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 5:40 pm
513 - Anonymous
Must be another fruitcake! Maura knows about these things.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:40 pm
“474
i wouldn’t be surprised if kate middleton was involved.
or voodoo.
i mean now charlie’s in it as well, who’s to say?”
Of course not!
The most difficult abductions to prove are “alien”. So that explains everything!
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:39 pm
510. Do you often say your’re leaving when you’re really staying? You’re not right.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:38 pm
415 BRANDONFLOURS,
I can go along with most of your reasonable theories/explanations listed in this post other than your dismissive attitude towards the ‘cadaver’ dogs……
I personally don’t doubt their expertise and proof of their abilities and past successes is easy to verify. According to what we have been ‘informed!’ they distinctly conveyed to their handlers the presence of a corpse in several locations….I can’t at the moment be swayed to believe the explanation given …..contact with corpses at work?….sorry, but when it comes to what the truth is I’d believe the dogs any day! woof
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:37 pm
507,
yeah that’s what he is and that is what he is called, like him or not. I have no opinion on him.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Part of an article in today’s Telegtaph online.
Is this really what we’ve come to in this tragic case? Probably worth reading the whole article if you’re really interested!
Madeleine McCann detective attacks UK police
By Aislinn Simpson in Praia da Luz
Last Updated: 2:49pm BST 02/10/2007
The Portuguese detective heading the inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has launched a breathtaking attack on his British counterparts, claiming they only investigate what the missing four-year-old’s parents want them to.
Chief Inspector Goncalo Amaral is leading the day-to-day investigation into the vanishing of the toddler from her parents’ rented apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3.
The 47-year-old detective not only laid into police but also attacked the McCanns, accusing them of “creating and working on” lines of inquiry which they then pass onto Leicestershire Police to investigate.
A family friend said it was “just plain wrong” that Kate and Gerry, both 39-year-old doctors from Rothley in Leicestershire, were seeking to exert any influence on the investigation, adding that British police were only involved to act as a liaison between the family and Portuguese detectives.
And one of the McCanns’ two Portuguese lawyers, Carlos Pinto Abreu, told Lisbon radio station TSF that Mr Amaral’s comments were “in very poor taste” and “unhelpful to the investigation”.
Chief Inspector Amaral, who heads the Policia Judiciaria in the nearby town of Portimao and is himself under investigation for allegedly concealing evidence about an alleged assault on the mother of another missing child, was speaking to the daily newspaper Diario de Noticias.
“The British police have only been working on that which the McCann couple want them to and which is most convenient for them,” he said.
“The have only investigated tips and information developed and worked on for the McCanns, forgetting that the couple are formal suspects in the death of their daughter Madeleine.”
The paper said the detective, who has come under fire in the British press for his “boozy” three-hour lunches and allegedly failing to investigate some of the tip-offs his 30-strong team of officers have received, was in an “explosive and indignant” mood during the brief interview.
Sources said his comments follow five months of gripes about the British police involved in the case.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Oooohhhhh Just read sky text, so the police finally recognise the fact that GM was indescribably negligent.
Maybe they should have checked here, we’ve been saying that from day one.
Why only GM though, they were both equally negligent in leaving the children.
Surely its not only the fact that he realised after the event that someone may have been in the apartment when he was checking the children. That was not negligence, that was moronic.
I wonder if they will be calling him back now to charge him with negligence.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:35 pm
436. Martin Brunt is a “journalist”? Is that what they call what he does?
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:35 pm
this has probably been used before but I thought I’d bring it up again just to show why some of us are so skeptical
Susan Smith
The case gained worldwide attention shortly after it developed, because Smith initially reported to police, on October 25, 1994, that she had been carjacked by an African-American man who drove away with her sons still in the car. Smith made tearful pleas on television for the rescue and return of her children. A Usenet chain letter circulated in the following days, asking Internet users to be on the lookout for the vehicle. However, nine days later, following an intensive, heavily publicized investigation and nationwide search, Smith eventually confessed to letting her 1990 Mazda Protegé roll into nearby John D. Long Lake, drowning her children inside. Many people across the United States and around the world, to whom she and her two “missing” sons had been the subject of an outpouring of sympathy, felt strongly betrayed. Their reaction to the betrayal was further aggravated by the fact that she had attempted to cast blame, falsely, upon an African-American man, making the case racially sensitive. Additionally, her alleged motive for the deaths — to dispose of her children so that she might have a relationship with a wealthy local man who had no interest in a “ready-made” family — was met with widely held contempt and revulsion. There has been no answer from Susan Smith regarding her choice not to give her husband custody of the children, instead of killing them.
