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 4:04 pm
Stevo (388)
I agree with that. Perhaps Mods and Admin could do something about it. Plenty of names to be chosen from and I really don’t feel like being impersonated by a budding psychic. I imagine other people with the same problem feel the same.
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Mods and Admin
Chloe Spain, I don’t think you were being impersonated, it was just a random name.
However we are hoping to register all users , and that will stop it.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:03 pm
384 sunny
“Why would PJ ask interpol to investigate all witnesses if they know the parents killed her?”
Exactly because of that. The parents killed her so they know it cannot be MAdeleine. Therefore there are two explanations for sightings of Madeleine in Morocco:
a) innocent mistake by a tourist (which i think is probably the majority)
b) scams encouraged by someone
What interpol should be investigating is if it’s A or B.
Now, on a side note: Interpol does not have a police force as i understand it. Interpol gathers the police forces of all countries and facilitates the coordination of these forces. For example, in the case of the spanish lady that claimed that she was 100% sure it was Madeleine in Morocco, the interpol mechanism allows the PJ to ask spanish police to investigate the origin and intentions of these claims.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Jolly Hunk…
7-9:30 is 2 1/2 hours.
1. The dogs can sometimes pick up decomposition smells after 1 hour (sometimes it takes more than 2).
The body might have been kept in the apartment while the cover-up was planned and executed.
2. What exactly did Payne say - that he “was in the apartment at 7:30, when the kids were being ‘put down’ ” (funny how the McCanns so often use that term)?
This could mean very little. Did he actually SEE Madeleine? Did he see her moving?
3. Is there actually any solid evidence apart from the time/date-stamp on a digital photo, that Madeleine was actually alive on 3 May?
I’m not saying she wasn’t, but a time/datestamp says absolutely nothing. As with the beach bar CCTV, which the cafe owner said was probably a day out, this can be set and reset in a matter of seconds. I find it particularly suspicious that the timestamp says ‘1:29′. The kids’ club opens for the afternoon at 2:30, and the McCanns apparently thought there was a 1-hour time difference with England, ‘explaining’ the incorrect setting on the camera.
If they wanted to create a false timeline for 3 May, they might have taken the photo some time on 2 May (or any other day of the holiday), thinking it showed Madeleine and her sister ‘just before they went to the creche by the pool’ - but when in fact they should have been eating their ‘picnic lunch’.
4. The step-granny’s ’sedation theory’ is yet another bizarre development. What exactly is it supposed to pre-empt?
Traces of sedation in hair found in the apartment? I don’t think a drug would have time to get to the follicle in the very tight abduction timeframe into which Gerry has now been forced by his and others earlier statements.
Then what other association of toxicology and Madeleine’s DNA would be available to FSS AFTER a supposed abduction? Did the abductor use the McCann’s villa or car after 3 May?
Maybe that’s the next development….
I mean, the British media have been so extraordinarily supine that if I were Clarence Mitchell, I might even be tempted to see just how ‘ridiculous’ I’d have to be before any of the media started to actually think.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:02 pm
387,
Hence the decision now by the PJ to have Interpol interview all witnesses who claimed to have seen Madeleine in Morocco. Like I said why would they request this if they are 100% certain the McCanns killed their daughter. Another twist is about to happen.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Sunny - maybe to leave no stone unturned. The sightings could also lead to finding another missing child.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
384 - Sunny
Where did you read that? Do you have a link?
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 pm
366 - Stevo - If the McCanns are telling the truth, then I can’t fault them for using the media to bring publicity to their plight. By the same token, if the McCanns are telling the truth, it would have been churlish of J K Rowling, David Beckham or anyone else to not help whip up publicity for Madeleine. I can even forgive Richard Branson for bankrolling them (I thought the Portuguese police were idiots until I started to read sites like this one.) Quite why they have been so successful is another matter and I doubt if the McCann’s expected it, nor can I blame them for the extraordinary media success they have achieved. If my daughter had been abducted, I’d want as much publicity as possible and I’m selfish enough to take advantage of it, however unfair it is in the greater picture. All the above is forgiveable and understandable. Except that it now looks like they haven’t been telling the truth. Which makes the whole thing quite disgusting. But it wasn’t obvious they were lying until it was too late.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 pm
382 - Chloe
I suspected you weren’t the ‘real’ Chloe that has made some good postings in here. It’s weird but since the weekend, several good posters in here have been impersonated. I say good ones because the imposters are usually derisory and they never make good arguments or want to follow a line of discussion.
Can Mods and Admin look into tweaking the software so that names already attributed to an email address can’t be re-used? That would solve the problem once and for all.
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Mods and Admin
The view is that long term all posters will be registered and shall have to stick to one persona.
We don’t actually worry if one has several user names, we can easily check. But we do object to impersonation, but I think the other ‘Chloe’ has not been impersonating Chloe Spain, just a coincidence
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:59 pm
370 Firestarter, I fear that the little girl may have been abducted by a person or persons unknown - not as exciting as an overarching conspiracy of murder, fraud and intrigue involving FMs, PMs, billionaires etc etc, but there it is.
