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Joe Power Claim Exposed

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Some of you may remember that Joe Power, late of the Lennon seance fiasco, and who also recently gave 'information' naming the murderer of teenage model Sally Anne Bowman also lays claim to having provided vital information to police which helped them find the dismembered remains of Lynsey Quy back in 2000. Power includes various sympathetic press reports on this web site although no official endorsements from the police or familiy involved. http://www.joepower.co.uk/articles.asp

Its a significant claim for two reasons:

- That this, if true, would represent the first ever instance of a psychic being responsible for providing information of such calibre and value as to lead police directly to the location of vital evidence.

- That Power has based his career upon this claim ever since.

Being a curious sort I contacted Merseyside Police to check the validity of Power's claim saying

Dear Sir,

I have been intrigued by the UK television series on Channel Five, entitled ‘Britain’s Psychic Challenge’ which asserted that police forces routinely use such ‘psychics’ to assist in solving crimes.

Recently, I came across the web site of psychic medium profiler Joe Power that includes several newspaper articles covering his assistance provided in various murder investigations.

From these articles it would appear, that Mr. Power has assisted Merseyside Police during their investigations into the murder of Lynsey Quy who apparently disappeared in 1998. The articles in question can be found at http://www.joe-power.com/articles.asp


In particular, I would be glad to know whether Mr. Power provided any information, which led directly to the discovery of Mrs. Quy’s
body. Can you please tell me whether her discovery was due to information provided by Mr. Power?
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Only to receive this emphatic response from Det. Supt. Geoff Sloan, senior investigating officer in the Lynsey Quy enquiry.

“I wish to state, categorically, that as the Senior Investigating Officer on the Lyndsey Quy murder, I made a policy decision not to use psychics on the investigation. Joe Power has allegedly made claims that he assisted the enquiry but this is not the case.”
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To clarify matters further I wrote to Claudine Hope, Power's manager requesting the removal of material from his web site suggesting his involvement in the Lynsey Quy case which she replied

“Thank you for your email and concern about the Lynsey Quy case. Joe Power did how ever make a statement in the Southport Police station where he spoke with a women officer who gave Joe a receipt for the statement made.”
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If true this confirms what we've already suspected for a long time - that an ambitious psychic has only to make some sort of statement to the police however vague to ensure that they can later claim, albeit in a technical sense, that they have assisted the police.

I'll be posting an article on this over at The Skeptic Express very shortly.

Unfortunately still no news from Sussex police regarding his claims concerning the Sarah Payne case although his claims over recent years regarding the Helen McCourt case have come to nought. Despite pronouncements from Power Helen is still missing after 18 years.
 
Great investigation work! Please keep us updated as you continue to expose this fraud.
 
ha, i commented in another thread about this sort of thing- watching "psychic detectives" here in the states i am amazed at how they present psychic input on police cases as so accurate and crucial and i have often wondered what the "Real" story is, because, if it really happened the way they usually present it, it would be pretty easy for the psychic(s) featured to win the million dollar prize. in other words, i knew the shows are full of it, haha
 
In "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," Mark Twin describes a scene where the title character (a 19th-century engineer) comes across a village where a con man is making a comfortable living by claiming to have second sight and describing in great detail things happening hundreds of miles away. The engineer is amazed that no one doubts this claim or even tries to test it in the simplest manner. He stands between the con artist and the crowd and asks the crook to describe how many fingers he is holding up behind his back.*

Here we are in the 21st century and whole villages of people are credulous enough to believe this "psychic" without even thinking to ask the police involved in a case this crook claims to solve. Now I understand Twain's lament when he said, "There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce."

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* The "psychic" gets out of it by saying he can observe only royalty. Twain then catches him by using his knowledge of the approach of the royal court to test the "psychic" who fails miserable in front of the town folk who then run him out of town on a rail. There should be more of that - more running psychics out of town on a rail.
 
phaedra, you are a hero! Good work!

I hope you have downloaded copies of the articles on Power's site which contain his claims should notoriety of his lies reach a point where he removes them from his site, and he chugs merrily along conducting his business like nothing was ever amiss.
 
phaedra said:
Thanks for the advice Luke T - I'll do that. :)
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Do it quickly. When Elizabeth Smart was found alive, PsiTech removed several pages from their website within hours.

They had remote viewed Smart's disappearance and predicted she was dead, and had several remote viewing drawings of where her body was, and had reports where they had made regular nuisances of themselves trying to find her body. Fortunately, Claus and I anticipated their doing that, and we downloaded them all, including drawings and photos, before they were removed.

Move fast.
 
I had previously contacted Merseyside police and Claudine Hope,but got no replies! Bah!
Well done Phaedra.Making a statement is akin to solving murders is it now?
Off topic,still no further replies from Radio Wave re: Diane Lazarus.
 
A different subject, but did anyone listen to Audiomartini's show this week with "psychic" Carla Baron? Rick Wood asked her about her claims to have helped police investigations. When the verbal maneuvering was finished, Baron could not name a single case in which her psychic abilities had named a murderer, or located a missing body.

She did, however, equivocate by saying that her psychic and remove viewing powers can best assist police by getting cold cases "kick started."

There is a student from Ohio State named Brian Schaffer who has been missing from the university for two months. No trace of his whereabouts - no clues as to his sudden disappearance. A few days ago, another student named Hayashi - also from Ohio State - disappeared, but showed up yesterday in Tennessee claiming he was kidnapped. He's now been charged with filing a false police report.

That didn't stop local psychics from besieging the local news channels with clues as to the location of Hayashi's body, and one from stating that a serial killer was stalking men on the Ohio State campus, and Schaffer and Hayashi were being held in captivity by him.

There will be no repercussions for this false information, and no member of the media will hold these fools accountable for their nonsense. Sometimes, taking woos out and shooting them doesn't seem effective enough.
 
Psychics (pah) who use the example of 'having helped police' or 'solved' cases when it comes to missing and murdered people are nothing more than scum for publicising themselves in order to make money by doing readings etc.

As long as they are in the limelight no ones feelings matter.

I have not time for them.
 
Calling all Canadian Posters

Joe Power's claims regarding the Lynsey Quy enquiry are featured in one episode of 'Psychic Investigators' on WNetwork later this month.

As I'm in the UK I was wondering if anyone could possibly forward a tape of the show to me. The episode details are as follows:


May 31, 2006 - 11:30 PM
S1, Episode #003 Lynsey Quy
Lynsey Quy a young mother and wife mysteriously vanishes on Christmas day, her husband reports her missing, the police start their search. Psychic Joe Power has a nightmarish vision of a woman brutally murdered, and he‘s convinced it’s Lynsey contacting him beyond the grave, seeking help.
http://www.wnetwork.com/tv_shows/shows/psychic_investigators/fullschedule.asp
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I have asked WNetwork for their help but so far with no luck.

With all thanks......:)
 
westphalia said:
There is a student from Ohio State named Brian Schaffer who has been missing from the university for two months. No trace of his whereabouts - no clues as to his sudden disappearance. A few days ago, another student named Hayashi - also from Ohio State - disappeared, but showed up yesterday in Tennessee claiming he was kidnapped. He's now been charged with filing a false police report.
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I wonder how come psychics can't be charged the same way?
 
Phaedra I have contacted a cyber friend in Canada who may be able to help with the prog.Id like to see it also.
 
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