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.
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October 2nd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
533,
Im back,
I did not say that you mentioned murder, someone else was talking about murder (Will) and my post was referring to that.You did not read it properly. He was not talking about an accident killing but willful murder in the heat of the moment. I gave the example that women who are murdered by their partners are rarely murdered without there already being prior physical abuse.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
537 thats him.
So is it the portuguese bowing to political pressure from Gordon Brown or is it Branson and money talking (or the ex-window cleaner?).
Or is it our friend Clarence finally doing something which might actually help the Mccanns escape?
I wish the UK police would actually do something useful instead of fuelling the portuguese and guarding the Mccanns.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:05 pm
540 - The Usual Arguidos
I think after Tony Bennett revealed who Moderation was yesterday, McModeration has improved. But as fast as that happened, McSunny took her place.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:04 pm
531 Solaris - the portuguese chap whp said the UK police were ‘doing what the mccanns want’
Top Cop In Madeleine Search Sacked
Updated: 17:55, Tuesday October 02, 2007
The Portuguese investigator heading the search for missing Madeleine McCann has reportedly been sacked.
(FROM SKY)
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:04 pm
534 - Maicen
Sunny and Maura both twist what others say and add their own spin to it. It happens to us all. At least you know you’re not alone. Hey, you’re lucky - at least you haven’t been called a fruitcake!
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Mods and Admin
As they appeared to be ‘ganging’ up I have deleted that post as gratuitous
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:03 pm
McModeration and McMaura have gone a bit quiet.
Christ, they haven’t fallen down the naughty steps have they?
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Sunny,
Shut up about Tony Bennett already.
I just see your name and skip your posting.
Drivel. Drivel. Drivel.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I read that Gonçalo Amaral was taken off the case as a result of this morning statement about the british police. (but he’ll remain in the PJ).
source expresso online.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Why an organized ring? Why not just one wierdo walking on the beach. Someone no one would suspect. Someone beyond suspicion? So easy to hid then. This person probably helped with the search and could have even given “advice” - heck why not one of these media people who needed a good story!
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
531 - Maria
Good posting. I think that if you choose to lie to the police and tell them someone is missing but you made up that story, I can really imagine it taking on a life of its own and growing like a cancer. I can believe it because a) we’re seeing it in front of our own eyes and b) it really all came about because the two people who claimed abduction are respected doctors. This would not have manifested itself like this had they been tattooed and pierced yobs from some rough council estate.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Maybe we (the establishment that loves consultants) should send the British police over to portugal, they could stitch up some locals and plant some DNA on them, chuck in a few expert witnesses and have this sewn up in no time.
Im pretty sure the portuguese authorities would turn a blind eye - especially if the ex-window cleaner and the barrow boy slipped them a few quid.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:00 pm
500 Sunny….You are NOT in a position to state whether they had a motive or not because you do not know them, nor the events of their lives, or inner working of their lives or thought processes.You mealy state what you hope is true. .Nor am I. in any such position for same reason.
Fact is : thousands of people who end up killing either by design or by accident have NO prior record of abuse or tempestuous behaviour.
I have not suggested in any post MURDER.. it is not a word I have used once. IF you read my entires.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:59 pm
522 - Jolie
Excellent posting….well put forward.
I’ve seen people who need anti-depressants when they’ve had to go without them for a time. It really can be like dealing with two completely different people in the same body.
Isn’t it funny…we get intimate details about the weather and other trivia from Gerry via his blog but we know little about Kate McCann and hardly anything about Madeleine. I’ve always wondered why you can embark on a HUGELY public media campaign but not say hardly anything about the victim in all of this - Madeleine.
I have visions of this entire case becoming like the Stephen Lawrence case. The perpetrators will go free but worse still, there’ll be book deals and interviews with the McCanns till the end of time thus making them richer beyond their dreams. And…they could be the guilty ones…
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Ian - who has been sacked?
