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 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am
lone
Did you get my email yesterday?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Salomon ES
March 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am
160 - goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks
March 13th, 2008 at 11:18 am
155 - but some people find out the hard way!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
hey there just_me hoooooooooooooooowwwwww youuuuuuuuu doiiiiin
March 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
hhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeBRANDON
March 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
lol, hi Lone
March 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
139 catkidd
The McCanns challenges of the DNA evidence came early on - when the FSS results were presumably still unknown. Not knowing what could come out of these analysis, the McCanns took the safe route of preparing defence.
You may have noticed that recently there’s been a relative silence regarding DNA evidence. Could that suggest that they now know that it’s not conclusive?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
You never say hellllllllllooooooooooo brandon anymore
March 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
150 - and thats nothing to do with snowdonia!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
150
just_me Says:
March 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
pigs cannot fly!
They can if you chuck em hard enough
March 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
141
Ferdinand
Oh!
I see , we are also blind
Don’t even have the internet as an excuse to our ignorance
Do you think the leaks are only from the P.J.?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Oh I don’t know. I got on a plane once…
March 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Hello
March 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
pigs cannot fly!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
BF - Wouldn’t you think that the Express Newspaper group would have their own lawyers and would know whether they were printing potentially defamatory material. It is no secret that the McC were on a sue hunt. They surely wouldn’t be that naive would they?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Hello baby!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
unless the goans get there first of course !
March 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
1st?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Just_me - We’d like the same thing. I was merely saying what i thought was likely
March 13th, 2008 at 11:12 am
128 just_me Says:
“I’d rather they were charged with neglect if nothing else. At least it will set an example at the very least!”
It would indeed be unprecedented.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:12 am
“Trouble is Gerry will get of scott free.”
Is that a pun?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:12 am
138
val
I have no idea, maybe a criminal psychologist might be able to enligten us!
Must check Pat Brownes site to see if shs mentioned anything lately!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:10 am
127 can’t say no Says:
“But do you want people to believe ,that bothe the P.J. and the Brits police are working in this case as “NO abduction” only for fun ?? ”
I have no idea what they are working on actually.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:10 am
CSN
I wouldn’t want to mislead you or to give anyone false hopes. The letter I have is from an opposition MP and is very upbeat.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:09 am
salomon e s; if the dna is inconclusive why are the mccanns fighting the manner of which it was collected.siting possible contamination by tech that picked car up for testing,as he was not suited up,
March 13th, 2008 at 11:09 am
129 Brandon Flours
Admittedly, the Express was the most prolific in reporting on Madeleine, but I read the
other day that CM was trying to play down any prospective Law Suit “we are only
considering” legal action and in talks with the Lawyers.
Think it could be another “diversionary tactic”, in view of the expected interviews?
With all due respect any parent by now would after 10 months have to consider their
child”s chance of being alive would be minimal. Therefore, why object to the renewed
search in the Dam if it brought closure?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:08 am
A Z
Where do you think Mr Murat comes in to all this?
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I have no idea
But why were the Brits politicos so keen to crucify him ?
And as you i know he was a friend of the tapas
March 13th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Ferdinand
Red herrings, there have been plenty of those in this case, enough to fill an ocean!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:05 am
133
Abraham Zapruder
As we know in Portugal ,the case was already a political case ,even before the police was called that night.
Mr. Sócrates ,the Heads from the P.J. , … are working to please Comrade Mcbrown