Madeleine McCann And Shannon Matthews: Pets And Parents, The Sun Raises And A Disco
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann and Shannon Matthews
DAILY MIRROR: “McCanns diver fury”
Always “fury”.
Kate and Gerry McCann reacted with fury yesterday after divers began a second search of a reservoir for Madeleine’s body.
The couple told friends the search - funded by a Portuguese lawyer who they claim is a “fantasist” seeking publicity - is a distraction from the hunt.
Marcos Aragao Correia claims crime contacts told him she was killed and left in the lake two days after going missing.
Says a McCann “source”: “There’s no evidence Madeleine is in that reservoir. They believe she is alive and are concentrating on finding her.”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Divers search remote Algarve lake for Maddy.”
Says Mr Aragao: “If I was Madeleine’s parents, I’d want to be helped. It may not be the outcome they want if I find Madeleine, but it’s important for them that they find out what happened to her and recover her body if she is dead. There may be genetic evidence on the corpse that could help the police discover who killed her.”
Indeed. Any more clues? Can the paper help?
A Portuguese lorry driver told Metodo 3 he saw the German girlfriend of Madeleine suspect Robert Murat handing over a child in a blanket to a mystery man in Silves, a five-minute drive from the reservoir, on May 5 last year.
Michaela Walczuch has claimed she is being framed to protect the McCanns and denied any involvement in their daughter’s disappearance. She has never been made an official suspect and has only ever been quizzed as a witness.
So why mention it?
THE SUN: “Stepfather is innocent says Shannon’s dad”
A picture of Craig Meehan, Shannon’s stepfather
Says he: “I’ve never hit Karen (Shannon’s mother) or any of the children. We play about, as you do, but have a brilliant relationship.”
Says Shannon’s father Leon Rose: “I don’t believe it. “I’m horrified anyone would suggest that. They got on really well. I was not around for some years and he has been a real dad to her. If there had been any problems I am sure she would have told me.”
What of mum? “Karen, meanwhile, has told how Shannon’s pet dog Scania is pining for her. She said: ‘Scania won’t keep still.’”
Watching the parents. Watching the family. Watching the pets.
DAILY MIRROR: “I’VE TOLD THE KIDS SHANNON’S GONE AWAY ON HOLIDAY.”
A friend said: “Every time little Courtney sees a picture of Shannon in the paper or on the TV she points at it and says her sister’s name. Karen can’t bear the thought of telling her Shannon has disappeared so she has said she’s on holiday. “She has got so much to worry about already that she just can’t risk upsetting Courtney.”
Watching the parents. Watching the family. Watching the children.
Yesterday, Karen tried going in to Shannon’s bedroom for the first time since the nine-year-old went missing three weeks ago after a school swimming trip in Dewsbury, West Yorks. But she was overcome with emotion.
We are watching the parents. Watching the family. Looking through windows. Looking through walls.
An anonymous donor has given £10,000 to the appeal to find her.
DAILY EXPRESS: “SHANNON REWARD INCREASED TO £50,000”
The Sun has up its reward from £20,000 - to £50,000. But if a reward of £2.5million has not been not enough to find Madeleine McCann, what good is $50,000?
How is the reward amount set? Is consideration given to the victim’s social status, the competition for headlines, exchange rates?
Leon Rose, Shannon’s father: “No-one can imagine the agonies we are going through. She is a wonderful daughter and we need her home. We are desperate to have her back and we thank The Sun for helping.”
An offer from the heart? Or a hollow offer, a PR-induced offer to get the Sun mentioned?
DEWSBURY REPORTER: “SHANNON MATTHEWS LATEST”
4.07pm - A family disco is being held to raise funds for the Shannon Matthews appeal. It will be on Thursday March 13 from 7pm to 10pm at Staincliffe Cricket Club.
A disco for a missing child. Her face at the disco. Her face on the wall.
2.23pm - A sponsored walk to raise money for the Shannon Matthews appeal has been announced. It will begin at 6pm tomorrow (Tuesday) at Moorside Road.
Posted: 11th, March 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (980) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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March 11th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Whats worse leaving your 3 year old babysitting in a foreign country with doors unlocked and no light on while you have dinner?
Or leaving your 15 year old with her boyfriend in a foriegn country, while you take your other kids visiting around the rest of the country?