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:57 pm
471 Atropa
I didn’t suggest kidnapping either for money or even by a ring.
The McCanns certainly didn’t have enough money to interest anyone wanting a ransom.
I agree that a paedophile ring or traffickers would probably find easier prey elsewhere.
That’s why I wonder if the theory of abduction, for padophile purposes, by one or two males, a local crime, as suggested by the expert detective in the Sky programme on Sunday, is probably the true explanation as being the simplest and most likely. It fits with the known facts and the probable timeline and requires no mind-boggling conspiracy theories, aliens, magic disappearances, emergency surgical operations, doctors illegally sedating children, friends risking life, limb and career to cover up a mate’s crime, incredible acting ability (in a whole variety of styles!) and a world-wide hoax. It also fits with what we know of the McCanns from all their close friends, new and old, colleagues, neighbours, relatives, pastors etc. ALL of whom are completely convinced of their innocence as indeed are the reporters who have followed the story from the beginning and who have seen the McCanns in different moods over the months and even interviewed them from time to time.
None of them believes the McCanns are guilty, even those who think the media campaign, effective to begin with, has now gone horribly wrong, that there is far too much fuss over one missing child and that the British public are bored with the story.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:56 pm
So the lead investigator who dared to mention that the British police were jsut doing what theMccanns said, has now been sacked…it gets worse!
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Stevo and SSS - theory about M suffocating is fine except it doesn’t explain why there is no body? Why not just call the hospital/police to report a terrible accident. Worst case would be charged with negligence.
It is so so frustrating - every time anyone goes down a certain avenue - BANG! you run into a problem.
And for all those who say…yes and that is why it is simply an abduction….then why all the unnatural body language/word choice etc., ‘lying’ behaviour while being interviewed and u-turns in timelines etc. and reluctance to answer the remainder of the PJ questions.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:54 pm
516. That’s good. Very very good.
Maddie is probably very close to the resort - dead or alive? Probably dead. She might have been alive for a few days afterwards - but not long. Not after her parents reported her “eye” flaw - but in any event she is close to the resort. Most children are found rather close to their home, sometimes right next door.
The police and even parents make a mistake by broadening out their search. I remember three missing young ones in N.J. and the police came with their dogs and their fancy searches, water rescue and all hurried to the river, the dogs following old trails - surely the children had drowned at the river. Hours spent dragging the river. The river was everyone’s worst fear!
The children died in their front yard in the trunk of their parents car. Probably playing hide and seek or something. They suffocated. No one checked the car. Not the police, not the parents, not the neighbors. No one. Searching across the world for Maddie is a mistake.
Just my opinion!
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
518 - “and his owner said dogs cant lie”
No but they do make mistakes.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
517. Macien thank you for confirming my suspicions of Brunt.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
516 - Thats classic.
If the younger generation know its wrong to leave 3 children alone, how come an educated doctor didn’t?
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:51 pm
522. well said Solaris!
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:48 pm
We seem to keep coming back to the same mis-conceptions every other day. Notably the one that says “Well… if PJ have evidence that the McCanns have committed a crime why don’t they charge them?”.
Maria - I’ll try again to explain this to you. I’m not the holder of truth & knowledge, but throughout my professional life I was fortunate to develop some (basic) knowledge of criminal law in continental europe.
The investigators in Portugal have clearly not enough evidence to suggest that Kate and Gerry McCann have killed their daughter (either intentionally or otherwise). That’s why they have not (yet) pressed charges.
The investigators in Portugal clearly have enough evidence to suggest that the McCanns are involved in a crime. A crime could be moving and hiding the body for example or reporting a crime that they know was not a crime. This is very clear since they have maintained the legal status of Arguido under the minimum restriction terms. If there was enough evidence to suggest that they have killed their daughter they would have made arguidos but would be asked to surrender their passport and possibly put under preventive arrest.
