Shannon Matthews: Benefit Fraud And Karen Matthews’ Life For Ten Lag’s Fags
SHANNON WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Shannon Matthews
THE SUN: “Shannon mum’s claims shame”
Karen Matthews, 32 – accused over the abduction of her nine-year-old daughter – told officials she was looking after four of her seven children on her own.
But at the time that Shannon vanished for 24 days in February, she had been living for four years with her supermarket fishmonger boyfriend Craig Meehan, 22. He has been earning around £16,000 a year.
Meehan had bragged at the time of Shannon’s disappearance: “I earn the money. I put the food on the table.”
DAILY STAR: “PRICE ON HEAD OF SHANNON’S MUM - HANDFUL OF FAGS IS PRISON BOUNTY”
£16,000?
SHANNON Matthews’ mum was banged up on a prison’s isolation wing last night after lags put a bounty on her head – of 10 cigarettes.
The promise of the Lambert & Butler fags was enough to have most of the 442 queueing to attack Karen Matthews.
Which mega-bucks lag offered the reward?
DAILY MIRROR: “People of Shannon Matthews’ Dewsbury defend its reputation”
“It has become the town that dare not speak its name.”
Dewsburg.
People outside must shudder at the thought of living in or even visiting Dewsbury in West Yorkshire.
Dewston.
Cancel the summer holidays to Dewsbury, mother. We’ll have t’make do with Disneyland this year.
A barman said yesterday: “I’m ashamed to say I’m from Dewsbury. Now, I say I’m from Leeds instead.
It really is that bad.
Shannon Matthews: Where is she?
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April 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
‘Resident Grandson is the son of my son, not my daughter, and said son has four children by three different mothers…….hmmmmm…boots…foot…other…on ?’
Are you saying that’s OK then?
April 16th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I don’t suppose for one moment i-don’t-believe-them will come back to look at this thread, but just for the record, Resident Grandson is the son of my son, not my daughter, and said son has four children by three different mothers…….hmmmmm…boots…foot…other…on ?
April 14th, 2008 at 10:31 am
I-dont-believe-them - total twat you are!
April 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
In my opinion, he sounds like he’s been shit on in the past by some woman/women. Since he appears to be a nasty piece of work, perhaps the women had their reasons.
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I know what the problem is now !!!!! her name was “Ann”………….!!
April 13th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
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patch Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Ann
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Absolutely !! and thanks, I am a bit stronger than I was last year so it just rolled off the feathers a bit better, you have to feel sorry for him/it though, shouldn’t rise to the bait because he/it seems to “feed” off it, seems to be getting some sort of perverse enjoyment out of it and not really discussing or contributing to the threads in any way so best just ignored…went a bit quiet there for a while though didn’t it ??!!
April 13th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Ann
I saw idbt’s attacks on you last year as well as now. Ignore him. You really don’t need to justify yourself to him.
In my opinion, he sounds like he’s been shit on in the past by some woman/women. Since he appears to be a nasty piece of work, perhaps the women had their reasons.
June and Mods are doing a good job.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
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i-dont-believe-them Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Mods/admin - just a note to you saying sorry if you feel i have gone too far. i don’t know Ann - so it is hardly ‘personal’. you might remember that it was ann (i believe, please correct me if i am wrong) who wrote that she drugged her child (ren) to sleep because she needed the rest. i don’t get into these spats very often, only when hypocrisy rears its ugly head.
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Sorry but I just had to answer this, I did not “drug” my children to sleep, I was given something by the Doctor to help with a super-hyper-active child who was disrupting everybody’s lives and sleep, all the family, not just me. I did not just go out and buy something off the shelf - “Calpol Night-time” or whatever and administer it willy-nilly, - I asked for help. This attitude of yours just goes to show how badly the wrong way of saying things can go. It’s like, I wasn’t fussed when I was told recently I needed to have a lump removed but give it it’s proper name “Coecal Cancer” and …whoa Nelly !!! different connotation altogether. That’s what you do, you make things sound horrendous and you make poster’s jaws drop with your venom.
