PART 4: THE PSYCHICS AND THE BEACH

TOP PSYCHIC JOINS SEARCH

New twist in hunt for little Maddy DISGUISED AS A BOY? Charles’ deep concern

Daily Star Sunday   27 May 2007

Exclusive by RUTH HUGHES

AGONY: Maddy’s parents, Gerry and Kate McCann Lazarus, LEADING psychic Diane Madeleine inset above, believes is still alive but disguised as a boy, as shown in our edited image

A PSYCHIC is joining the hunt for missing Madeleine McCann.

Diane Lazarus says she will fly to Portugal on Wednesday at the request of a McCann family friend.

She will visit the holiday apartment on the Warner development at Praia da Luz where four-year-old Madeleine was staying when she vanished.

Mum-of-two Diane – who has helped police in high-profile investigations including the Jill Dando and Sarah Payne murder cases – thinks her skills can detect vital clues to who abducted the child and where she could be now. The psychic believes: 

● Madeleine IS still alive;

● She ISN’T  in Portugal;

● She has now been disguised as a BOY.

Diane told the Daily Star Sunday exclusively that she hopes to link up with Maddy’s devastated parents, Gerry and Kate, once she gets to Portugal.

At her home in Cross Hands, South Wales, she has been bombarded with e-mails from wellwishers begging her to help find Maddy and she says she is already “tuning in” to clues.

She confided: “I don’t think Maddy is actually in Portugal and they have kept moving her around.

“But I hope going there will give me the leads to where she went from there.

“I have also picked up that they have cut Madeleine’s hair and made her look like a boy. There are a couple of people involved.”

Robert Murat, who lives close to the Warner complex, is under suspicion of abducting Maddy.

But Diane insists: “I have thought he was innocent from day one.”

She went on: “Madeleine has touched my heart. She has been in my thoughts just as she is in everybody else’s. Now I just need to get out there and do something to help. “I need to start from the beginning and be where it all happened. “I will also look at a map of the area and take a photograph of Madeleine.

“I am going for four days and I should achieve a lot in that time. “I will have to be careful not to ruffle feathers with the Portuguese police because I don’t know how they feel about psychics.” Diane, 42, regularly teams up with her criminal lawyer husband, Peter Lazarus, to try and crack crimes here in the UK and in Ireland.

She talks about her skills in her autob i o g raphy, entitled Mixed Blessings. PRINCE Charles and Camilla last night gave their royal support to Maddy’s parents.

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall said they had been following the case “closely with deep concern for her parents”. Their statement added: “Their Royal Highnesses fervently hope that Madeleine will be safely returned to her family as soon as possible.”

It also emerged that soon-to-be Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken to Maddy’s dad Gerry on several occasions in the past few days offering “his full support”. Yesterday Gerry and his wife Kate described the sighting of a man seen on the night of her disappearance as “significant”. He is described as 35-to-40 years old, about 5ft 10in with short hair. He was wearing a dark jacket with light-coloured trousers.

The couple made a renewed appeal to find their four-year-old less than 24 hours after police released details of the mystery man. Mr McCann said: “We feel sure this sighting of a man with what appeared to be a child in his arms is both significant and relevant to Madeleine’s abduction.” 

6th June 2007 SOUTH WALES GUARDIAN 

Psychic says Maddie's safe

A GWENDRAETH Valley psychic has been enlisted to help with the search for missing Madeline McCann.

Mother-of-two Diane Lazarus, from Cross Hands, has flown out to Portugal to see if she can shed any light on the investigation for the missing four-year-old.

Madeline was abducted from her holiday apartment on the Algarve four weeks ago and has not been seen since.

Diane, who won Channel Five's Psychic Challenge two-years-ago, has helped police on a number of high-profile investigations in recent years.

She was invited by close friends of Gerry and Kate McCann to help with the flagging investigation, which does not appear to have produced any feasible leads.

She told a national newspaper that she has a number of theories which could lead to the capture of those responsible for the abduction.

Diane reached her conclusions after visiting the Mark Warner complex in Praia da Luz.

Mrs Lazarus has told police that the four-year-old is being well-looked after by her abductors in Spain.

She said: "I don't think that Madeline is in Portugal. The people who took her have kept moving her around.

"I have also picked up that they may have cut her hair to make her look like a boy.

"Quite honestly, I don't think Madeline has come to any harm."

Mrs Lazarus said she believes that Madeline was targeted by her abductors.

"They went out of their way to get a girl of a certain age," she said.

"They felt that as the McCanns have two other children, taking Maddie wouldn't be quite as bad."

But she is confident Madeline will be found. She will be returned to her mummy and daddy," she said.

AMANDA JAYNE HART:

Last May it was reported in the UK Press Gazette that the McCanns, their friends and their family had invited the 'alleged psychics' Diane Lazarus (of Cardiff) and Amanda Hart across to Portugal to see if they could discover what happened to Madeleine (Amanda is an ex-resident of Portugal and Spain).

