Shannon Matthews: Ripper Yarn And Not In McCanns’ Class
SHANNON Watch: Anorak’s look at Shannon Matthews in the media
DAILY MIRROR: “Hunt for Shannon Matthews is the biggest since the Yorkshire Ripper”
Is it?
The search is the biggest since the one for Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe who murdered 13 women in the 70s and 80s.
DAILY STAR (front page): “SHANNON: BIGGEST MANHUNT SINCE RIPPER”
DAILY EXPRESS: “SHANNON: HUNT IS ON SCALE OF RIPPER”
Chief Inspector Graham Armitage said: “It’s certainly the biggest missing persons inquiry since the Yorkshire Ripper, which I also worked on.”
Ripper. Ripper. Ripper. Is this a new context to place the disappearance of a child in? Is comparison with Madeleine McCann no longer apt?
DAILY MAIL: “Someone I know abducted missing Shannon just to hurt me, says mother”
Her comments came as her partner drew a sharp line between Shannon’s family and the parents of missing Madeleine McCann.
Craig Meehan, said: “It’s two families from two different backgrounds which shouldn’t really get compared - basically, a poor family and a rich family.”
Mr Meehan, 22, went on: “To me, they [the McCanns] are like celebrities in other people’s eyes. They’ve got money, they know celebrities and all that, so they can afford to do everything they do, everything they can.
“We’re trying to do what we can with the money we’ve got, with the resources we’ve got.”
It’s the biggest manhunt since The Yorkshire Ripper. Or is a private detective firm now also required?
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Shannon Matthews ‘abducted to hurt mother’”
Asked if she thought the abductor was someone she knew, Mrs Matthews, a mother of seven, said: “It seems that way because there’s no trace of her at all. There’s no trace of her swimming costume, her towel or anything like that that she’s taken with her.”
Mrs Matthews told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme she believed the reason someone had taken her daughter was to get at her.
Asked why someone would do it, Mrs Matthews replied: “Just to hurt me, really.”
When pressed on who might be behind the abduction, she said: “No idea at all. All my friends and family have all been checked and there are no sightings of her things there at all.”
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March 13th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
i take it im alone in the dark
March 13th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
talk to you later will be back about 9 drop in
March 13th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
you’d be more than welcome…
I have to go now. Catch you later or tomorrow…
March 13th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
i head for london alot usually kensington not due to go till after i get back from the states end of may,i might hold you to that drink
March 13th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
well when you pass through London i’ll have a drink while you smoke
March 13th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
well i smoke enough for two anyway and i drink once maybe twice a year ,and travel alot
March 13th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Nothing. Draw the line at smoking and drugs. All is else is up for grabs…
March 13th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
what else do you not do?
March 13th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
trouble is, i don’t smoke!
March 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
yeah,they were the days.hope im not done with them just yet,kinda nice
March 13th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
oh right.
a couple of middle aged people acting like naughty school children - lurling in the lockers for a crafty fag…
March 13th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
in not far behind you in age then
March 13th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
240 - yes the latter.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
there are no hiding places…
March 13th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
are we hideing from someone
March 13th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
ill take it if your drinking single malt your what late thirties early fourties
March 13th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
yeah - are we the equivalent of lurking in the lockers?
March 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
reminds me of school and doing something you shouldnt be doing,am i bad
March 13th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
no party. It is just me and you again methinks.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
am i missing a party lads
March 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Val - I wish
March 13th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Ooh there is a record to chase?
March 13th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
232 dcb
Hi there , saw you had posted and came across to tell you everyone is on the other thread.
I reckon our Dave is a terrible flirt and has the girls eating out of his hand!!!!!!
Hope it”s not going to be another RR & C situation, .
March 13th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Brandon - wow - I think Dave is going to break your number of posts record on the other thread
March 13th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
talk later
March 13th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
we’ll have to see then
Off to a meeting. Back in 30 mins…
March 13th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
a bottle or two at the end of everyday,id be carted off for pumping out after a bottle
March 13th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
romanian merlot well its ok in a push much rather a rotheschild
March 13th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I love a pinot noir or a merlot.
I quite like a bottle or two of red at the end of the day…
March 13th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
guinness i personally dont know how anyone drinks it,bloody rotten,wine now thats different altogether i enjoy a good red
March 13th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
a single malt
Guinness