Smith pleaded not guilty, despite her confessions, when prosecutors refused to offer a plea bargain. Her lawyers sought access to an advance copy of a book written by her ex-husband, David Smith, about the marriage and about Susan Smith’s killing of her sons. Eventually David Smith struck an agreement allowing the lawyers to receive an advance copy of the book, which they could use to impeach him and for any other purpose relevant to her defense.[2]
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:35 pm
494 - Will
Good idea. I’ve been on the lookout for anything pre-1:29pm on the 3rd and found nothing. After that I guess the best way to track movements is Gerry’s Blog. I’ve got a link to his archived blogs from day 1. I’ll see a bit later this afternoon…
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:34 pm
So Lust walks the hallways at dinnertime when everyone is enjoying a bottle of wine and checks the doorhandles. The handle moves. He peeks in - an empty room. He keeps going, no one is around. He checks all the handles. He opens another door. Oh what good fortune. The children are alone and alseep. He moves quietly - his tennis shoes glidie across the carpet. He nudges Maddie. She opens her eyes. I’m taking you to mommy he whispers. Then they disappear. Like the snake that he is. Gone into the night. Not even a crumb left behind, nothing, he has his prize. Maddie is his.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:33 pm
501
it was a joke silly, chill out dude.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Going out see you all later.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:32 pm
487 - sunny
Wrong Tony Bennett. No wonder you can’t read - you can’t see properly. I’m sorry for you.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:31 pm
490, Maicen
when tell me when and where these negative comments were written and I am particularly interested in the ones from employers. I was commenting on the fact that someone suggested it could have been a murder and I said I was not convinced by this because there would be no motivation for murder. The son of Sam killed many people, he was a serial killer. Are you comparing the McCanns now to serial killers?? If someone were horrible enough even in the fit if rage to kill their child there usually would be backlog of evidence of previous physical abuse. Sorry I don’t buy the murder theory at all.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:30 pm
494
No bad blinkered social workers who didnt do their job properly despite evidence against the people looking after poor victoria.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:28 pm
3rd post by Million_Quid is sublime.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:28 pm
firestar Says:
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:24 pm
481
you’d need a shovel, not a crystal ball.
You made me laugh!! Good one!! But sad when that is needed…
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:28 pm
“Mrs H…………Its MUYDA!”
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
454. That’s disturbing to learn this has been going on for quite some time then?!
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
480 - Brandon, still interested,in understanding the thought process that lead you to the conclusion that I was a social workers. Never been called that before what what.
Anyway - tennis again tonight - but non-members night so who knows who will be there
Carry on
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Stevo
If you have both the time and the inclination any chance you can run through a (sort of) definitive timeline of events on the 3rd May from what is in the public domain. Looking to print one out.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:24 pm
481
you’d need a shovel, not a crystal ball.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:23 pm
476 Maura
Bit rich but to be expected. You are incapable of reading and comprehending what others write. Think there is a term for the condition - terminal stupidity!
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Sunny………….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.
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No they do not ALL… that is just the only ones printed in press. Prior to Clarence there were negative comments from both work colleagues and friends, now loosely “banned” in mainstream press .So nobody knows a thing for a FACT about what may or may not be a motive. Perfectly normal respectable people have been known to just snap and commit horrendous crimes. Followed by statements from F&F that ” but they are such good quiet decent folk ” Everyone who knew Son of Sam guy said but he was so sweet and kind…………..Likewise Leopold and Loeb.. the list is endless , so endless it is often the least expected that do these things
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:23 pm
474
i wouldn’t be surprised if kate middleton was involved.
or voodoo.
i mean now charlie’s in it as well, who’s to say?
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:22 pm
176. Piers Morgan,
That’s one of the best observations yet about this charade.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Don’tblink Says:
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Kate maybe a complusive neat freak. Maybe she always washed it on a regular basis so this is nothing new. She isn’t thinking right - she just wants to make things better.
Yup, all sorts of possibilities. In the end we are all different and that does not make us a bad people… To me loosing a child must be the worst thing happening in life. I can’t possibly know how Kate feels. No one can not even her husband…
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
464,
VILE?? Hardly, seeing Tony Bennett in his glory days is not vile but a delight to listen to.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
http://ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com/2007/09/photographs-of-church-in-praia-da-luz.html
just found lots of photos of church and its surrounding area