What's interesting is that Amanda Hart registered a website domain for her new company on April 28 2007 called Amber Connections Ltd. 

Hart registered the actual company name on April 26th 2007 with the UK's 'Companies House'.

This 'psychic detective' company was to specialise in Missing Persons and Miscarriages of Justice. It was to behave in principle rather like the 'psychic wing' of Gerry's Amber Alert Sysyem.

Amanda Hart registered this domain 5 days before Madeleine went missing. It's alleged both she and Diane Lazarus were then invited across to Portugal by friends of the McCanns. 

What's interesting is that Amanda Hart registered a website domain for her new company on April 28 2007 called Amber Connections Ltd. 

Hart registered the actual company name on April 26th 2007 with the UK's 'Companies House'.

This 'psychic detective' company was to specialise in Missing Persons and Miscarriages of Justice. It was to behave in principle rather like the 'psychic wing' of Gerry's Amber Alert Sysyem.

Amanda Hart registered this domain 5 days before Madeleine went missing. It's alleged both she and Diane Lazarus were then invited across to Portugal by friends of the McCanns. 

Despite the fact that Praia da Luz doesn't have a marina, the nearest being Lagos, the beach was not forgotten: 

"On my insistence, Gerry and Dave went out again to look for some sign of Madeleine. They went up and down the beach in the dark, running, shouting, desperate to find something; please God, to find Madeleine herself. It was only much later that Gerry told me he’d already started remembering cases of other missing children and acknowledging the horrific possibility that Madeleine might not be found. It was a possibility I could not have begun to contemplate."

This is how David Payne remembers it: 

'we went down err to the beach ......he broke down with me on the front, you know. You know just very obviously a broken man, and you know we spent some time you know, not long, I was trying my best to console him, we went back then to the err the apartment, you know it's, by around about four, four thirty in the morning..............'

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/DAVID-PAYNE-ROGATORY.htm

Next we have the amazing Miss Pennington:

Portuguese police to probe 'Madeleine dumped at sea' claim Daily Mail (article no longer available online)

Last updated at 14:48pm on 14th October 2007

Portuguese police are becoming increasingly convinced that Madeleine McCann's body was dumped at sea.

Detectives are believed to be keen to re-interview a British nanny who claims she saw a mystery boatman kicking at something in the middle of the night two days after Madeleine McCann disappeared.

Former Mark Warner nanny Charlotte Pennington said she spotted the man in a small dinghy just off the Praia da Luz seafront. She claims he was kicking at an object stored in the boat's hull.

When she moved closer to investigate, the man - whose name she has given to Portuguese and British police - stooped out of sight then hurriedly rowed away.

Portuguese police are taking the sightings seriously and Miss Pennington, 20, and are looking to interview her once again.

She was working in the Ocean Club's creche on May 3, the night Madeleine disappeared. She is the only person to have given a full, public description of the events of that evening.

She told police how she heard Kate McCann scream: "They've taken her" on the night of May 3, when Madeleine vanished, and that she saw the first official suspect Robert Murat standing outside the Ocean Club that night.

Miss Pennington said the man was wearing a reflective yellow jacket with a hood but she could not make out his face.

One police source today described the sighting as 'credible'.

Miss Pennington said: "I'm pleased they are taking this seriously as it means they aren't just looking at the McCanns as suspects."

Miss Pennington's account potentially tallies with repeated suggestions that Madeleine was smuggled out of the Algarve on board a boat, or that her body was dumped at sea.

It also tallies with a second report today claiming new evidence proves that Madeleine was alive when she was taken from her bed.

Police have been told Kate McCann knew instantly her daughter had been snatched because the bedclothes were in exactly the same position, raised above the mattress as if they were still lying over the little girl.

Friends of the McCanns believe this prove she was taken and did not just wander off, which would have ruffled the bedclothes.

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The Daily Mail has a tendency to re-write and overwrite its articles. The article reproduced above was a re-write of a previous article that was published on 27 September 2007. A section of the original article was removed from the subsequent re-write and is reproduced here:

'Former Mark Warner nanny Charlotte Pennington said she spotted the man in a small dinghy just off the Praia da Luz seafront at 11.30pm. She claims he was kicking at an object stored in the boat's hull. 

When she moved closer to investigate, the man - whose name she has given to Portuguese and British police - stooped out of sight then hurriedly rowed away. 

Portuguese police are taking the sightings seriously and Miss Pennington, 20, has twice spoken to Leicestershire detectives about her evidence.

Yesterday Miss Pennington said the man was wearing a reflective yellow jacket with a hood but she could not make out his face. 

However the following day she was shocked to see a man - whom she had come to know over the preceding week - wearing exactly the same distinctive jacket as the man in the boat.'  unquote

Below is a link to a blogspot about amber alert and the general political climate at the time. It's long, but entertaining. 

http://britishspoofreportingonmccanncase.blogspot.com/2012/01/grooming-mccanns-amber-alert-prum.html