Shannon Matthews: Ripper Yarn And Not In McCanns’ Class
SHANNON Watch: Anorak’s look at Shannon Matthews in the media
DAILY MIRROR: “Hunt for Shannon Matthews is the biggest since the Yorkshire Ripper”
Is it?
The search is the biggest since the one for Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe who murdered 13 women in the 70s and 80s.
DAILY STAR (front page): “SHANNON: BIGGEST MANHUNT SINCE RIPPER”
DAILY EXPRESS: “SHANNON: HUNT IS ON SCALE OF RIPPER”
Chief Inspector Graham Armitage said: “It’s certainly the biggest missing persons inquiry since the Yorkshire Ripper, which I also worked on.”
Ripper. Ripper. Ripper. Is this a new context to place the disappearance of a child in? Is comparison with Madeleine McCann no longer apt?
DAILY MAIL: “Someone I know abducted missing Shannon just to hurt me, says mother”
Her comments came as her partner drew a sharp line between Shannon’s family and the parents of missing Madeleine McCann.
Craig Meehan, said: “It’s two families from two different backgrounds which shouldn’t really get compared - basically, a poor family and a rich family.”
Mr Meehan, 22, went on: “To me, they [the McCanns] are like celebrities in other people’s eyes. They’ve got money, they know celebrities and all that, so they can afford to do everything they do, everything they can.
“We’re trying to do what we can with the money we’ve got, with the resources we’ve got.”
It’s the biggest manhunt since The Yorkshire Ripper. Or is a private detective firm now also required?
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Shannon Matthews ‘abducted to hurt mother’”
Asked if she thought the abductor was someone she knew, Mrs Matthews, a mother of seven, said: “It seems that way because there’s no trace of her at all. There’s no trace of her swimming costume, her towel or anything like that that she’s taken with her.”
Mrs Matthews told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme she believed the reason someone had taken her daughter was to get at her.
Asked why someone would do it, Mrs Matthews replied: “Just to hurt me, really.”
When pressed on who might be behind the abduction, she said: “No idea at all. All my friends and family have all been checked and there are no sightings of her things there at all.”
March 12th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
1st
March 12th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Damn.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
How can shannons mum say that the abductor was someone she knew? Is this another repeat of what the McCanns think just to make headlines?
March 12th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
How can you say that? Sit and imagine for a second how you would feel in Karens shoes. She is out of her mind with worry, stop being so nasty and get out there and help find that beautiful 9 year old little girl.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
“We have talked with one or two companies and have a number of proposals and we are moving forward with those proposals. It is more than likely it would be with ITV at this stage. We are looking at a long form documentary surrounding some of the wider issues…”
I can imagine that one or two companies McCanns have talked to may operate on the wilder shores of pornography, but I doubt that any reputable organization will touch them with a bargepole.
ITV will not commit themselves to a ‘long form’ documentary on child abuse and neglect or ‘disappearance’ featuring people who are suspected of just such crimes, if not worse.
ITV will not commit to a production schedule over several months, and to an investment of substantial proportions, and weave their documentary around the story of the McCanns, when that story is very far from having plumbed its final depths of accusation, arrest, deportation, criminal trial and imprisonment.
ITV, for whatever projected financial gain or feel-good factor, will not give that particular hostage to fortune. If opportunistic or ethically-deficient programme-makers have entered into tentative discussion with McCanns they will have done so at their own peril.
ITV understands their prospective audience perfectly able to distinguish between what happens to other missing children, and what happened to Madeleine McCann.
relaw0128
March 12th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
This is a grim story. The talk of the Ripper equips it with a stench that turns the stomach…
The mother is bereft.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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Loraine
I would but i’m in Spain….whats youre excuse for sitting here hammering me instead of looking for Shannon?
March 12th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Oh, come on. Are we all supposed to look for a missing child? I’m reading a book by David Peace - the last part of the West Riding Trilogy. It is about missing children, and when children go missing. It is nothing short of excellent. Read it. Gory. But great…
March 12th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
5 children were reportedly killed by the combined US/Iraq security forces in a scrap with shia militia in Iraq yesterday.
How come you’re not all up in arms about that?
March 12th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Because you can’t find them alive
March 12th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Because there is no mystery as to who is at fault there
March 12th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I wonder if the press have had any hints from the police that this is a Robert Black style situation rather than a haven’t-a-clue-McCann style situation?
