Shannon Matthews: Craig Meehan, Vigilantes And Blaming New Labour
SHANNON Watch: Anorak’s look at the case of Shannon Matthews in the media
DAILY STAR (front page): “SHANNON MUM DUMPS LOVER”
THE mum of Shannon Matthews ditched her lover yesterday as he appeared in court accused of possessing porn pictures of children as young as four. But she has now broken off her four-year relationship with the 22-year-old supermarket fishmonger, saying she “didn’t want to be part of his life”.
Karen acted after he appeared in court on 11 charges of possessing 130 indecent images of youngsters. Fourteen of the pictures were said to show adults having sex with children as young as 11. Others showed children aged just four performing sex acts.
Is Craig Meehan innocent?
Says one local: “He wouldn’t last a minute. People on this estate act first and ask questions later. He may be innocent, but these folk won’t wait for a judge and jury. They feel betrayed and are very angry.”
TIMES: “Shannon Matthews: Craig Meehan remanded in custody”
The partner of Shannon Matthews’s mother was remanded in custody charged with possessing 140 pornographic images of children on two computers.
Or 130 images? Meehan is a “supermarket fishmonger”. Such are the facts.
THE SUN: “I want nothing to do with him”
Meehan “was remanded in custody for his own safety”. Karen Matthews is on “suicide watch and had ended their relationship after nearly five years”.
Her pal Petra Jamieson, 30, said: “Karen has said she no longer wants to be part of Craig’s life. She hasn’t told him face to face, but I think he’ll assume that after what’s gone on. I can’t begin to imagine what’s going on in Karen’s head. She must feel sick and disgusted.”
Another pal said: “Karen wants nothing more to do with Craig. Whatever happens he’ll be looking for a new address. She asked people to clear his stuff out of her house.”
DAILY MAIL: “Shannon’s siblings are looked after by social workers”
The mother of Shannon Matthews was said to be distraught last night after it emerged that three of her other children are being looked after by social services.
Karen Matthews, 32, who has seven children by five different fathers, was believed to be staying in a “safe house” after the disclosure. “She’s absolutely devastated,” a friend said yesterday.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: “They promised New Jerusalem - they’ve delivered Little Britain”
Police have arrested Craig Meehan, the Little Britain lookalike who lived with the mother of Shannon Matthews. He is described as Shannon’s “stepfather”.
In what sense would that be, then?Meehan, 22, isn’t married to Karen Matthews. By no stretch of the imagination is he anyone’s “stepfather”. At best, he is a live-in lodger who sleeps with Shannon’s mum.
But what of the case against him?
I make no comment on the charges he is facing after police allegedly found pornographic images on his computer. But I doubt whether Shannon considered him her “stepfather” despite the “tickle fights” they were said to have “enjoyed” before she disappeared.
No comment. More of a nudget and a wink.
If Shannon liked living with Meehan and her mother so much, she wouldn’t have yearned to move in with her biological father. Meehan’s uncle has been charged with kidnapping Shannon. I’m assuming it’s his real uncle, but these days you never can be sure. Family is such a loose concept on these sink estates. Karen Matthews, 32, has seven children aged between 11 and two by five different fathers. Meehan is the father of one of them. She even calls two of them “the twins” because, although they are not the same age, they at least have the same dad.
But what of the family?
One of the curious features of such “communities” is that while they often display callous indifference towards their children, they are also capable of exhibiting the most ghastly sentimentality - especially when there’s a suspected “peed-io-file” on the manor, or something happens to one of their bay-bees. The lynch mob is never far from the surface when it comes to hunting down the local “nonce”.
Not that Littlejohn is offering any comment on the case against Meehan:
At the moment, neighbours “can’t believe” that Craig Meehan is guilty of anything. He must have been fitted up, naturally.That will be for a court to decide. But if he’s found guilty, don’t be surprised if these same neighbours now professing their shock and support, decide to torch his house.
Anyone it’s the fault of the Government. Really it is:
Labour decided long ago that the white working classes were no longer worth the effort.
Everyone has an agenda…
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April 7th, 2008 at 2:02 am
What a treat to read that the police are examining phone records re the possibility of unnamed people may have had in mind - “getting money from the media”. So glad the authorities are on a trail, IMO maybe. Also, Shannon does not want to go home. Good.
If it si found that the “abduction” was a way of making money, this should help stop same thing happening in the future.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:00 am
What a treat to read that the police are examining phone records re the possibility of unnamed people may have had in mind - “getting money from the media”. So glad the authorities are on a trail, IMO maybe. Also, Shannon does not want to go home. Good.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Report on the midnight news that Michael Donovan has attempted suicide.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:03 am
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D Robison Says:
April 6th, 2008 at 8:52 am
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…as do I when required to state my nationality, I am English not “White British” and who wants to be associated with the eight “British” people recently imprisoned for the plane bomb plots ??
April 6th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Agree whole-heartedly with Richard Littlejohn’s piece. A good read for people who are sick of the way this country is going. Time to bring back some old-fashioned family values. Though I believe the divorce rate is far too high and some marriages should be fought for, divorce seems extremely respectable compared to some types of so called families these. The Government needs to change things. Sorting out my Tax Credits application this week, I had to reprimand them for calling my husband of 15 years my “partner” though they knew he was because they had the paperwork. The lady informed me that is how they have to refer to couples. And as for my parents being referred to similarly - they have been married 56 years, it’s disgraceful but I take a leaf out of my dad’s book and cross out the word partner on forms.
