Whatever Happened To Karen Matthews’ Other Baby?
SHANNON Watch: Anorak’s looks at Shannon Matthews, Karen Matthews and the greater Matthews clan…
Karen Matthews is guilty of a serious crime: she made columnists look like fools:
BEATRIX CAMPBELL: “Who do we blame?”
Compare and contrast the stories of Shannon Matthews and Madeleine McCann - and what we see is a narrative of nasty class prejudice
Shannon Matthews’ neighbourhood, community and family are poor, lacking in resources, and yet they have spontaneously displayed remarkable resourcefulness - children organised a vigil, adults went out searching for the missing child, community intelligence led the police to her. And once she was found, a party was promised.
Karen Matthews has acted appropriately throughout: she was waiting for Shannon at home; she contacted the police as soon as she had exhausted all the obvious locations.
And yet, our eye is drawn to her poverty, numbers of partners, cans of lager going into her household. Everything about Ms Matthews’ life has been up for scrutiny.
Continues for a few hundred more words…
THE SUN: ‘Let Shannon go please’”
She said Shannon’s disappearance had broken her family apart and told how she cried herself to sleep at night and could not go into her daughter’s bedroom.
She said she accepted police had to carry out criminal checks on members of her family.
DAILY EXPRESS: SHANNON MOTHER MAY BE PREGNANT
THE mother of Shannon Matthews is thought to be pregnant with her eighth child.
CAROLE MALONE: “Poor Shannon’s a victim of class”
Her boyfriend, who is ten years younger than her, looks both simple and scruffy, not surprising as Karen herself looks a bit rough around the edges.
Karen and her 22-year-old boyfriend, Craig Meehan, live just 100 miles from Kate and Gerry McCann…
The problem is that Shannon Matthews isn’t as pretty as Maddie McCann. She’s not blonde or cute or beautiful. You don’t look at her and want to cry….
Carole knows?
I was brought up in an area just like the one where Shannon lives. I’ve never been to the Dewsbury Moor estate but I know about the people who live there. I know their values, their lives, their circumstances….
But she IS doing her damnedest to save her little girl—and we have to help her. Because she’s hurting every bit as much as the McCanns are. Her agony, her angst, her guilt, eat into her soul just like they eat into Kate and Gerry’s.
I USED to live next to a council estate in the North East, much like the one in Dewsbury Moor.
These are Carole’s people:
Karen Matthews, Craig Meehan and his uncle Michael Donovan were never those sort of people. Because all three belonged to that sub (human) class that now exists in the murkiest, darkest corners of this country.
A whole legion of people who contribute nothing to society yet believe it owes them a living — good-for-nothing scroungers who have no morals, no compassion, no sense of responsibility and who are incapable of feeling love or guilt.
Karen Matthews - Shannon fodder for hacks…
Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Media Comments (17) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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December 13th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
chenier, again interesting reading, thanks.
December 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Morning sam, morning Karen
The Nottingham Non-Existent Satanic abuse case was one of the funniest I have ever read; the Inquiry - the JET report- into the maniacs who made it up, including Judith Jones, was suppressed for some time by a High Court Injunction, but is freely available at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dlheb/jetrepor.htm
It does do a very good review of just where the Satanic Abuse myth claimed from, so that might be useful to you, Karen
December 12th, 2008 at 9:50 am
karen, good morning, no i don’t. what is interesting is beatrix campbell and judith jones are or were connnected, they were partners and judith jones was on the review panel and also;
‘Judith Jones - formerly Judith Dawson - was a leading figure among social workers who became convinced that a group of young children were being sexually abused by devil worshippers in Nottingham in 1989. Police found no evidence to support this claim.’
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006D9B9.htm
December 12th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Chenier and Sam
That’s a really frightening case.
I’ve always wondered why Britain esp. England - one of the most secular counties on Earth - went for the American Satanic Abuse rubbish.
I haven’t found any books on the psychology of it… does anyone know of any?
December 12th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Columnists are always spouting crap…
December 12th, 2008 at 12:34 am
very long chenier and interesting,thanks, i found also a write up about it in the guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2002/jul/31/childrensservices.childprotection
December 11th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Beatrix Campbell asked, rhetorically, “Who do we blame?”, though she was not noted for her reluctance to blame people in the past; the appalling treatment of the Newcastle nursery workers Dawn Reed and Chris Lillie is a case in point.
Beatrix Campbell had, of course, claimed that a “stringent” inquiry had found “persuasive evidence of sadistic and sexual abuse of up to 350 children” perpetrated by those nursery workers and a paedophile ring. It was fantasy; the inquiry turned out to be as stringent and reliable as Haringey’s Serious Case Reviews. The nursery workers had been tried and found not guilty, but that didn’t stop the inquiry concluding that they were guilty as sin, and it didn’t stop the media reporting that they were guilty as sin.
Had it not been for the introduction of the no-win no-fee system which enabled Dawn Reed and Chris Lillie to sue the people who made these claims for libel, Campbell would still be writing newspaper articles about a wholly non-existent paedophile ring, and the wholly innocent nursery workers would still be in hiding in fear of their lives.
And no, I’m not exaggerating about their lives being in danger; for example, the Sun ran this:
“HELP US FIND THESE FIENDS.
Do you know where perverts Lillie and Reed are now? Phone us on 0161 935 5315 or 0171 782 4105. Don’t worry about the cost - we will call you straight back.”
Justice Eady’s judgement in the libel case, concluding that:
‘the four members of the Review Team were malicious in the promulgation of their Report… That is because they included in their Report a number of fundamental claims which they must have known to be untrue and which cannot be explained on the basis of incompetence or mere carelessness.’
runs to hundreds of pages, and much of it is deeply depressing stuff.
It’s worth reading, all the same, if you wish to know the depths to which allegedly intelligent and educated people are capable of sinking. The children were, indeed, abused, but not by the nursery workers. They were abused by the professionals who managed to convince themselves, the children, and the children’s parents that the children had been abused.
And it’s doubly worth reading as a counter to the attempts by the media to claim that no-win, no-fee agreements are inhibiting free speech. The Sun, after all, would so much prefer to be able to carry on hunting down fiends and perverts, and Beatrix Campbell would so much prefer to be able to claim that malicious libels were, in fact, the considered conclusions of a stringent inquiry…
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2002/1600.html
December 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
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December 11th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I was thrown off an banned from this site for a few days for suggesting that this could be the outcome of the Matthews case when it was still in full flow and the country was still looking for Shannon. I may have been generalising, however my words were true. People like Karen and Craig are scum. Full stop. Period.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I shouldn’t think Shannon would read it, foster parents would ensure she doesn’t see that kind of stuff, I hope she ’s at school and looking forward to Xmas
December 11th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
june i know but doesnt she think poor shannon will read that, i know she has bigger problems to read about but i’m sure it will do some damage
December 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Brandon
I think she was just summing up the general p of v and peoples reactions to missing child/ physical appearance,and because they are pretty more people will notice.
The death of Baby P for instance was bloody horrendous, but his blue eyes and blonde hair were the attraction for all the hype that followed
December 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am
sorry
December 11th, 2008 at 11:08 am
The problem is that Shannon Matthews isn’t as pretty as Maddie McCann. She’s not blonde or cute or beautiful. You don’t look at her and want to cry…
How fucking dare she bloody bitch
December 11th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Devon cream tea?
December 11th, 2008 at 9:41 am
sconed.
December 11th, 2008 at 9:26 am
ooh frist