Fiona MacKeown’s Benefits Fraud Linked To Daughter Scarlett’s Rape And Murder
FIONA MacKeown has been charged with benefit fraud. When Fiona MacKeown’s daughter Scarlett Keeling was raped and murdered in Goa, the voracious media examined the mother.
The Mail’s writers queued up to suggest that Keating’s lifestyle was in some way complicit in her daughter’s death:
“Sorry, but I blame Scarlett’s mother,” said Allison Pearson on the Mail’s front page.
Keith Waterhouse gave us:
A family of eight, living entirely on benefit allowances, managed to get as far as Goa for an extended holiday, where one of their number was murdered.
In his – oh, the irony – eponymous column, the Sun’s Jon Gaunt whined:
“Let’s not beat about the bush, Fiona MacKeown is an irresponsible mother… Fiona is typical of the kind of mother who wants everything and sees her kids as an inconvenience that can be palmed off at any excuse – she’s a clear example of the ME, ME, ME generation.”
Fiona MacKeown was not dumb and feckless. She was self-aware:
“I have nine children which makes you strong and there has been a lot to do. When I have nothing to do but think - it’s very hard. She really fought for her life and I think about that all the time.”
How does she feel about all the criticism of her for leaving Scarlett?
“I’m not surprised, really. Look at what’s been said about Madeleine McCann’s mother, and she is the picture of elegance.”
Posted: 19th, November 2009 | In: Media Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
I’m A Celebrity Schoolgirl Sam Fox Inspires Helen Flanagan’s ‘Vile Sex Secret’
What links I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’s Samantha Fox, Coronation Street’s Helen Flanagan, Shannon Matthews and “vile sex”?
THE News of The World says Coronation Street’s Helen Flanagan is on “top form” as she dressed in short schoolgirl skirt, long socks and sucks on a lollypop over a pushed up cleavage and school tie combo.
HERE’S a sight to make ‘em sit up and pay attention at the back . . . it’s soap star Helen Flanagan back in her sexy schoolgirl routine…And she was lucky not to have been kept in after school - because she was a VERY naughty girl.
Can this be the same News of The World that brought us the Shannon Matthews’ story: “SHANNON MAN’S VILE SEX SECRET.”
Posted: 15th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Shannon Matthews Returns As Aunt Is Jailed
NO sooner has Our Maddie risen to prominence once more than Shannon Matthews is sought and found. Amanda Hyett is at Leeds Crown Court. She is a neighbour of abducted schoolgirl Shannon Matthews. She now neighbour of Karen Matthews, having been jailed for illegally claiming £35,885 in income support and housing benefit.
Hyett is also niece to Michael Donovan, in whose home Shannon was located. Hyett is also the sister of Karen Matthews’ ex-lover, Craig Meehan.
Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan are each into an eight year sentence in for kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice.
Shannon Matthews has yet to come of age and write a book or appear in a one-and-one with Jeremy Kyle.
spotter: June
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Vanessa George: All The News And Opinions
ALL the news on Vanessa George, the nursery paedophile who along with Angela Allen, and Colin Blanchard distributed and made indecent pictures of children.
News of The World: In “Our Mum The Monster”, the News of The World introduces Vanessa George’s family.
Andrew George is pictured with daughters Grace and Pearl. Says Andrew:
“I call her monster now. And the kids don’t want anything to do with her.”
Now I see her as cold, calculating scum - and I don’t want her to ever see our kids again.”
Although she can see them - in the tabloids.
A typical day:
“She was brilliant with kids. She got that nursery place through Ofsted reports. She was even doing work courses on how to spot child sex abuse earlier this year…
“I remember her watching news programmes, and if a paedophile came on screen she would stand up and shout ‘f****ing b*****d, cut his f*****ing balls off’.
“I call her the monster now. She’s evil. Pure evil. And the kids don’t want anything to do with her.”
Posted: 4th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Eddie The Dog, Haut de la Garenne And A Coconut
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann - with Eddie the death dog, Haut de la Garenne and scent of a coconut.
REMEMBER Eddie The Morbid, the sniffer dog who found the scent of death in the McCanns holiday apartment in Praia da Luz?
Scent of death was a phrases first introduced to reasders in September 2007, when the Daily Star reported:
“TOY HOLDS CLUE. British sniffer dogs found the scent of death on Madeleine’s favourite soft toy Cuddlecat, it was revealed.”
