McGuckin In McCann Peril: Foreign Crimes In Foreign Climes
BRITONS planning trips to the new Portugal should go equipped with a loud hailer, a private detective and nothing too shiny. If on a driving holiday, ensure the boot can be opened from within.
Listen to the tale told by Eamon and Antionette McGuckin, who found their three children in the care of the Portuguese – and what irony there, readers – after they were attacked by a “Rohypnol gang”.
One would imagine that given the paralysing powers of the so-called date rape drug, the Rohypnol Gang are not much cop at ganging, preferring to lie down and wait their victim to trip over them. It would help if the victims were drunk.
But this gang is armed with the drug and slipping it into the “small jug” of sangria the McGuckins were quaffing, sipping, even. (Although the Mirror’s Sue Carroll sees the “dog tired, hot and thirsty” couple taking beer – mucky foreign beer.)
Says a friend of the family, namely a Dr Cyril Harkin: “Neither of them are big drinkers. They have tried to understand what happened and have linked the sangria with the sudden decline in their health. They believe they were drugged by someone trying to rob them.”
The GP puts the tin lid on the matter by saying: “The Portuguese authorities are paranoid after the Madeleine McCann case.”
We are not anti-foreigner, and are quite confident that if the entire peoples of continental Europe were placed in a cell we could find a dozen for a game of cricket and a scorer, but can only conclude that the vast mojortity Portuguese are the scum of the Earth and in need of hanging…
Posted: 7th, May 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (448) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 8th, 2008 at 12:09 am
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Christine Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Sam - no watch it now!
that’s very strange. and you know and you know and they know and, they must’ve known etc etc, and then the action of what is called whoosh clink. a chopping action and tongue click. that’s bizarre.
May 8th, 2008 at 12:04 am
401 Chatlaeine
What abductor?
I can’t believe the doors were unlocked either. I look after my bits and pieces of belongings when I’m on holiday. Clothes, bits of accessories, camera, money, etc etc. Not to mention my three children… Actually I’m fed up with this conversation - it’s got no legs.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
413
Christine Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Sam - no watch it now!
okay, i’m putting it on now.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
411
Gandolf Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
For you Chenny honey, anything. Seb has been telling me that some are viewing this case, as more quantum than relative, there in may well lie the elusive click.
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Eek!
If you are going to get physical I must go.
Besides, once my brain has eroded to the point that I can make puns like that, I clearly need sleep…
Goodnight, all…
May 7th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Sam - no watch it now!
May 7th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
410
sam
Hi Sam
Slow motion movie?
May 7th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
For you Chenny honey, anything. Seb has been telling me that some are viewing this case, as more quantum than relative, there in may well lie the elusive click.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
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jo Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
hi jo
May 7th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
392
Gandolf Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
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Thank you.
I stayed there rather longer than I should; the article about ‘corrupt’ doctors was interesting…
May 7th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Hi
May 7th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
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Christine Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
christine, thanks, i’ll save it for tommorrow as himself is watching red drawf and it’s a bit late, thanks
May 7th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
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Since the story about the jammed shutters proved to be not true, the abductor needed to have had another way of getting in …
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yes, we think similar on that one.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Ferdi the fukwit bevvy merchants who sparkoed in front of their kids, don’t have the ability to insult my inteligence.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
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Christine Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
394 Sam
You mean you didn’t see Panorama? You missed a classic. In the absence of it, it was all very factual and K&G doing their normal day to day life. Oh bugger, I’ll try and find a link for you.
Back shortly hopefully…..
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i never saw it no, just read the transcript and read a lot here. i don’t read gerry’s blog either, it just winds me up i found.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1rQazjM-bCo
And, just for you Sam 394 - the famous whoosh clunk. And who was the film director? Jon Corner - make of it what you will.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
392 Gandolf Quotes:
” The arrival at the Family Court of Family and Children of Faro yesterday was awaited by dozens of British and Portuguese journalists. ”
OK, I withdraw my previous comments. I now understand that their holiday had been irreversibly spoiled, and it made no sense to stay any longer, especially one wouldn’t want to provide the media with a court spectacle. Not everybody is keen to become a footnote in the McCann saga with his/her family.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
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Marie Nicholas Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Jass 356
I can’t believe that the doors were unlocked. They aren’t that irresponsible.