I have yet to see any post of yours which doesn’t actually attack people in the nastiest possible way, you say things which are bordering on the libellous and actually, I do feel sorry for you. I imagine you looking something like Scrooge, old jacket and mittens, freezing cold room, bent over - not your desk and quill - but your computer and just thinking up what nasty spin you can put on the next person’s post.
Mods and Admin aren’t hypocritical, they are moderating and step in when things go too far which is what you constantly do !! but why ? I thought the idea of these postings was the exchange of ideas and opinions on topical subjects with like-minded participants, not to find “101 Ways to Piss People Off ” or “How to Alienate People who Could be Your Friends”
April 13th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Mods/admin - just a note to you saying sorry if you feel i have gone too far. i don’t know Ann - so it is hardly ‘personal’. you might remember that it was ann (i believe, please correct me if i am wrong) who wrote that she drugged her child (ren) to sleep because she needed the rest. i don’t get into these spats very often, only when hypocrisy rears its ugly head.
A hypocritical attitude towards families is at the heart of the problem with both Shannon and Madeleine - parents who give lip service to loving their children but have a selfish agenda: i think it would be a shame if we let some posters ride on their high horses unquestioned.
keep up the good work!
April 13th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
18 Julie
Thanks for the kind offer, I may take you up on that; mine is getting worn out with overuse.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
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Ann Says:
…nor I imagine, of anyone else’s with an attitude towards women like that !!
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Lol, Ann, I think you’ve hit the nail squarely on the head here!
April 13th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Bravo, Mods.
I am relatively new here, but reading back on the comments, it sounds to me like that man would/could/has put off genuine people with something interesting and valid to say from writing into your blog.
However, if he does come back… come on, sourpuss, I’ll take you on!!!
April 13th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
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Liz727 Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
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Thanks for your support but I do think IDBT needs more than Moderating, he needs counselling !! last word on the subject…..
April 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Mods and Admin
Thanks for that, I cannot imagine what troubles have befallen i-don’t-believe them in his life but he is to be pitied. He seems to “get off” on saying the most dreadful, jaw-dropping stuff and if I hadn’t read your message I would have asked you to do something about him anyway. No - he is not, nor ever has been, to the best of my knowledge, anything like approaching a partner of mine - nor I imagine, of anyone else’s with an attitude towards women like that !!
April 13th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Mods and Admin
To Ann
Please do not respond any further to I- don’t- believe- them, he has no right to sit in judgement over your relationships, I can inly omagine he is not nor ever has been a partner of yours?
To Idon’t- believe- them
Your attacks on Ann are personal and not part of the topic, your posts are being Moderated now.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
33 i-don’t-believe-it
Wrong. Karen never threw her latest man out. She dumped him AFTER he was arrested and in his police custody for child pornography. Up until then she was sticking to him like velcro. Don’t you read the papers?
April 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
i-don’t-believe-them, I don’t believe you and your attitude towards the ladies on here who have put their children first and got rid of their wasters of husbands. These brave women chose to bring their children up alone - not an easy route to take in life - rather than stay with a deadbeat. Respect.
You’re taking this rather personally, aren’t you? Very telling that. I think you are a man about whom some other unfortunate lady has seen sense and booted out of her life, hence your sour attitude towards people on a blog that you don’t even know.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
31 Ann -
of course you have been with the last husband for 18 years - it gets harder to get offers as we get older, doesn’t it? and your grandson who has been living with you since he was 3 - well, we can guess why . . . your daughter (i assume) has learned much from you about stable relationships.
and are you the one who drugged her child to sleep? if not, i apologize.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
29 ann - i’m not saying your relationships weren’t genuine - maybe they were - as long as they lasted. You threw out the men and started fresh when you saw fit - just as Karen as done. You aren’t much different than Karen except you got a piece of paper saying that you were a good person.