I guess that you all know what happened, as do the PJ, or so the leaks attributed to them say, so, no doubt you will able to tell me that I am wrong
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:58 pm
368 Anonymous the 1st
Thanks.
My point exactly - this has not been (since the beginning) the behaviour of parents that believe their daughter is being kept alive. Why would you put out information that could potentially damage your daughter or at least make life difficult for detectives? Surely you would wait for police to check it out before putting it out in all the newspapers.
I just read that Interpol has been asked by PJ to investigate all witnesses that claim they have seen Madeleine. Do you think this is true?
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:57 pm
380
thanks dee, i thought they were all old stuff.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Just read that the PJ are asking Interpol to interview all the witnesses who say they saw a child that looked like Madeleine in Morocco (you can read it on the Paulo Reis blog or SOS Madeleine). Now why would they do this if they are 100% certain the McCanns killed their daughter.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:55 pm
359. Hulk
But does the body have to lay in one place for two hours before the scent beds in and can be picked up by a dog, or does the body have to have been dead for two hours in order for fluids to give off odour?.
What i’m getting at is Maddie could have died, been removed to other hiding place then brought back into apartment at later time.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Stevo,
I’m the non-psychic (definitely non-psychic) Chloe from Spain. I haven’t posted much this week because I have a lot of work, but I’m still around. Maybe I should change myself to Chloe Spain or something. Perhaps it’s just coincidence that someone else has called themselves Chloe. I haven’t really posted in sufficient depth for anyone to want to either imitate me or discredit me.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
the portuguese are kicking off about the forensics taking ridiculously long to get back as well, and i don’t blame them.
seems they’re not getting any answers as to why the delay either.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
firestar - scroll down that page there is an entry for today.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
375 - Manon
You mean that ‘psychic’ is better at guessing?
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Last night, I threw in a new crazy theory which hasn’t been mentioned before…
What if…
What if either or both of the twins are responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance?
We’re all aware of cot death. What if Madeleine climbed into a cot and was somehow suffocated?
It’s a wild theory but no worse than being an organ donor.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:52 pm
374 Yeah, it’s a little meatier.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:52 pm
373
is there anywhere where the papers are more recent?
i looked but i couldn’t find this weeks.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
All the usual bunkum from blithering idiots as one has come to expect on here…
I wish some of you would just get the jobs/ psychiatric treatment you so clearly need.
Anyhow: as psychics go - and I’m not a big fan, Sally Morgan appears to be the most accurate.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:50 pm
373
thats the site with the newspapers translated on that i was looking for this morning.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Here’s the link with more info on the crematorium. I was worng - the couple was ‘foreign’ in my mind I was seeing ‘English’.
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53176&page=4
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:48 pm
367 - Jolie
Thanks for the link and source. I’d have thought it would have been checked by the millions of punters on the web by now if it were true. I’m guessing it is a case of mistaken identity by that former investigator.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Chloe
I read you’ve been impersonated. Which one are you? I like the non-psychic Chloe as you made good posts in here.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:47 pm
harry hass hole.
what’s your theory then harole?
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
350 - stan
Agreed. There’s no evidence of any psychic activity.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
365 Hulk says:
“A previous poster asked the question - if this was really Madeleine (and it could have been for all they knew) would the publication of the photo not put the girl in danger?”
Not if he knows she’s dead…..
“Why did they send it to all the newspapers?”
Hmmmm…….that’s a tricky one…………………
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
293 Stevo
Allegedly, retired detective Jose Barra da Costa told Portuguese TV weeks ago that Gerry and Kate McCann were “swingers.”
http://article.wn.com/view/2007/09/08/couple_suffer_a_bad_press/
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Stig
People look everyday anyway. If you see something suspicious where a child is concerned you report it to the authorities. It’s always been that way. As there’s thousands of missing people out there, it’s impossible to know how to look for a child beyond keeping your eyes peeled when you’re out and about.
It doesn’t need a media campaign. The McCanns have not only monopolized the whole missing child thing, but they’ve turned a lot of people off with their arrogant, unemotional, egotistical attitude. You keep saying they are doing everything but in reality they aren’t. Innocent people don’t hire SAS teams or famous lawyers. They don’t call the prime minister or billionaires for support. Why on earth are those people better suited to finding your missing child? They aren’t.
I get fed up of poor analogies. The Chamberlain case was prior to DNA fingerprinting. Haigh was convicted in 1949 without a single body being recovered from the half dozen or more that he killed. The McCanns took the Fifth Amendment route when they dealt with the police. For innocent people who are intent on co-operating with the police, why keep silent? What is that going to achieve?
What good is it to have David Beckham hold a poster of Madeleine? Tell me one good reason for having him do that. Can you imagine how other poor families felt who had lost or missing children of their own and not the media clout the McCanns are getting? Wouldn’t you be pissed off if you had a missing child and nobody gave a damn about it because the McCanns were in the spotlight?
Look at the video of the McCanns in Morocco as they are greeted by scores of youngsters looking like they want to get their autographs. What is that all about?
No wonder they irritate so many decent people.