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 9:09 pm
806. Stevo.
I was a bit taken aback by your comment that;
“I wouldn’t put it past him beating someone up though. He reminds me of Jack Regan in the Sweeney….only the Portuguese equivalent”
That’s all, especially as you normally post reasoned arguments.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:07 pm
799 - Wendy
I’m not saying you are or aren’t a McCann supporter.
As for the PJ, I haven’t seen anything myself to suggest the PJ are useless or losing credibility.
Hey - and I’m directing this to McCann supporters. In all early interviews, Gerry McCann said how well the police were doing in the investigation. Why would he say that if now, there’s all this crap being circulated about their inept abilities in the days after May 3? I’ll tell you why - it’s because those stories now are being fabricated.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
814. Thank you Judith C!!!! I agree with your each and every statement.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:04 pm
810. Did I accidentally get on the Middleton Mojo thread again? Or has Kate Middleton charmed Anorak?
I feel someone’s Mojo rising????!!???!??!
(How could anyone not have love for Prince William? He’s such a cutey. Prince Harry will be the one who needs to get VooDooed-washed & exorcised to get some serious love.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
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Ian: your criticism of Maria is well deserved. I hate to think what it would be like to meet her, one would never get a word in edgeways. When I see her name by one of her verbose posts now I just scroll past because having ploughed through a few of them I ask myself what I have learned and it’s nix.
If the Leicester two were innocent they would have answered each and every question the Portuguese police put to them - gladly. Wouldn’t you if you lost your child? Wouldn’t I? YES, YES, YES.
If they were innocent they would not have fled from Portugal as fast as their first flight out would carry them, after having reiterated over and over again (when the spotlight was on someone else) that they would stay.
If they were innocent they would not have hired four madly expensive lawyers (but then they’re not paying) before they were even charged, one of whom Caplan, is an international lawyer specialising in extradition - and if nit-pickers are reading this, I know that we have an EU deal on this, but Caplan is still a useful bloke to have around if you don’t want to go back and face the music.
If they were innocent they would not have deliberately created a media blitz in the UK since returning in the hope that it would sway public opinion. Why should they worry about public opinion unless they are guilty? The hope is that public opinion in their favour would affect politicians who would in turn lean on the Portuguese to drop the case. The fact is that their distasteful media campaign has backfired and twice as many people think they are hiding something as think they are not.
If they were innocent, as so-called educated middle-class professionals, they would act with dignity, return to Portugal, answer the questions and stay to clear their name. They have not worked for five months and have unlimited financial backers, so living expenses would be taken care of.
If they were innocent they would not strive to stay in the public eye by starting yet another “Find Madeleine Campaign” (but only in Portugal and Spain despite being ‘convinced’ Madeleine is in North Africa). Madeleine, even if she is alive, will never be found in this way and the campaign is a defensive action designed to show they care about finding her and not just about protecting themselves. However, I think people have already made their minds up about this one.
Finally, if they were innocent they wouldn’t ever lie and constantly change their stories. Innocent people don’t change their stories. They may not remember everything but what they remember they don’t change. There is no need.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:02 pm
802 Anonymous: “No one even considers: Hey! Maybe Joanna’s mother and her lover did kill her and then tried to blame the cops for brutality because jail is an awful place and then want to get out?”
REPLY: Precisely my conclusion also. The girls’ blood in her fridge? And she wasn’t involved?
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I feel fairly certain that the removal of Amaral from the case was politically pressured. I suspect what he said this morning about the British investigation could be close to the truth. We see the British media is being controlled and influenced, probably by the government. Why would it be so hard to believe that they are pressuring the police as well?
But perhaps the PJ realize that the Madeleine case will be come more watertight if they remove Mr. Amaral and thereby the objections that are raised about him, i.e. his connection to the Joana Cipriano murder case.
Personally, after reading information about the Cipriano case, I don’t know why anyone would believe anything Leonor Cipriano said.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:01 pm
795. I agree Mateo it’s strange if this is true.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Magda , you are absolutely right and few people know this is absolutely true.
