Shannon Matthews: Karen Matthews’ Call To Police

LISTEN as Karen Matthews calls the police about missing daughter Shannon:

OPERATOR: Police, emergency.

MRS MATTHEWS: Hiya, I want to report my daughter as missing, please.

OPERATOR: Right. How old is she?

MRS MATTHEWS: Nine.

OPERATOR: Nine?

MRS MATTHEWS: Yes.

OPERATOR: When did you last see her?

MRS MATTHEWS: She went to school this morning.

OPERATOR: Right. Have there been any arguments, or anything……

MRS MATTHEWS: No, none at all.

OPERATOR: No. Have you been in touch with any of her friends or anybody like that?

MRS MATTHEWS: I’ve been everywhere I can think of friends-wise and family and everything.

OPERATOR: And nobody at all has any information about where she can be? Does she go to school and come back on her own normally then?

MRS MATTHEWS: Yes.

OPERATOR: Right. So. You expected her home what, at 4 o’clock?

MRS MATTHEWS: About half-past-three at the latest…(inaudible)….

OPERATOR: Does she have a mobile phone or anything like that?

MRS MATTHEWS: No. It’s at home.

OPERATOR: So there’s no way to ring to find out….

MRS MATTHEWS: No

OPERATOR: But you’ve rung round her friends and you’ve been in touch with all her relatives and there’s nowhere else that you’ve got left to look?

MRS MATTHEWS: No

OPERATOR: Have you been in touch with the school. Can they confirm whether they’ve been….

MRS MATTHEWS: She left school at the normal time at ten-past-three.

OPERATOR: Right. What do they call her?

MRS MATTHEWS: Shannon Matthews

OPERATOR: Has she been missing before.

MRS MATTHEWS: No. It’s the first time.

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Posted: 12th, November 2008 | In: Media, Shannon Matthews | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

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sam Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

i thought it interesting that she didn’t answer the question ‘when did you last see her’ directly.

thatpoorpriest Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

I thought “Hiya, I want to report my daughter as missing, please.” was an odd why to start the call.

You’d expect something rather more urgent sounding and desperate. that sentence sounded rehearsed.

thatpoorpriest Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

can anyone tell me where to find the Madeleine posts?
this one was the nearest I could get?
has it been whoosh lunked permanently?
It used to be so easy

Karen Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

I think we’re whoosh-clunked.

thatpoorpriest Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 12:01 am

I’m not the only confused one then?

coco Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 12:04 am

Aaaaaaaaaggghhhhhhhh!

MRS MATTHEWS: No
………………………………………………………………………………………

No! No you have not rung her friends and been in touch with all her relatives ……..
At least she was honest about that bit then!

thatpoorpriest Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 12:15 am

coco, good point, answering a question that way remind you of anyone else?

Have you found the MM thread Coco?

coco Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 12:25 am

MM, the DNA - and now even something as simple as a thread relating to it!

Unlucky!

coco Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 12:31 am

It looks like it has gone forever …………………. BUT! I bet it will be back. Everybody’s talking about it now - whereas before - it was just those of us that thought the Tapastwats looked a bit dodgy and fay!

I had to divert a youngish lorry-driver the other day because the road was too narrow. He said he was going to Coventry andLeicester - and was making jokes up about being sent there - and then without my even saying a single word - he said he liked Coventry but not Leicester - and launched into a load of verbal about the Clan.

He said that whenever he went in the transport cafes - all his friends ever talked about was the Clan and whether they had anything to do with it.

I said that I hadn’t really kept up the story!