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 3:12 pm
Leave Maura alone. She’s just trying to help and bring some needed common sense to this site.
Maura, don’t mind them - just keep on posting and feeding donations into the McCann fund. You know it’s right.
After all if Branson supports us, if the great british establishment, politicians, media and church supports us - nothing can go wrong.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
In answer to why did the PJ’s call in the dogs when it seemed that everyone believed that Maddie was abducted? Although the PJ’s would have went down the abduction theory at the same time they would have been considering closer to home. It is routine police work to look at those closest to the victim/missing child. When my 13-year-old son went missing for two of the most frantic days and nights of my life (he went to school and then just didn’t come home). The British police when they first came to my home searched the whole place. They tell you that it is just in case the child is hiding but when I spoke to the policeman and said I knew why he was searching and to feel free to look where ever he chose as I wanted him to know he was not in the house and start looking for him, he explained that in all reported missing children the parental home is the first place they look for clues to what has happened. Two days went by and then it looked like it could be a third, but luck was in and we found him. It was not the police who found him, but my other son and partner. We never slept and we trawled the streets, and places that kids hung out, until we could piece enough information that would lead us to him.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
they cant do it for personal gain of course
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:11 pm
287
lets hope its not a global cover up of paedophiles in high places
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:10 pm
294 - Chloe
And no, you’re not psychic (assuming you’re not being sarcastic).
Nobody is psychic. If they/you are, go and claim James Randi’s $1M.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:09 pm
287 October 2nd, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Firestarter says
“somewhere, at the bottom of this will be sex, money or power.
it always is”.
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Blimey, heady stuff coming from an expert, no doubt, in all three.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:07 pm
324 - Very gullible…
Absolutely right. I shouldn’t allow myself to get sucked in and waste time replying. I should have said ‘yes..ok’
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Stephanie - that issue was discussed in previous anorak posters i think.
I read about it in the british press (the guardian I think) at the beginning of August. The possibility was investigated through interpol with the cooperation of swiss authorities but the reality is that no link was found (this is what I can remember - and I’m almost sure I read it in the guardian or the observer).
at that time as well, they qualified the paia de luz location in May, as the most unlikely of locations for a known paedophile to look for children. especially by jumping into someone else appartment not at all his modus operandum (which I think is latin for “his method of working”).
sorry can’t find any links but that’s all i can remember.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
325 - anonymous the 1st
Exactly! Maura is on a different plane to us all in here.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:05 pm
248 - slyfox
Look at the media still reporting on Diana. I mean…c’mon. The three died in that car because it hit concrete at 100mph+ and they weren’t wearing seatbelts. The one who was wearing one lived. But still a third of the UK think there was a conspiracy. Isn’t it sad that millions of people don’t have common sense?
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
314 Stevo Says:
“A detective team has to control the inquiry…since when did the public control missing child investigations?”
Never mind that… since when have the chief suspects???
“Show us the body!” and “Bring it on!” spring to mind…..
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Stevo - if I were you, I’d take up Mad Maura’s offer:
“If you can stand by with any form of conscience and allow a detective team such as this control the Madeleine enquiry then I have no more to say to you.”
- Just say ‘Yes’ - you know it makes sense.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Good article from the BELFAST TELEGRAPH
For Maura with love.
Morocco ’sighting’ a new low
Desperate as Gerry and Kate McCann’s plight may be, the media’s coverage of them continues to disturb.
As I’ve said before, there is no balance, no objectivity, just layer after layer of schmaltz, bias and spin.
But the treatment of the story about Madeleine being spotted in Morocco marked a new low.
Here was an ordinary, decent, hardworking family getting on with their own humble lives suddenly submerged in claim, speculation and, from the McCanns’ PR man, Clarence Mitchell, relentless spin.
In a climate where certain Press reports can be dismissed as ludicrous and lurid, this one - perhaps one of the most ludicrous of all - was flogged on the airwaves and in newspapers for all it was worth.
And it wasn’t worth a thing. Within a few hours journalists had identified the child and her bewildered family.
