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.”
Posted: 12th, March 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (255) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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March 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
If it is a Robert Black-style killer, the police will need to be looking far beyond Yorkshire. All his victims were left many, many miles from where they were taken.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Or are they implying Shannon is a Yorkshire Ripper type missing person???
Not the best comparison is it - missing child/serial killer we’re looking for.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I wonder if the press have had any hints from the police that this is a Robert Black style situation rather than a haven’t-a-clue-McCann style situation?
It’s odd to start talking about the Ripper when they were following the class angle - or is it to cover-up the awkward class issue???
March 12th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Because there is no mystery as to who is at fault there
March 12th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Because you can’t find them alive
March 12th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
5 children were reportedly killed by the combined US/Iraq security forces in a scrap with shia militia in Iraq yesterday.
How come you’re not all up in arms about that?
March 12th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Oh, come on. Are we all supposed to look for a missing child? I’m reading a book by David Peace - the last part of the West Riding Trilogy. It is about missing children, and when children go missing. It is nothing short of excellent. Read it. Gory. But great…
March 12th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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Loraine
I would but i’m in Spain….whats youre excuse for sitting here hammering me instead of looking for Shannon?
March 12th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
This is a grim story. The talk of the Ripper equips it with a stench that turns the stomach…
The mother is bereft.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
“We have talked with one or two companies and have a number of proposals and we are moving forward with those proposals. It is more than likely it would be with ITV at this stage. We are looking at a long form documentary surrounding some of the wider issues…”
I can imagine that one or two companies McCanns have talked to may operate on the wilder shores of pornography, but I doubt that any reputable organization will touch them with a bargepole.
ITV will not commit themselves to a ‘long form’ documentary on child abuse and neglect or ‘disappearance’ featuring people who are suspected of just such crimes, if not worse.
ITV will not commit to a production schedule over several months, and to an investment of substantial proportions, and weave their documentary around the story of the McCanns, when that story is very far from having plumbed its final depths of accusation, arrest, deportation, criminal trial and imprisonment.
ITV, for whatever projected financial gain or feel-good factor, will not give that particular hostage to fortune. If opportunistic or ethically-deficient programme-makers have entered into tentative discussion with McCanns they will have done so at their own peril.
ITV understands their prospective audience perfectly able to distinguish between what happens to other missing children, and what happened to Madeleine McCann.
relaw0128
March 12th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
How can you say that? Sit and imagine for a second how you would feel in Karens shoes. She is out of her mind with worry, stop being so nasty and get out there and help find that beautiful 9 year old little girl.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
How can shannons mum say that the abductor was someone she knew? Is this another repeat of what the McCanns think just to make headlines?
March 12th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Damn.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
1st