April 5th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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Mic Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
‘apoplexy’? By ‘eck! You were lucky…we couldn’t afford apoplexy. We ‘ad to make do wi’ blind rage.
Them were t’ days.
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Well we used to be posh but now I think we’d only be able to afford “fookin’ mental” …!!
April 5th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
‘apoplexy’? By ‘eck! You were lucky…we couldn’t afford apoplexy. We ‘ad to make do wi’ blind rage.
Them were t’ days.
April 5th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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firestar Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
no idea why i keep putting apostrophes in any word with an ’s’ in it by the way, before anyone asks
””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
….as if anyone would !!
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So let’s reform the benefits system for all council estates.
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Is this sarcasm ? Benefits should only be for those who cannot possibly work, by reason of physical disability or some other totally genuine reason, but then - have you ever been to a “Remploy” establishment ?? Pensions as I understood it were paid to people who have worked and paid into the taxes pot to pay for said pensions, or that they had contributed to privately, not just somehow miraculously just “there ” for the asking …and don’t get me started on that bevause I can’t draw one, habving spent all my life raising five kids, and then a Grandson, mostly on my own and not paying the “voluntary contributions” because for the most part, I was not in employment. The powers-that-be said I should have saved …out of what ?? there were times when I only ate what the kids left, if anything, because we were so hard up and the same Government keeps telling us that people aren’t saving enough for their old age …how can they when they are taxed to the hilt and can barely make ends meet let alone SAVE anything !! What planet do these morons live on ? oh ….sorry , forgot, it’s the one where Tony Blair gets us to pay his TV licence etc !! I daren’t read any more about the “expenses” those thieving bastards claim as I would have apoplexy !!
April 5th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
no idea why i keep putting apostrophes in any word with an ’s’ in it by the way, before anyone asks.
April 5th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
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Ann Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
“Benefits” system is in melt-down, because if someone doesn’t soon get some of these young wasters out to work and paying taxes, there will be no pot of money from which to pay those who genuinely need Benefits.
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Especially people who had all their university education for free, and also got paid in the form of a grant to be educated.
The same people that had all the best years of the final salary pension schemes before they closed them to the youngsters.
How will we pay for these old peoples pensions and winter fuel allowances and bus passes etc if the working class kid’s won’t get a job?
Perhaps we should import labour from eastern europe, now that we’ve closed all the industry like pits and steelworks that these kid’s used to go to work in, just to make sure that any job’s we can force them into will make them respect society, and their elders that have ruined it for the young.
At least when this lot are older they’ll only have themselves to blame when there’s no money in the pot for THEIR pensions and bus passes.
Still, it won’t really matter, as they won’t be getting old anyway because we fucked up the planet for them as well.
So let’s reform the benefits system for all council estates.
That way we can all feel nice and cosy about it when we see them starving on their front steps out of the bus windows while we’re having our free ride.
Shame we’re making today’s kids pay for it.
April 5th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I think it is not so much the subject of Craig Meehan - whose face in the above picture appears not dissimilar to Jabba the Hutt, that is comment-worthy, as the unravelling of all the rest of the family !! such as who they are related to, how and why, how many of them there actually are, and who played what part in the “disappearance ” of Shannon !!
Oh… I forgot the banjos……da-da da da da da da da da, da-da da da da da da …(twang ) …sorry got my sixth finger caught in the strings !!!
April 5th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Quick! Out with the banjos.
April 5th, 2008 at 10:03 am
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Chloe Spain Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Sorry not to be able to contribute with a pun but -just as an aside- is it my imagination or is Amanda Hyett (Meehan’s sister) also married to one of Karen’s brothers?
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Sounds more like “Deliverance” with each passing revelation….!!!
April 5th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Sorry not to be able to contribute with a pun but -just as an aside- is it my imagination or is Amanda Hyett (Meehan’s sister) also married to one of Karen’s brothers?
April 4th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
True, but there is mulch to do about nothing
April 4th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Well there’s no need to sprout on about it!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I’m a vegetarian.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
some of these fish puns are brill, i’m not posting any, i’m being koi
April 4th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Just got back on…
Fantastic fishy puns there folks!
Conger-atulations to all concerned.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Gone too, catch you soon….!! Mods are probably having a chuckle anyway…
April 4th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Ann
Better go, If the Mods see us wasting bandwidth, they’ll grill us. I was just having a laugh for the halibut
April 4th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
23 Julie - I don’t think we can say that “Shannon” has been spared - not just yet.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Apology accepted but next time mullet over a bit before being such a bullhead !! Big smile now !! I could never hake you !!!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
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I’m sorry for my post Ann, that was so rude of me, but it seemed as you you haked me. I oysterknow better
April 4th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
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SpongeBob Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Fuck off Pincher
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???????????? who is this “Pincher” you are telling to go forth and multiply ??
April 4th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Fuck off Pincher
April 4th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
..hook and sinker too Sponge Bob ???
April 4th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Aww Ann, you stole my line..
April 4th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Alright….so we’ve allgot our “Fish of the British Isles ” books out and poring over them to see who can come up with the next load of pollacks …oh…and doesn’t Craig Meehan look like a guppy to you ???
April 4th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
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SpongeBob Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
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Ann
Fuck it, I see I’m going to have to flax my mussels. You will flounder for your crab post, eel make sure of it
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I hate to be rudd but that’s a bit ruffe !! Minnow who you are !! Have to go I smelt the char burning…..har !! har!!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Mic
you are a snook in the grass