But in that short space of time the gulf between an affluent western lifestyle and the hand to mouth existence of north Africa was never more pointed.
Reports about the ” dramatic twist” in the story, were illustrated with a grainy image of the child and adults, and stuffed with the usual racist rhetoric. What could a fair-haired, western looking child be doing with a band of dusky-skinned vagrants?
Or, as one paper put it, on the back of a dark-skinned woman and in the clutches of a group of Moroccans carrying their worldly possessions along a dusty road?
In fact, among the Berber people blonde hair and even red hair is by no means uncommon. The idea that a blonde girl must have been abducted into that society is, I’m afraid, a legacy of some very old and very distasteful stereotypes.
“It sent shivers down my spine,” said Spaniard Clara Torres who took the photo. “Either it’s her or she has got a twin.”
Alas, their brief spell in the limelight also sent shivers down the spines of the Moroccan family, who apparently feared their much loved daughter was going to be taken from them.
What the photograph illustrated was a family that wouldn’t even cross the road without having their youngest child strapped to their back.
Here was a child being carried safely in the clutches of her own mother.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Does anyone here believe that the man who killed Ylenia Lenhard could be responsible for Madeleine?? I don’t recall his name..
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
306 Chloe
just rooms for now..
McCann home. About a year ago. Lounge (i think). Stand at the very back of the room facing the window. Describe as best you can the shape of the room itself and any doors that lead off and where they go. Tell me if the decor is cluttered or sparse.
Gotta go myself for a while.
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
294 - Chloe
That doesn’t mean a dog is psychic. It might mean good ears or sense of time but it doesn’t mean psychic.
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
298 - brandonflours
Interesting about the Insureandgo policy. I’d have thought £110,000 was ample coverage. Normal mortals wouldn’t need over a million…but then they’re not the McCanns are they?
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
that psyKO is just that sick, and his vocab suggests that he is american, diapers and garbage, just someone having a go at pulling your ego
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:57 pm
but i never thought that dirty nappies would be linked to dna and bodily fluids
My money was on control freak Gerry
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:57 pm
291
What do they have in common?
They’re all c*nts?
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:56 pm
312 - brandonflours
I know but all the things the psychic wrote are things me and a lot of others have always thought. I was never sucked in by the saintly McCann bandwagon.
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:54 pm
310 - Maura
I’ve always backed up my comments or given links. Whenever I asked you to supply links or sources you never did. You just gave opinions or prejudiced ideas.
A detective team has to control the inquiry…since when did the public control missing child investigations?
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:54 pm
311
not anymore eh?lol
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:53 pm
but the dirty nappies , womens stuff, steps, accidental death, Kate did it,
another man who disposes of body.
In July !!!!
when they were practially saints
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:52 pm
307 - brandonflours
that link says there’s no swingers in Leicester…
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Stevo please enlighten me to one incidence where I have been vindictive on this site I have on occasion taken you to task for your poor research and wild off the cuff speculations if you are uncomfortable with this then I suggest that you do your homework first.
If you can stand by with any form of conscience and allow a detective team such as this control the Madeleine enquiry then I have no more to say to you.
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:49 pm
300 - brandonflours
“6:00 pm Mummy sticks prickly things in my arm.”
Yes…I know.
It doesn’t mean the ‘psychic’ knew anything. It’s just a coincidence. If you write enough guesses, there’ll be plenty of hits and people will believe you.
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
If it was planned murder: why go to Portugal with friends and not somewhere more remote and without the gruop of friends (who don’t seem to kill children)?
If it was an accident or Kate’s moment of madness: how could they manage to hide the body, and most importantly, go out for dinner with their friends, participate in a quiz and put up a convincing show while socialising just a few hours after Madeleine died?
ABOVE ALL… if they were somehow involved and know that it was not an abduction, why would they want to start a big fund and advertising campaign, possibly drawing increasing attention upon themselves?
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
293
http://www.uk-swingers.com/counties/leicester-swingers.php
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
302 - m.e. - got to pick a child up from school right now
tell me which house interior?
What am I looking for?
Present time or past?
A particular incident or just looking at rooms?
Time, date and destination - then yes!