Or letting your 9 year old come home from school but not report it for 3 hours?
March 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Julie
You are a troll
March 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
471 COCO
every single report in the media is speculative so all your shi*e go to sky news, gmtv, mc cann files is pure tripe, unless you have a valid statement from the PJ, FSS or the UK Police nothing is definite,
and Jo, McCann supporter has as much right to be here just as you do
March 11th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Darn it!!! I tried!!! I’ve been called everything EXCEPT a troll
March 11th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
coco, I used the polite spelling, but you obviously recognised yourself, well done!!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
No your names to pretty
March 11th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Do I qualify for troll status yet
March 11th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Oh very much so BF
March 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
477
Dave Says:
March 11th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
475 BF - I can well believe that…
________________
I dont get you?
March 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Julie
Are you pleased with yourself now
???
March 11th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
GANDOLF: Your post was not very witty. In fact it was half-witted as usual. I don’t recall having been given status on Anorak anyhow. I would love to see loads of people back you up on my status of being a fuckwit which you cannot even spell.
I think that you are actually an arse-wipe and dick-wipe wrapped closely together but being a lady I would never have mentioned it. It is very sad to somebody with no literary or other merits have to resort to toilet humour in order to have a dig. You must be soiling your trousers back and front with merriment and mirth at your slimy self.
Why don’t you shut the f*ck up and go and tidy your bedroom! Now! You half-witted bollock off a hillock.
BTW Yes I do still piss in the sink! How did you know that?
Administrator: I’m tempted to ask for the photograph….but frightened I may get it.-agw
March 11th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
let’s review the situation:
1) the macc don’t have the least idea of where Madeleine, dead or alive, could be
2) A generous voluntary pay a group of divers to look for Madeleine in a reservoir
3) the mcc react with FURY
????????
If they don’t know what happened with their dauther, why the fury?
Because they know what happened, and what didn’t happened
go to luch
syalater
March 11th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
“Finally, can you cast your mind back to the days that followed the news of Shannon’s disappearance. Do you have a family member, partner, close associate or neighbour who appears to have been behaving out of the ordinary or who you now think was acting unusually in any way at all?”
Grandma, grandad and uncle spring to mind!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
486
just_me Says:
March 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Lone - im fine thanx, good to see you back. havent made any good pics lately, I need to think of a good theme
howabout socks and reservoirs!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Lone - im fine thanx, good to see you back. havent made any good pics lately, I need to think of a good theme
March 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
465
a macnnnnnnchildneglectorsuppporter
Why do you keep posting here?
Is this because you DO like the posters and find them funny and intelligent (NOT me tho”) and you are not as bored as if you were on a promcFools blog?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I’m crap on this blackberry coz my nails are too long so will come back on v late.
Hello to Totje if you come on here today. It would be fabulous if we can all help get the link I want onto this thread. Thanks to everybody who has helped me today. Including Gandolf because I have remembered why I give Anorak a wide-berth for days on end.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
470
brandon flours Says:
March 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I hope you feel better very soon
Thanks Brandon
Doesn’t look like i’ve missed an awful lot skim reading back…
March 11th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
465…a McCann Supporter
Ah….another little tin soldier marching who, quite wrongly, thinks
he’s/she’s the only one in step.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
469
just_me Says:
March 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
hello just me - how are you? Still coming up with the funny pics???
March 11th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
476
ben
++++
Thanks ben
March 11th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
coco, thank you for those kind words, halfwit methinks is better than your status of fukwit, do you still piss in the sink.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I can’t get radio 2 at work
March 11th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
475 BF - I can well believe that…
March 11th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
discussion on why shannon as not received as much attention as madeleine on radio 2-
thought id let you all know!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
lone
The 1000s of emails werent all mine
March 11th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Yep I am…
And do it now!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Ahhh the love birds are back together
March 11th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Batman
March 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
A McCann Supporter: Go to mccannfiles.com, sky news, gmtv, anywhere on the web and you will see the pearls dropping from the jaws of the Clan.
Philly the frilly filly with the bulging eyes made me not crunch my f*cking coco-pops one morning because she put me off my breakfast spluttering away, telling us what KM had told her first-hand. So unless you are a really really good mate I would wind your neck in on here because we are not blind men on galloping horses on Anorak.
But we know a lot of blind men on galloping horses and they think you are a half-wit! So there!