partner and I were on hols in Tenerife two years ago. Our daughter was 2 years at that time. We had taken turns looking after her when she was a sleep at night. I was eventually quite happy sitting on the balcony reading a book while her dad was watching a show. She did not feel that well. Had a cold. I was not too worried but checked her regularly as it was only a few steps away from the balcony. Her fever started to rise rapidly and her breathing was abnormal. I phoned my partner on his mobile and he came up. We had reception calling a doctor. Only 10 minutes later we found ourselves in an ambulance with daughter having serious breathing problems and ending up for hours on a ventilator in hospital.
This all happened in only under an hour time!! But we were responsible parents and one of us was with her all the time. I even would have feared if we would be down stairs in the pool bar she might have woken up and would fall over the balcony by looking for us. Or being abducted while walking around alone in the corridors of the hotel. First thing we did entering the room at day 1 was removing seats of the balcony inside the room! She never would climb on to them.
It is to me totally not understandable why parents would leave such a young kids on their own. I already freak at the thought of doing it to my own 4 year old!
If I had three kids and one would have been missing. I would have taken the twins in my arms and run out screaming for help. I would not run back to the Tapas bar and raise alarm leaving the twins alone. No way I would leave the others there!! My mother instinct would tell something is really really wrong…
Than the sedative thing… I am not a doctor, but understand well enough that medication and young kids don’t always agree. Sensitivity, allergy etc.. I don’t give my daughter anything unless it is prescribed and when she is on medication I STAY WITH her all the time! Just in case.
I would have feared with a sedative a child would wake up and would wobble along and fall… I have been on Oxemaepzam for a while and it feels like being drunk. I mistepped a few times on this stuff while waking up and have to go to the bathroom.
Has it been proven that Madeleine was under influence of anything? Did her parents admitted to that??? Has it been proven OB’s daughter and the twins had anything in their blood?
I assume the parents have not killed her. I hope they they have not.
Another question I have is: How many days have the parents been leaving the kids alone? If it was one evening on the last day, I would not agree or do it myself, but can understand that they found it safe. But if you have done this for many days, I think the risk that something happens is very high.
My main worry is ‘where is this beautiful little girl’. What must she have been - or is she going through. I am worried sick for her sake and also feel so sorry for her brother and sister. How will this effect their future?
It is a sad story. Hopefully there will be a conclusion soon.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:52 pm
198,
if she did not answer any questions then what precisely were they doing in the interrogation room for over 15 hours over two days.
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Mods and Admin
why not ask either Mrs McCann or the PJ, or to be fair, both
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:50 pm
190 sunny
dont care what the pj ’say’, the accident theory is NOT plausible, murder is.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm
131 harry hind sight
“The Cadaver dogs have barked (allegedly), what more proof do you require.”
That should be - ‘what more woof do you require?’
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm
157 - the real stig
I think you are suggesting that McCanns answered all questions posed by police?
The portuguese lawyer of the McCanns confirmed this morning to the Algarve radio station that Kate Mccann failed to answer all questions put by police.
That’s why they were made Arguidos. All the stuff about coming to the UK or asking those questions by means of letter is just speculation (not necessarily from the PJ but from newspapers).
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
131 harry hind sight
“The Cadaver dogs have barked (allegedly), what more proof do you require.”
That should be ‘what more woof do you require?’
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
188 the real stig
Another blind apologist….
189 SSS
Well if shes dead and the parents did it (big ifs to people like you) then murder or wilful homicide are the only logical theories. Accident theory can be shot through with holes galore……
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
188.
again I love you Stig.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
123 will
I read that the PJ searched his place and found nothing. I think he said a British couple did come to him with a black plastic bag and asked him to burn it. The bag had a dead black Labrador in it, I believe, and it wasn’t the McCanns.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:44 pm
m.e. Says:
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:39 pm
182 judith c
but your location only follows the news reports doesnt it…….?
No, because they have never mentioned a dam, nor water in connection with Huelva.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Scanning the posts this morning I see that the descent of this forum into lunacy is continuing.
Serious posts asking questions are quickly buried amidst the name-calling and back biting and bruised egos.
I realise that the Mods have other things to do but surely any post that doesn’t contribute to a discussion of the case or the daily papers should be removed unless the site is more interested in “hits” than promoting discussion?
And what is it with some posters need to be liked? I couldn’t give a toss if anyone on here likes me or not. You don’t know who I am and I don’t know who you are, nor do I care. It appears to me that to some it is not important what they say but how many people agree with what they say.
This is a public forum for the discussion of and disemination of the Madeleine McCann case, the way I see it working is you post your theory, idea or opinion (of the case) and others read it then discuss it and offer alternative theories, ideas or opinions.
IMO of course.
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No, we are not interested in just ‘hits’ ,agreed there are several posts on here which should be flushed away, but in the interests of ‘Free Speech’ they are left.
Hopefully all posters are ‘Pro Madeleine’ and for Justice too.
BUT until the ’scales of justice’ are balanced and truth is found,who are we to say who is right or wrong?
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Anorak - or June or another Admin:
One of you posted a few days ago that you’d identified one visitor here who’d been paid to contribute (and that they were booted).
I’ve been trying to work out how you knew they were paid (you said you didn’t know who paid them, so I guess it wasn’t just a suspicious IP address).
Maybe like GCHQ, you can’t reveal your methods, but maybe you could give a hint?
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:42 pm
186,
there is no motivation for murder. I did not mention murder because the PJ have always suggested accidental killing, not murder. Again you don’t like what I am saying, doesn’t fit in with your thoughts so I am a blind apologist, how original.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
186
There is evidence of murder?
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:39 pm
What follows will be another example of why I think I tend to piss people off - I provide answers.
“And in any case they have money to follow the leads themselves but instead are more concerned about their own backs.”
Pretend for a moment you are them and you know you are innocent - how are you going to convince people to look for your daughter from behind bars when everyone then thinks you are guilty and there is no need to look? Surely you first fight anyone trying to accuse you so you can stay in a position - free - to continue the search for your daughter? Staying out of jail HAS to be your priority, unfortunately
They have been looking - they have orchestrated and maintained an unprecedented media campaign to ensure millions of pairs of eyes are on the lookout for Madeleine - the fact there have been so many sightings is proof it has been effective. That none of these sightings has come to nothing is not their fault.
They have hired Controlled Risks to carry out clandestine activities related to the search for Madeline - they did this weeks ago. Within a week of Madeline going missing they asked the public for suggestions and ideas of what could be done to help find her - the UK Police seem to have acted on at least one of those suggestions which was to ask people to submit their holiday photos so they could be looked at to see if any contained clues like people in the background watching the McCanns.
Have you ever thought they may have taken other measures which have to remain secret? I bet they have done that as well. I think they have spent about a third of the fund to date.
“If you were innocent you’d laugh off these accusations.”
Bollocks - to be innocent and accused of such things is no laughing matter.
“And if you were innocent you wouldnt have such accusations thrown at you in the first place.”
For Gods sake, are you real! Tell that to Lindy Chamberlain, the Guildford Four, Joanne Lees who missed out on being convicted of her boyfriends murder in Australia by the skin of her teeth and a stroke of incredible luck. This list could go on forever.