Posted: 4th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Jack Tweed’s Suicide Watch With Jade Goody
JACK Tweed says he wants to kill himself. In “JACK: I WANT TO KILL MYSELF”, the News of The World places Mr Jade Goody on suicide watch – “nor death shall us part”.
Beneath a picture of Tweed, readers are told:
QUIET NIGHT IN: Prison beans and orange squash is far from Jack Tweed’s usual Champagne style
One would venture that Tweed is sipping on “prison orange squash”. But we should not interrupt the facts as Jack’s mum, Mary Tweed, tells her story to the tabloids, and so – finally! – welcomes a bona fide outlet of Jade Goody Industries.
THE distraught mum of rape charge widower Jack Tweed told yesterday of her torment at seeing her “baby” in prison and hearing him threaten to take his own life.
Posted: 27th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Gallery, Key Posts Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Jaycee Lee Dugard Lived In Britain
JAYCEE Lee Dugard - Anorak’s look at Jaycee Dugard in the news: With Baby P, Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews, 9/11, Afghanistan, War on Terror, Mumbai Massacre, the Asian tsunami and Sue Carroll…
Lest you think the story of Jaycee Dugard is not relevant to you, dear Britisher, that you are just gawping at suffering and sensation, Sue Carroll sets you straight, and engages in a rich game of Tabolid Bingo. See how many stories you can spot being linked to Our Jaycee:
Daily Mirror: “Who’s to say there isn’t a Jaycee Lee Dugard in Britain?”
How ironic that during Jaycee’s incarceration the world has witnessed terrorist atrocities, disasters and war but missed completely the cruelty inflicted on an innocent little girl locked away in a paedophile’s suburban backyard.
9/11. Mumbai. Tsunami. Iraq. Bing…. Wait for it. Sue Carroll has more:
We know enough about the death of Baby P to recognise no stone must be left unturned when a child’s life is in question.
Posted: 2nd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann Hunt Cost Police Third Of Shannon Matthews’ Price
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - The police bill…
Sky News: “Revealed: The Police Bill For Madeleine Hunt”
British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have spent almost three quarters of a million pounds on the case.
The Breakdown
The force’s part in the search for the missing little girl cost £548,477 in 2007-08.
An extra £196,756 has been spent in 2008-09 - taking the total to £745,233.
Some of the cost has so far been reimbursed by a Home Office grant of £525,069.
The Grant
In February, the Home Office said if a local police force has to incur extra costs for a Government event, its authority can ask for “special grant support from the Home Secretary.”
Says the McCanns’ spokesman, Clarence Mitchell:
“The police keep Kate and Gerry informed as and when appropriate and let them know of any movement on the case and Kate and Gerry are grateful to them. Obviously they have spent a lot of money on helping to find Madeleine and they are grateful to them for that effort.
“But Leicestershire Police are still bound by the Portuguese authorities as they are the lead force even though technically the case has been shelved over there, pending any significant developments.
“Leicestershire do what they can under the circumstances and Kate and Gerry are grateful for being kept in the loop.”
The hunt for Shannon Matthews cost £2.7million.
Madeleine McCann is missing…
Posted: 3rd, August 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Shannon Matthews Teddy Bear Related To Madeleine McCann Cuddle Cat
KAREN Matthews - Kate McCann wannabe - is the subject of a TV documentary.
And you need to watch the show because Sky tells us:
The jailed mother of Shannon Matthews is convinced by her own lies, a documentary will suggest tonight.
Convinced. Suggest. Two words that don’t sit comfortably together. But what of the news that the woman serving an eight year sentence for kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice thinks she is innocent?
Posted: 18th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (25) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: The Story In Pictures
MADELEINE MCCANN - ever since Madeleine McCann went missing and the single thread story began to be spun by a voracious media, taken up by a mawkish commentariat and vain MPs, enjoyed by armchair detectives and turned into a public spectacle, Anorak has followed the story of the girl who became the media’s Our Maddie.
We now bring you the Madeleine McCann story in pictures:
Posted: 7th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (15) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Karen Matthews: On Sex, Shopping And Kate McCann
KAREN Matthews, mother to Shannon Matthews, is behind bars and in interview with the Daily Mirror.
This is “Pure Evil” Karen Matthews.
And the front-page headline screams:
“KAREN MATTHEWS: I ONLY MISS SEX AND SHOPPING.”