April 13th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
By David Paul Have your say(25)
THE mother of Shannon Matthews is thought to be pregnant with her eighth child.
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This should make i-don’t-believe-them happy !! it’s in the Express
April 13th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
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val Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Ann (23)
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…..and yes, I have been very, very happily married to Best Beloved for 18 years and no, we didn’t have any children ….God !! I daren’t !! that would have made FOUR different fathers !! bloody Hell !! ….but we do have Resident Grandson who has lived with us since he was 3 and is now 16 and in that respect, Best Beloved needs a chestful of medals because not only did he take on one wife with previous not-very-careful owners, five step-kids, only one of whom was still at home at that time though, but he also did not pressurise to have any children of his own and has been the best Father anyone could wish for, for a Grandoson that is not even his own blood !! Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it 1-don’t-believe-them
Oh and Val, I have been a member of MENSA since 1993 which just goes to show intelligence and common sense just aren’t one and the same thing !!!!
April 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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val Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Ann (23)
You are obviously an intelligent , articulate woman, just didn”t seem to have the nous
to pick the right partners!!!!!!!!! hope youv”e learned a few lessons and if there is a
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I have just blistered into that pompous as i-don’t-believe-them whom I believe, I had a run-in with once before but thank you for what you said, yes I was very naive in picking my partners, No: 1 was the village Playboy, should have known better then but I was young and beleived you got married and lived happily ever after as I said before, my second partner was a Merchant Seaman…don’t even go there !! but he lived in the next village and I had knownh him a long while, he always carried a torch for me apparently, well at least that’s what he called it (!!) just couldn’t hack parenthood and, when you look back, he didn’t actually have much of a relationship with my boys, then husband No; 2 was one of those whose Mother should have been sterilised at birth and I think he was looking for a substitute Mum but it couldn’t have been that bad as we were married 14 years but it was the drink and watching him start on my kids was just too much. Picture coming home from the shop to find two of your kids locked themselves in the bathroom screaming their heads off while he was out of his tree and kicking the door……uh oh ! time to go…..!!
I was brought up to believe marriage was the ultimate committment, that you loved each other and it was just one of those powder-pink, fluffy, Oxo-family worlds that - as you grew up, realised just rarely exists
April 13th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
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i-dont-believe-them Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 10:12 am
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What an unbelievably pompous attitude you have !! Marriages fail for whatever reasons, the way you talk is as if I went out and sold my body !! At least I got married, most people don’t these days because the sanctity and committment of marriage seems to count for nothing these day. Yes - I had “three different fathers for my children” Husband ( note the word ) No: 1 and Husband ( note the word ) No: 2 the relationship in between, I had no reason to think would not last, and expected to result in a marriage, but obviously misjudged the guy who as it happens I had known for over ten years as a friend, I was a mug in that respect but how dare you lump me in with the likes of Karen Matthews !! How dare you suggest that my relationships were anything other than genuine !! and what was I supposed to do ? not have any more kids because it is wrong to have them by more than one man ? Supposing Husband No: 1 had been killed in an RTA or something and I then re-married and had more kids ? that would have made kids by more than one father, and supposing Husband No: 2 died of Cancer and I remarried and maybe had another child for him ? that would have made it even worse in your reckoning !! You stupid person, get real !!
April 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Ann (23)
You are obviously an intelligent , articulate woman, just didn”t seem to have the nous
to pick the right partners!!!!!!!!! hope youv”e learned a few lessons and if there is a
another partner, he treats you well.
