WHEN I meet Henry McKean in The Humble Bean café on Aungier Street in Dublin he has the gait and face of a man who has just been through hell.

The biological father of 13-month-old “Baby David” said today that he was misled into agreeing to give up his son to American pop diva Madonna.

Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie have jetted out of Malawi after gaining preliminary custody of a one-year-old boy they want to adopt in an apparently streamlined procedure that sparked criticism from a child protection organisation.