Mirror readers may wonder if there is anything else in life to enjoy? What about being judgemental and spite? Adds the Mirror in a stage whisper:
(“BUT, NOT, IT WOULD SEEM HER SEVEN KIDS.”)
Posted: 5th, May 2009 | In: Media Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
MORE news on the Tabloids’ Suicide watch as the Mail cheers readers with news that “Love cheat MPs” are on “’suicide watch‘ as expense claims threaten to expose affairs”.
How the media loves a good suicide story. Having wished death on bankers, the Mail waits for MPs to kill themselves.
Posted: 1st, May 2009 | In: Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
HAVING negotiated the journey to fame and rehab, Susan Boyle is now staring death in the face.
Earlier Our Susan was in rehab, following a makeover. Now Susan Boyle moves onto Stage 3 of her media narrative: the decline.
Susan is being spoken about in the same breath as death. Who is death? No, it’s not Simon Cowell, who has had his maw darkened to make his teeth appear ever brighter.
Posted: 27th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities, Susan Boyle Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann Spotted In Malta And Chicago
MADELEINE McCann has been spotted in Malta. Madeleine McCann has been spotted in Chicago, on the Oprah Winfrey TV show.So far, Madeleine has also been seen in: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Belgium, Bosnia, France, Australia, Brazil, Wales, Italy and Dorset. Now she’s in the US.
Posted: 24th, April 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Jade Goody’s Jack Tweed Is On Suicide Watch
BERFORE we get to the news that “Fragile” Jack Tweed, Mr Jade Goody, is on “suicide lag wing”, we introduce Sun scribes JAMES CLENCH and ANDY CRICK to nominative determinalism.
Clench and Crick tell us:
FRAGILE Jack Tweed has been locked in a tough jail’s secure hospital wing to protect him from hard-case lags, we can reveal. Bosses at Chelmsford Prison have put the terrified 21-year-old in a single cell alongside inmates on suicide watch amid fears he will be targeted.
Posted: 16th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann Spotted In Italy
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
The competition is - as ever - Tabloid Bingo - the writer’s challenge to link Madeleine McCann with any major news event. Your caller toay is MIRIAM O’CALLAGHAN, of the Irish Times.
Irish Times: “An ogre of the Apennines called on L’Aquila”
Midst the ochre, azure, terracotta and mimosa, there are jagged black holes from which men, women and children are being pulled: barely alive, barely dead.
Posted: 8th, April 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
That Ryanair Stewardess Is Porn Star Edita Bente
MEET “SAUCY stewardess” Edita Schindlerova, porn star and drinks wallah for no frills (surely frillies? – Ed) airline Ryanair.
Such is the onboard entertainment - gimme a beat.
For Sun readers looking to further research Edita’s career, knows that “she features on adult websites as ‘Edita Bente’, where graphic photos show her having sex with a mystery man.”
Posted: 17th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Murat, Opik, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen And Jade Goody
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring special guest star Robert Murat, Lembit Opik, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Jade Goody and a heated debate
AFTER a winter-long hibernation, Madeleine McCann returns to the newspapers and front-line debate.
The University of Cambridge’s organ tells its readers: “Robert Murat holds Cambridge Union spellbound in tabloids debate”
The debate, which brought together some famous names from the media, was notable for emotional highs and lows, as well as some colourful tabloid-style language and plenty of laughter.
Speaking for the motion were Michael White, Associate Editor of the Guardian, Robert Murat and his lawyer Louis Charalambous, and the Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik, whose personal life has regularly been splashed across the front pages of the tabloids.
Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (12) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Jade Goody’s Celebrity Cancer: Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews, The X Factor and Jesus
JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s celebrity cancer with Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews, The X Factor and Jesus.
Daily Mirror: “Christen Me Now Begs Jade”
Max Clifford added Jade’s sons were coping “very well”.
“They are aware their mum is very ill, but they are very young. Hopefully their lives will be as unaffected as possible, bearing in mind they are going to lose the centrepiece of their lives…
…me, Max Clifford?
…their mum.
Posted: 7th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (26) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: David Peace’s West Riding Trilogy, Fact And Fiction
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann:
The Independent: “Red Riding: Yorkshire noir on TV - Channel 4’s trilogy of films based on David Peace’s ‘Yorkshire noir’ novels, will shock even seasoned viewers of crime drama, says Gerard Gilbert”
Posted: 4th, March 2009 | In: Media Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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