It’s odd to start talking about the Ripper when they were following the class angle - or is it to cover-up the awkward class issue???
March 12th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Or are they implying Shannon is a Yorkshire Ripper type missing person???
Not the best comparison is it - missing child/serial killer we’re looking for.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
If it is a Robert Black-style killer, the police will need to be looking far beyond Yorkshire. All his victims were left many, many miles from where they were taken.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
The longer the search goes on, the less likely poor Shannon will be found alive, I just hope there is some kind of closure.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
14 - Indeed.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
The Yorkshire Ripper was never a missing persons case so I don’t quite get the comparision - the Holly And Jessica case got far more coverage in 2002 as did the Suzy Lamplugh case in 1986 IMO.
M and A
Think they are referring to Police coverage, not Media
March 12th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
‘It’s the biggest manhunt since the Yorkshire Ripper’.
As the only common ground between the hunts for Ripper and Shannon Matthews is Yorkshire, perhaps the implication is that it’s the biggest (ie most police involvement) in Yorkshire using Yorkshire’s officers since the Ripper investigation.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Sorry, I should have said ‘inference’ rather than ‘implication’.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
There has been some odd speculation on this forum, so I am going to throw into the mix the thoughts of my son, expressed to me very early on in Madeleine’s disappearance:
” When she first disapeared I knew she would be in the news for a year because I got off a bus in Bethnal Green at a bus stop next to an opticians, where her picture was in the window, with the words “LOOK INTO HER EYES” written above it. I thought to myself, why? I’m not going to recognise her or be able to do anything. She didn’t go missing in this country and she’s not from Bethnal Green.
I also thought the EYE is one of the symbols of the global elite (the all seeing eye, that is shown above the pryamid, on the US $1 bill, and many other places). The “Look into her eyes” comment, along with the fact it was an opticians, made me think that this was an event orchestrated by the global elite, who David Icke maintains are child abusers and into child sacrifice.
Their ideal candidate would be blue eyed and blond haired. I recalled that in some ancient cultures, human sacrifice was the norm, and that the person being sacrificed would be paraded around the city for a year before the event took place.
The idea behind this was that every person in the city MUST KNOW who the sacrifice is. They wanted the person to be in the psyche of the population as this added more energy to the sacrifice. The person would also know they were going to be sacrificed (in some cultures this was an honor).
I have also heard that the reason the sacrificed person would know they were going to be in a ritual sacrifice, was to make sure they were full of fear and all the hormones this brings out, so their blood could be drunk.
Anyway, the whole coverage of Madeleine’s disappearance was totally different from the very start. It was impossible not to know and not to see her picture. I could tell it was propaganda, and I am still certain that there are very high powered people involved, state, police, religious, political and media.
I would imagine their plan is to find her dead, but announce she was killed prior to the discovery, and then let it be known she was alive for the full year, which I would also guess will be around 6 weeks longer. ”
Yes, bizzarre! But if there is any truth in this angle, there will only be six weeks to wait -
unless a miracle can save Madeleine from such a terrible fate, assuming she has not already met her end.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
The portuguese lawyer and the staff that is working with him at the dam,gave 1 interview to RTP1 tonight.
Everything they find their will go directly to M3 and not to the police
What a laugh
And the mcconns say they are furious ??
This story ,is really surreal
Almost all the dirt is connected to them
Proud to be British ?
Don’t think
March 12th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
CSN
Can you explain more?
Yes, they have found socks (separate ones, I hear), and rope, but nothing yet that is indicative of a crime.
IF they were to find a body, or bones or whatever, are you saying that the searchers would report only to M3?
Is this just another M3 / McC distraction, but being sold as ‘fury’?
March 12th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
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Denzylle
They will NOT find
even a rock they brought up
The police knows what hapened
The dam like the sightings are all part of 1 pattern
We have experts from all kind of fields stuing this case
March 12th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Why is there no Shannon thread?
March 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
yes ,everything they find gos directly to M3 i also saw a spanish woman that belongs to that “staff”
March 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Why is Madeleine being linked by Anorak to Madeleine?
What have they actually got in common?
OK, both involve a child missing, so why is the thread not called ‘Missing Children’?
March 12th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
*studying
March 12th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
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Denzylle
They showed the socks
March 12th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
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Denzylle
Is this just another M3 / McC distraction, but being sold as ‘fury’?
yep
March 12th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
hello folks
nearly ten p.m.
20 posters?
good fun?
:oll:
i think not…