Shannon Matthews And The Taxis Of Evil
SHANNON WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Shannon Matthews and family…
THE SUN: “FREAK OUT – Shannon beast released from jail so docs can treat bust jaw”
It’s “kidnap fiend” Michael Donovan. He looks a bit like Vivienne Westwood, only in more wearable clothes. The “toothless weirdo” is out of jail and into hospital to have his jaw fixed. “Evil mum” Karen Matthews remains in choky.
Evil. Fiend. A devil man! Pure evil!
BUG-EYED beast Michael Donovan gets a taste of his own medicine yesterday as he is restrained by handcuffs and a chain.
The 40-year-old oddball, who tethered kidnap victim Shannon Matthews with a noose during her 24 days in captivity, was manacled to a guard for a hospital visit.
Smile!
The reviled abductor has been unable to put in his false teeth since the lag battered him three weeks ago, inflicting a double fracture.
Off to the doctors for realignment.
Donovan, flanked by two guards, was taken to Pinderfields from Armley jail in Leeds in a TAXI.
A taxi. Is there no bus stop outside the jail? Better he walks there, with a huge placard about his chest and be put to some good use: “SUN – Only 30p!”
One patient shocked to see him yesterday said: “He was waltzed through to a private area. I suppose they couldn’t have him sitting around in the waiting room in case someone else had a go at him.”
Strictly Come Dancing has impacted on all of our lives.
DAILY STAR: “TURKEY KAREN”
PRISONERS have nicknamed Karen Matthews “Bernard” because she faces the same fate as the food giant’s turkeys.
Out by Christmas?
A jail insider told the Daily Star: “A lot of the girls just want a piece of Matthews. They’re all calling her Bernard because they don’t reckon she’ll see in Christmas.
“Most of the other women in here are mums themselves and can’t believe what she did. There isn’t really a queue to whack her, it’s more of a stampede. The warders know she’s public enemy No 1 and are guarding her 24/7.
“She spends most of her time in a cell on her own. When she does go anywhere up to five of them follow her around. They don’t want her doing anything stupid on their watch. She is scared – and she should be.”
A bit of lag on lag action. Can they be naked for the Star?
JANE MOORE (The Sun): “I do feel pity Karen… but only for taxpayers”
While hard-working parents made daily sacrifices to cope with their family responsibilities, their taxes were thrown at a single mother deemed to have learning difficulties and an inability to function within the norms of society…
The truth, we now know, is that Matthews was clever enough to mastermind a breathtakingly audacious kidnap plot and play the role of anguished mother for weeks.
Clever? She got caught after a few weeks.
Eye down:
It was the same story with Baby P, where social services unequivocally failed to address the needs of the very children they are paid to protect and instead focused on the reprehensible mother.
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “It is pure hypocrisy to sneer at single mothers - Gill Hornby argues that we should stop concentrating on the “problem” of single mothers and start considering that of absent fathers”
It is true that, among her many crimes, Karen Matthews has not done much for the public image of the single mother in general. But you could say that Robert Mugabe hasn’t done much for the reputation of elected political leaders either. Like Mugabe, Matthews is an exception in her field. She is exceptionally vile, exceptionally cruel and exceptionally stupid.
Mugabe. Matthews. Compare and contrast.
But let’s not, on that evidence, rush in and condemn all mothers who are bringing up children on their own and depending on their benefit.
Ooops! Too late. We’ve burnt their homes, repatriated their goods and chattels and savaged the kids.
NEWS & STAR: “Pity poor Shannon”
You tend to wonder how many times in her troubled life kidnapped youngster Shannon Matthews had need to repeat the words she whimpered to policemen coming to her rescue.
Manipulation: It’s easy to brand Karen Matthews as evil because we can’t face trying to understand how she could do what she did
“Stop it now – you’re frightening me!” she cried…
Yeah, let’s imagine how much worse things might have been. It’s the tabloid’s new game. playt along at home…
Posted: 10th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Media Comments (25) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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December 11th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I would imagine they’d be wary of making a public connection between the two just in case there are two religious psychopaths out there….. Imagine the furore if Bible John struck again.