As you say, in that case, why would they say they were unlocked? What purpose could it serve?
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Since the story about the jammed shutters proved to be not true, the abductor needed to have had another way of getting in …
May 7th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
394 Sam
You mean you didn’t see Panorama? You missed a classic. In the absence of it, it was all very factual and K&G doing their normal day to day life. Oh bugger, I’ll try and find a link for you.
Back shortly hopefully…..
May 7th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
396
Gandolf Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
In short, the steamboats duo did a runner fron the hotel with their kids, never checked out or went through normal proceedures .
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didn’t pay the bill ? i remember reading that the maccans weren’t charged by mw either, but i dont’ know if that’s true.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
394
Christine Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
385 Chenier
So why would having arguidos in support, benefit Amber Alert? What would it do to enhance their effort?
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Publicity.
Provided, of course, you adhere to the belief that there’s no such thing as bad publicity…
May 7th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
391
sam Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
389
chenier Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Can’t argue with that one.
I suspect he thought he was coming across as House…
as house ?, what does that mean please ?
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My apologies.
House is a TV show starring Hugh Laurie as an extremely gifted, bordering on genius, doctor who’s also a jerk.
I doubt that Gerry grasps that House is a jerk; he probably just sees the incredibly gifted bordering on genius bit.
Each episode is a mystery; what is killing this particular patient?
So House puts his junior doctors through large numbers of hoops, and there is much writing on boards and flowcharts.
Sometimes they even get to find out what’s killing the patient before it does…
May 7th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
In short, the steamboats duo did a runner fron the hotel with their kids, never checked out or went through normal proceedures .
May 7th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
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willo Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Ferdinand always did remind me of bull. Knobjockey has recently bought to mind the name Garth. So those names I understand. But why why why Maria?
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Why what, please??????
May 7th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
390
Christine Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
388 Sam
I presume you mean Jon Corner? I’ve always wondered where his loyalties lie. IMO he’s dobbed them in with the ‘whoosh clunk’. That’s where it came from on Panorama. He left the footage in, which I thought that wAS REALLY strange. For all the world to see - K was either pissed or was on something.
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chenier was talking about the filming, i don’t know who the camera person was. jon corner is the person who shot the panorama footage i believe ? i never saw that program, have only seen some pix from it, or more have seen a picture with gerry over a laptop, i think in the appartment of pdl. you think kate was pissed ? i thought the picture of him with that primative flowchart very funny, though one shouldn’t really as it’s about a missing child, his missing child.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
385 Chenier
So why would having arguidos in support, benefit Amber Alert? What would it do to enhance their effort?
May 7th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Wassup… http://jn.sapo.pt/2008/05/07/policia_e_tribunais/irlandeses_escapam_a_ao_tribunal.html
May 7th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
389
chenier Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Can’t argue with that one.
I suspect he thought he was coming across as House…
as house ?, what does that mean please ?
May 7th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
388 Sam
I presume you mean Jon Corner? I’ve always wondered where his loyalties lie. IMO he’s dobbed them in with the ‘whoosh clunk’. That’s where it came from on Panorama. He left the footage in, which I thought that wAS REALLY strange. For all the world to see - K was either pissed or was on something.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
388
sam Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
…..the flowcharts were funny though
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Can’t argue with that one.
I suspect he thought he was coming across as House…
May 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
387
chenier Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
‘It has looked that way almost from the very beginning.
Anyone foolish enough to invite a friend to shoot ‘intimate footage’ of Gerry working his fingers to the bone on his keyboard is also foolish enough to believe that they could make a career out of the tragedy…’
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possibly, the flowcharts were funny though