The public prosecutor could now decide to press charges against the McCanns for moving and hiding a body (possibly). But that will not happen until all possibilities to compile evidence that Madeleine was murdered are exhausted. That is why the body is paramount for this investigation. Because without the body, it’ll be difficult for the prosecution to suggest that the McCanns are involved in anything other than obstructing the course of justice.
I hope this helps clarifying the legal situation - and puts to rest the claim that “because there’s no accusation - the PJ don’t have evidence against the McCanns”. On the contrary if they didn’t have evidence they’ll most likely agree to the comfortable theory that Madeleine was kidnapped and taken to Morocco.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:48 pm
One thing (of many things) that’s bothered me about this case is the specific targeting of Kate McCann’s mothering, her medical history, and the things she allegedly writes about her kids in her journal.
I would be more worried about someone doing something desperate if they were depressed, not diagnosed, and NOT on antidepressants. It is more likely that someone on antidepressants is being successfully treated for their condition.
Her descriptions of how she felt about her mothering duties I think are mild and typical of what any woman would be likely to feel if she had primary care of two toddlers and a 3 to 4 year-old “independent” child with “bags full of personality,” particularly if she had little or no help from her partner. I think a woman can be a very good mother and still feel emotionally and physically overwhelmed with caring for her young children.
I can’t tell you how much I rejoiced when my daughter started preschool and then kindergarten (and I love her very much). She has been quite the handful to live with–very strong willed. (My older child was entirely different and much more manageable.) If I had had twins to deal with at the same time as my daughter… Well, let’s just say, I’m so glad I didn’t.
If Kate is responsible for ‘losing it’ with Madeleine and things got out of hand, I can sympathize with her. I could also understand how she would not want to risk jail time and losing her other children because of a regrettable accident and might choose not to come forward with the truth. Who wants to lose their freedom or their children? I would hope if I were ever responsible for something that led to another’s injury or death, I would have the courage to tell the truth and face the consequences, but until you’re faced with a situation like that, how do you know? I do know I am a terrible liar, though, and would put Gerry McCann to shame for dead giveaway signs, so I guess I would ‘fess up because I could never even begin to give a convincing story and would be found out anyway.
That said, I don’t know if Kate was a normal, loving mother–how could we know? We’ve only seen her after a terrible tragedy has occurred, whether she is complicit in it or not. What we do know is that she is not now behaving like most mothers would in the same circumstance. That is a clue but not proof that she may be involved or have knowledge of the full events of May 3. The behavioral clues of the parents are what make us suspicious. We need formal evidence to be reported to know for sure.
If the McCanns are responsible for Madeleine’s death and they chose to create this elaborate campaign to disguise the truth, that is more unforgiveable than the original bad act, IMO, unless the death went beyond mere accident/manslaughter.
Something is wrong with the McCann’s story; I do feel sure of that, just as so many others here.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:48 pm
VERA,
I’m with you on the dogs.
Also I believe dogs can detect a cadaver much more quickly after death than 2-4 hours. In two to four hours we would be able smell it. Anyone have any info on that?
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:47 pm
515 If you have no opinion then please go. ?Never going to post to you ever again? Are you delusional? I don’t know you. God you really not right.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
oops sorry vera i forgot to post the link i got it from
I love eddie and his owner said dogs cant lie
like humans
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Ian 421
Martin Brunt..indeed as manufactured as ..er……… Kylie Minogue is.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I love it when people like this are confident enough and think so strongly about this that they are brave enough to make a video and post it to the world with their opinions. This guy is vocalising what most of us are thinking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwsqXg71HXo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhomepage%2Entlworld%2Ecom%2Fgemma%2Edawson18%2FTappas%25209%2FTAPPAS%25209%2Ehtm
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:41 pm
512,
actually Anonymous if you must know I am putting on my shoes now, a slight delay. Besides I thought you were never going to post to me ever again. See ya sweet cakes. Peace to all.