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.
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March 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Jo
The abuse seems to be two-way traffic don’tr you think?
March 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
554
markskidd
XXXXX
March 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
547 Supporter
You need to be hung drawn and quartered if you think there is a difference between that half wits idea of parenting and the McConns!
IMO both should be locked up for good
BUT FOR THEIR ACTIONS BOTH SCARLET AND MADELEINE WOULD BE HERE TO TELL THE TALE!
Get a grip you lunatic Grrrr
March 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
554
markskidd
Can you believe their cheek!!!!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
BF - too many QPR fans…
March 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
541
Matt
They are just bored out of their witts (if any)
M & ADm
I am rather fed up to have to bear their insults posts after posts especially towards Coco
As I say yes they have the right to be here but I do disagree and strongly with insults.
Garth has been really offensive to me with my supposed drinking and raving about my poor health.Read the posts
Are you going to put a stop to what I consider an abuse?
Thank you
March 11th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
547
IMO
A mother who leaves 3 toddlers alone in a foriegn place with open doors in the dark should be hung drawn and quartered - publicly, to serve as a warning to would be pro-neglect parents
March 11th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
dcb
I live in West London! NO
There are too many nutters
March 11th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
OH MY GOD!!!!! HYPOCRISY
March 11th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
532 Ian
You are correct I will be sick IF and its a big IF the Mccanns had anything to do with the dissaperance of their child, but unlike you and a lot of the posters on this site I have an open mind and am waiting for all the FACTS to be presented rather than go on speculative hearsay from “unnamed sources”
March 11th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Oi you lot stoppppit. You’re going to get me sent to the chill bin, coz I jokingly started all this
PLEASE stop 
March 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
coco, you chose the name of a clown, how fitting.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
544
brandon
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Don’t you tell them to run and scream and make a fuss and draw attention if a strange man approaches them?
March 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I would be very interested to learn of your take on the fact that a British mother took her 15 year old daughter to India, left her in Goa with ‘a man’ whilst she went off seeing sights with others. Her daughter was consequently seen at a night club drunk and full of drugs, later seen being sexually abused by ’someone’ and found murdered on the beach the next morning.
I read yesterday that someone on Anorak posted that they wondered if the British Government would support this mother in ‘her hour of need’.
In my opinion she should be hung drawn and quartered.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
531
A point to add, the Portuguese police ARE NOT COMING to Britain, because their boss says there is NO EVIDENCE .
hmmmm. You’ll have a link to that effect?
March 11th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
534
Cheshire
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There is however a big difference in a 70 year old woman getting old of a child - and a man doing it.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
dcb
I tell my children to stay put and talk to a mother, policeman, security guard, shopkeeper. Never go off with them, draw a crowd and I will find you.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
GANDOLF: If you were a loaf you would be unleven! You are also a half-baked, half-wit. Why are you still chatting bollocks? You are using other people’s words and lines. Invent your own. I am sure that you are boring everybody’s bollocks off as usual with your ad hoc bollocks. You are not educated enough to even try and outwit people on here.
Just leave a post when you have something to say. Read what everybody says to you and you will see that you are an utterly ludicrous excuse for a wizard or a man.
Why not go to evening classes so that you can at least learn how to construct a sentence in such a way that people don’t take the piss out of you. You look more dim-witted by the hour. You are a non-entity.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
539
brandon
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Oh - add assault to it too !
March 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
531…a McCann Supporter
My word….you are going to be a very disappointed little Troll
then.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
coco, who do you think u are? coco fu*kin chanel, go back to painting your chipped nails or getting a fu*kin life!!!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
dcb
grab a witness first
March 11th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
534
Cheshire
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I would hope that i do something similar.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Yep, crucify them - they are responsible - abductor or no abductor.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
526
i-dont-believe-them
Surely we know what we know but the most important of all is the PJ who knows what they have to know.They know very well and nobody cant take this from them
It is a real waste of time to answer them.They have all the rights to be on anorak of course as much as we have all the rights to just skip their stupid comments tailored to wind us up dont you think?
March 11th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
PMSL
March 11th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
My mother (nearly 70 years old) saw a little girl crying in a local supermarket that she had lost her mummy. My mum got hold of her hand and kept saying VERY LOUDLY “lets go and find someone to help you find your mummy”
Its very sad these days when you are worried about what people would think in that situation
btw - not one person stopped my mum and asked what she was doing
March 11th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
529
brandon
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It’s very difficult isn’t it - of course we could say - innocent then no problem. But some poor sod got cruxified on that estate!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
518
Lurker
Frustration? Easily sorted, get their sorry arses back to P{DL to clear up those ‘little misunderstandings’.
You blind supporters are going be pretty sick if the McCanns did dispose of their child’s body after she died in their care aren’t you! Don’t you realise the police found body traces in their hire car! BODY TRACES! Why are you so certain they are ‘whiter than white’ - or are you saying its acceptable that they disposed of the body as it wasn’t their fault and they have already suffered so much? How can you support these suspects?!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
447
Matt. Says:
March 11th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
444…a McCann Supporter
Oh good.
Another very rattled cage.
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Who says I’m rattled. Just stating the facts as they are and have been since 3 May, which some of you seem to forget in your haste to crucify the McCanns.
A point to add, the Portuguese police ARE NOT COMING to Britain, because their boss says there is NO EVIDENCE .