As for Karen, she obviously sees nothing wrong in having babies with no thought to
their upbringing or feelings. I hope while she is in her cell she can be persuaded to be
sterilised, enough is enough.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:29 am
The estate where the family lived was a disgrace. Would do nothing to lift the spirits of the people who lived there. A hovel. Karen Matthews got caught and some other too. Being an uneducated person, and that does not mean going to school either, she would get together with the other types and put the plan together only to have it backfire. Now the custody battles are emerging. Jail time won’t help Karen Matthews as she will meet up with other like her in there. So long as Shannon and her siblings get looked after preferably in foster care with good people.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:33 am
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i-dont-believe-them Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 10:12 am
ann - you have had three fathers for your children so, yes, i would lump you with Karen.
While you may find it ‘insulting’ and deny it and think you are better than Karen, you’ve acted as Karen has acted and probably for the very same reasons.
Karen had five excuses for dumping the fathers of her children - five different reasons. You have three, so far!
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It would help if i-dont-believe-them acquired a dictionary; ‘reasons’ and ‘excuses’ are not synonyms…
April 13th, 2008 at 10:30 am
12 Ian.
Hi,
My ’snobs’ comment wasn’t particularly aimed at the comments regarding the employability (or otherwise) of Ms Matthews, but more at the general sneering tone being adopted by several posters towards an entire demographic.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:12 am
ann - you have had three fathers for your children so, yes, i would lump you with Karen.
While you may find it ‘insulting’ and deny it and think you are better than Karen, you’ve acted as Karen has acted and probably for the very same reasons.
Karen had five excuses for dumping the fathers of her children - five different reasons. You have three, so far!
April 13th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Stop insulting each other about the life you have got caught up in. There are people like Sandra who recognised her situation and did something about it to ensure a better life for her, and her children - primarily, and then there are those like Karen Matthews who would never make an effort as long as they have a hole in their arse , very much more preferring to whittle away their lives on YOUR hard-earned tax monies, drinking and smoking and even trying now - it seems - to pull a scam trying to get more money from the Madeleine Fund to do what with pray ? more drinking and smoking and Bingo ? Not, I fear to take the kids out of their surroundings for a while to raise their horizions, say… a holiday by the sea or - on what they were scamming from the Benefits system - to Ibiza or Benidorm or some other cheap Euro holiday destination, not to take them to London to see the sights, not to take them to Euro Disney…oh dear me know !! probably used it to buy new computers for Craig to get better definiton for his porn vids or whatever.
People in Sandra’s situation are not always tarred with the same brush as the Matthews clan, some of us are intelligent, reasonably well-educated and have a bit more pride in themselves. I married at sixteen and thought you got married and lived “happily ever after” but First Husband had a trouser problem and I just got sick of it, so seven years and three kids later, I chucked him out and had to go on Benefits which - at that time - were not worth a light so I had to do two part-time jobs to keep the kids fed and clothed so that they didn’t stand out from their mates, which is SO important for kids not to feel different, I had a relationship with another long-term friend ( I thought ) after I became pregnant he …HE …decided that was too much responsibility and left so now I had four children and had to go back to the part-time jobs and that by the way , was so I could be home when they got back from school etc as no way would I have my kids be latch-key kids. Some years later I married aghain and was married for 14 years, had another child, but he was an alcoholic and eventually became so violent to myself and the kids I had to leave for our safety and well-being, so - back on the meagre benefits and back to the part-time jobs . Benefits which by the way , I was perfectly entitled to claim.
I don’t recall ever behaving like Karen Matthews, ever thinking like her and I would find it insulting to be lumped in the same basket with her just because I was a single parnet most of the time, on Benefits some of the time and so on.
Shannon seems to have the wisdom of the ages at this tender age as she has decided she has no wish to go back to what she had - or actually - didn’t have, and that includes not wanting to go back to, or even see, her Mother !!! what does that tell you about Karen Matthews ????
April 13th, 2008 at 3:25 am
14 sandra-
read about Karen’s supposedly feckless fathers - it all sounds like your feckless father.
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/1304_shannon.shtml
April 13th, 2008 at 1:40 am
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/1304_shannon.shtml
April 13th, 2008 at 1:17 am
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/41162/Shannon-mother-may-be-pregnant