It is reported that Kate Middleton has done Voodoo on Prince William.
A source close reports that Kate Middleton has taking instruction from a Voodoo priestess several times a week after the split and she has also use witchcraft spells .
She doesnt have any kind of love for Prince William it is known by a close source.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
594 ian
“So, Mccann fans, tell me this, if Madeleine had not been left alone that night whilst their parents went ‘dining’, would we be discssuing her now? Yes or no?”
No, but if the McCanns hadn’t desperately wanted a child and gone to the trouble of IVF she would never have been - period.
You claim pro McCann people never argue anything logically - go through my posts today - any day - and point out my illogical reasoning or lack of structured argument. I would be happy to debate what you find.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
801. Vera, enter the world of being politically correct even in the most tragic of circumstances.
However, if they’d been poor, or a single mother or Asian or black and left their kids unsupervised in an unlocked holiday apartment or alone in their very own home! Oh boy would the reports have a much different flavour.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
im cant speak or see people from there past lifes but i can tell a lier and bad parents from a mile away. kate should do nuts or zoo mags as she has a lovely set of tits?
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
766 - Andy
You cut and pasted my bit about Amaral in there along with the plonkers that think it’s bad to talk about McCanns private life but not Amarals. You must have pasted me in there in error. I don’t need to answer your question on it because I think it’s ok to talk about anyone mentioned in the press - Amaral, McCann, or whoever.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
801 …sorry, meant to say isn’t actually Neglect
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
If they did kill her, It’s sad that this little girl’s life had to end!! And it’s terrible that the parent’s couldn’t do the right thing!!! They keep telling the abductor to do the right thing..But THEY are the one’s that should…The way I look at it, they may have a lot of support..ESPECIALLY now..they probably went out to celebrate for what happened to the investigator..But i’m sure they got sitters this time!!! But anyway, the way I look at it, Their reputation and lives will never be the same. I hope they regret this somehow, someway, and cofess.
Sorry for any mispellings..I speak/type mostly Italian
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
386 - Sunny
Possibly they want to double check that none of the people involved in ’sightings’ have links to McCann’s, their supporters, etc, etc? i.e. They KNOW Madeleine is dead therefore there cannot be any live sightings and putting aside genuine mistakes, of which there will always be some, are there any which are being ‘manufactured?’
Not saying I believe this to be the case, just proposing a plausible reason why the police may be interested.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
797. Wendy you are basing your own judgment of PJ on hearsay. What facts do you have about how they operate and what they have done specifically in this case? The UK press has printed lie after lie after lie about PJ; using the disappearance of Joanna Cipriano and her mother and her mother’s lover’s trial and convictions as evidence of PJ when all the so called “facts” they’ve “reported” are nothing more than made up fabrications. This has been pointed out again and again yet so many here on Anorak will only believe the police are corrupt bit of the story. No one even considers: Hey! Maybe Joanna’s mother and her lover did kill her and then tried to blame the cops for brutality because jail is an awful place and then want to get out?
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
I don’t understand how anyone could argue that leaving those three babies in an un-locked apartment to fend for themselves leading to the subsequent tragic consequences is actually Neglect….everything else (apart from the dogs that is!) is supposition.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:51 pm
783. John I agree with you. I always found the McCann’s persistant claim (I heard them say it in several interveiws) about Madeleine not being able to open the unlocked door preposterous.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:51 pm
794 Stevo
I am not a McCann supporter. And the police in Portugal are certainly losing credibility with me.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Good evening!
It is a pity Amaral is sacked.
Why don’t McTeam come now with such theory: Humpty-Dumpty (Egg-man)
abducted Madeleine, “had a great fall” with her. And All the king’s horses and all the king’s men (Mr. Brown’s?) will be having great difficulties to get the abduction lead “together again”.