December 11th, 2008 at 12:36 am
There was a documentary about Peter Tobin on in Scotland and Bible John wasn’t even hinted at….
I wonder if any announcements will be made…..
December 11th, 2008 at 12:34 am
coolandcalm
Oi! That’s my job…
December 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I don’t know Karen I have no sidebar at all anymore.. I just roam around when I’m bored and piss people off
December 10th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Unyey. It’s gone… where is it?????
December 10th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Yey, the recent comments thing is back. Now we find each other.
(I’ve lost my forum password again - and I think I’m registered twice or something…)
December 10th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Oh no. You sussed me!
December 10th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
…lets put it another way….is your real name Rupert Murdoch?
December 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
why? what difference would that make?
December 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
cooland calm…please don’t take this the wrong way…are you a reader of The Sun by anychance?
December 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Each to their own. Their respective parents are proud of them and that is what matters.
December 10th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I can’t stomach the Beckhams, they make me physically sick…but unlike cooland calm I will not give my reasons, to me they are obvious.
As for them being good role models…I think anyone who believes that is either deluded, decieved or on their PaRroll or all three.
December 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I love the Beckhams and think they are good role models.
Married once, three children by the same parents, don’t fall out of nightclubs pissed, swearing and punching photographers, don/t smoke, work hard, run a childrens charity……….
The fact that they are paid a fortune is down to the public. Should they take to a two bed roomed ex-council flat and give the rest to charity? would you?
December 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Ah ..how sweet …not wanting to offend DB…
how much is Brand Beckham paying you Dairy?…or did they threaten to sue?
Rebecca Loos is class compared to the Beckhams.
December 10th, 2008 at 10:39 am
I thought she was just into pigs….? (no offence David….)
December 10th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I used to work with Tracy Andrews’ Dad and I met her several times when she was growing up. There was nothing at all about her or her upbringing to say whether it was nature or nurture that caused her to do what she did.
December 10th, 2008 at 10:22 am
There was a joke many years ago about turkey sex, I think it involved someone like Rebecca Loos to do the necessary….
December 10th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Google it agw …i’m sure you’ll find out
December 10th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Bernard’s bootiful bank balance.
The Matthews Norfolk turkey is so large-breasted it can not have natural sex.
It’s a curse, but I still cannot help wondering what unnatural turkey sex may be?
December 10th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Perhaps the turkey massacre that went on behind Sarah Palin would be nice in a Seasons Greetings to the female Bernard Matthews….
‘This too could happen to you’….
December 10th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Blimey AGW… that is deep and meaningful for early morning! But you’ll never convince me that Bernard Matthews is kind and caring to poultry!
Percy… Pure Evil for Chocolate sounds good to me.
December 10th, 2008 at 9:12 am
The Dewsbury two’s living nightmare has to be …the judge shows a deeply-caring, rehabilitation and socially concious attitude and sets them free on probation.
Former neighbours would be quick to find them and introduce them to “pure evil” .
They are guilty. Donovan and Matthews have already been sentenced by the mob.
Bernard Matthews took the trouble to stun his birds before cutting their throats.
The judge is the Yorkshire Puddings’ last hope.
December 10th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I think “Pure Evil” is a great name for a chocolate bar….or perfume
“Credit Crunch” sounds delicious as a breakfast cereal.
…and “Weapons of Mass Destruction”…..well what a great new name for a Investment Bankers?
December 10th, 2008 at 8:44 am
I have the Google rights on ‘Impure Evil’…
December 10th, 2008 at 8:40 am
out shopping I noticed that the book about Tracy Andrews (she killed her boyfriend Lee Harvey and pretended it was anothers road rage) is called Pure Evil.
Is ‘Pure Evil’ the latest buzz phrase??