Sick Psychic?

[LazyGun]

A self - proclaimed psychic uses a high profile case of a missing girl to generate some self - publicity and ultimately personal gain.

Said charlatan then goes on to express surprise that the parents of the missing girl were distressed by his claims that she was dead. What a scumbag, to trade on the personal misery of others.

There is nothing even remotely entertaining about this low life....

http://www.telegraph....h-Maddie-is-dead.html

[rowanwitch]

Could just as easily say she will be found in a house in france with a green door where three rivers join within a mile and there is a church on the hill above the village...

If anyone finds a place that meets the description...and she isn't there well she was...they have moved on...

[jno]

as I said, my prediction is that he won't do anything of the sort.

Actually, I'm not really sharing the hate of Acorah. He's as entitled to his views on the girl's disappearance as anyone else, and he's entitled to state them. Everyone has views on the subect, thanks to the huge publicity campaign instigated by the McCanns themselves (for very good reason). Many of these views will distress them, but that's the risk you take with publicity campaigns.

Frankly, I too think she's dead, and my guess is that almost everyone in the country agrees with me and should have the right to say so.

As I said earlier, my beef is with the Sun, which gave the story a lot of play while denouncing Acorah for providing it. That's real hypocrisy.

[flip_flop]

I don't think anybody is having a go at this idiot because he has a view as to whether Madeleine McCann is dead or not....but people are, quite rightly in my opinion, having a go at him because he has stated it as a matter of fact because his 'spirit guide', Sam, has told him she is dead.

The man is a cretin.

[sandyRoe]

More charlatan than cretin, I'd say.

[Philtaz]

At the risk of repeating myself from another thread, certainly something starting with the letter 'c'.........

[sandyRoe]

Yes, that too. A right C.

[Graham-W]

A right C that's making a lot of money conning the gullible into believing he can contact dead people offering advice to the living.
Needs to be stopped!

[cathfromsaron]

boycott the tour?

[ELVIS68]

People have been conned for years by all this psychic nonsense, would there be as much fuss if it didn't involve Madeleine?

The Sun have printed worse stories about her than this.

[LazyGun]

The media have quote the parents as having been "distressed" about Acorahs comments.

Unlike some bloke spouting off in a pub, this guy is a self proclaimed psychic. Despite having been shown to be a fake and a fraud, he still gets airtime, and, unlike the bloke in the pub, who might just be spouting their own opinion, this piece of work is piggybacking on the notoriety of the case to garner some column inches, remain in the public eye, and ultimately make some money out of it. Thats what turns my stomach.

[birdie1971]

Jno - “... Actually, I'm not really sharing the hate of Acorah. He's as entitled to his views on the girl's disappearance as anyone else, and he's entitled to state them. Everyone has views on the subject...”

Not all of us have the ability to get our opinions into the mainstream media. If we did, I suspect that most of us would be a little more cautious with what we say, particularly when it comes to the abduction and possible murder of small children.

Acorah has crossed that line by using someone else's real tragedy as a vehicle to promote himself.

[jno]

birdie, yes, I have twice criticised the newspapers on this thread for giving his views publicity. He's entitled to air his own views. But newspapers don't have to air the views of others if they don't want to.

[ludwig]

They're both at fault. He's 'airing his views' (telling his lies actually) in an interview with the paper, so he knows they're going to print them. It's not a private conversation with the journalist.
They could still decide to edit that out on grounds of taste and decency, but choose not to.

I'm not sure about the Telegraphs reporting either. They say..

//He rose to fame on “Most Haunted”, where he would communicate with spirits, before moving on to present “Derek Acorah’s Ghost Towns”. //

Surely the words 'allegedly' or 'pretend to' should be inserted between 'would' and 'communicate' for this to be accurate.

[birdie1971]

Mike - “...someone else knows the meaning of the word "egregious". I thought that it was my sole prerogative. Birdie must have done Latin at school...”

Actually, no. I went to a local comprehensive school and studied the national curriculum of the time; ergo we didn't concentrate very much on the classics (eg. Latin).

In actual fact, Philtaz was entirely accurate – I first heard the word in the sketch from 'The League Of Gentlemen' (one of my all time favourite shows) and subsequently gleaned its meaning.

[FredPuli43]

Latin is overrated, here anyway. 'Egregius' means 'distinguished, eminent, outstanding' and was applied only to people of high rank or status; it's derived from words meaning 'out of the herd'; in Latin !