1) It is obvious that some pro’Mc. posts like to twist the logic: for example, that if there is no history of abuse, a person cannot be a murderer? The Russian serial killer did not have any history when he pushed his friend out of the window. It was at the time concluded as a suicide, actually. Is it logical to forget that any murderer commits their First murder at first? And the magority do not have any history, because often the first murder can be more or less accidental.
2) All posts I tried to Daily Mail were removed, if they were not defending Mccanns. (I never wrote any defamatory things). Even Doubt was not allowed.
So someone is looking after the “public opinion”. The annoying thing is that DMail say: “… people commented so far”, when, in fact, many times more people have commented, but had their opinions deleted. It would be much fairer to say: “Out of 268 people (for example) 6 poeple’s comments we decided to publish so far.
3) The fact that Kennedy employed Mitchell does not mean that the businessman supports Mccanns morally. It is just good for business: if you have control of the spokesman and if the lawyers are your in-house lawyers, then you can control the media (and make much more money from it), and you will be the first to obtain any break-through info (like confession). So nobody does them a charity, it is all sensible business decisions.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:49 pm
791
I quote:
“But Kate and gerry are pure and good and we shouldn’t make any critical observations of them EVER!”
Anyone can make critical observations about anyone. But there is a difference between guessing and facts.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:49 pm
792 - Mateo
You’re spot on with that. They’re too confident to make such claims.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:49 pm
I heard they’re doing their “own” forensics of the car they rented..What will that prove?? absolutely nothing..They have already said that it could be from all the clothing, nappies that they carried in the back..and also her flip flops..So they are truly challenging the PJ..Maybe they are innocent..but i highly doubt it..also with what has happened to the investigator..Forget about it..
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:47 pm
787 - Wendy
I disagree. I don’t live in Portugal and I doubt that you do. How do you know the police there have lost credibility apart from what British news tabloids are making out? One policeman under investigation is nothing. There will be plenty of British police under investigation for various issues as we speak.
I do agree that the PJ are losing credibility by the minute with McCann supporters. I’m sure they’re all revelling in it.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:46 pm
An article about that alleged “beating” and the case;
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2007/07/truth-about-leonor-cipriano-mother-of.html
And this from portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=10687
“Updated: 02 December 2005
Joana’s mother unable to identify policemen who ‘beat her’
FOUR POLICEMEN were required to appear at the Departamento de Investigação e Acção Penal in Évora earlier this week, to be formally identified by Leonor Cipriano, who is accusing the police of beating her when she was being questioned about the disappearance of her daughter Joana. However, Leonor only recognised two out of the four men as having interviewed her and said that the pair had not been involved in the assault.
Leonor and her brother João, who were living in Figueira (Portimão), were convicted earlier this month of the little girl’s murder and have each been given long prison terms. The accused was interrogated in October of last year and, according to a report published by Expresso newspaper, the police beat the woman in order to get her to reveal the whereabouts of Joana’s body. Leonor has presented photographs that show injuries to her face, namely two black eyes, which, according to the inspectors, were caused during a suicide attempt.”
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
I have a feeling that K & G know that the body will never be recovered..They have challenged the PJ..by telling them to find the body to prove they killed her..I truly believe they know her body will never be found..I really don’t think the priest is involved, other than giving them the keys..But something tells me they will walk out of this one…
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
766. I know Andy but that’s how it works here with a lot of these posters. They will attack anyone who who makes even the slightest hint at “Well maybe they are complicit.” With ad hominems. And as far as the other character’s in this mystersy - anyone who is not related to the McCanns or friends with the McCanns (especially if they are Portuguese) can be lambasted, poked and effigied ’til kingdom come.
But Kate and gerry are pure and good and we shouldn’t make any critical observations of them EVER!
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
395 murder
“Is there actually any solid evidence apart from the time/date-stamp on a digital photo, that Madeleine was actually alive on 3 May?”
Yes, the nanny said so.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:43 pm
http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/mothers%20who%20kill/Mothers%20Who%20Kill.htm
sorry forgot to post link
but I think its interesting