Comments on: Shannon Matthews: Michael Donovan’s Tracksuit And John Guant Passes Judgement

By: AgendaWide

AgendaWide — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:45:49 +0000

Sunday People -Says McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “We haven’t heard through official channels if they are considering this charge. But you’d have to ask yourself, ‘Why now?’”
If not heard through official channels then heard from who (their legal sources ? nah that would be official) and why bother comment? The gloves are off leaving the Team’s fingerprints on this.
In the Mail, the story about police brutality must be part of Portugal’s wake-up call to media scrutiny of its human rights record. I see Amnesty international report problems with some brutality from police and prison guards, I don’t know but problems with human rights may be either historical, insignificant (and investigated) and no worse compared with countries with the best human rights record. I’ve no time to find out today.

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:19:18 +0000

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i-dont-believe-them Says:

April 18th, 2008 at 10:18 am
how can karen be called “working class” when she doesn’t work?
………………………………………………………………

You are at it again I see ??!!

By: PeterMac

PeterMac — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:25:22 +0000

13 Dairy
Accodring to Sky News Meehan was interviewed about “pervert the course” and has now been bailed. (= been sent back to prison)

By: yampster

yampster — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:21:39 +0000

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DCB

He doesn’t have to present a defence. The crown will have to prove that his was the only access to that PC. With the amount of coming and going in that house I would be suprised if they could prove it

By: dairy

dairy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:15:30 +0000

7 the watcher
word is that the family colluded in Shannon’s disappearance because they thought they too would get large donations to a fund, in the same way as the McCanns did.
that’s not the McCann’s fault, in my opinion, but it is very symptomatic of this time now and the get-rich-by-whatever-means mentality.

By: DCB

DCB — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:06:14 +0000

He has pleaded not guilty - interesting to see what defence he will present.

By: Gandolf

Gandolf — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:01:21 +0000

They ave tried to frame the apless monger, the slapper and the uncle, what a tangled web they have woven.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:57:19 +0000

“Jon Gaunt cannot and should not be made up…”

Yeah I agree, he’d look like a real fairy

By: Mic

Mic — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:39:20 +0000

“no intention of ever working – they just want to leech off the sweat of the rest of us.”

…blimey! the royal family are now getting dragged into the debate.

By: PeterMac

PeterMac — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:33:49 +0000

I have always made a distinction between ‘working class’ and ‘lower class’

By: the watcher

the watcher — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:55:14 +0000

seems to me the rich and famous get through a lot of partners over the years without criticism from the public but the poor are labeled as slappers .
perhaps if Karen Mathews could afford a pr team and could afford a legal team she would be able to sue the newspapers making these claims like another uk couple did very recently.

By: lyn

lyn — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:39:41 +0000

Oooh - scandal in the family. As long as Shannon comes out of this better off and her siblings too. Just imagine someone in years to come reading about the goings on in this family.

By: noseycow

noseycow — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:24:30 +0000

2 Stickler - King Henry VIII wasn’t working class either was he?? and lets not mention how many partners the late princess Di is reported as having had…

By: lyn

lyn — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:13:15 +0000

Could the newspapers do quick look into the family tree of Karen? She has red hair! The Lancasterians were from the Plantagenet tree,I believe.

By: i-dont-believe-them

i-dont-believe-them — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:18:27 +0000

how can karen be called “working class” when she doesn’t work?

By: Stickler

Stickler — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:43:12 +0000

… except that isn’t he right? Perhaps, like policemen getting younger, agreeing with this kind of editorial is a sign of age. Oh dear. Anorak, perhaps I was as young as you are once.

The original John Gaunt (Guant? Anorak: see me after class), 1st Duke of Lancaster, shares some similarity with the mating habits of Karen Matthews: two daughters by his first wife, one by his second, four children by his third wife (although born out of wedlock, he later did the decent thing) and a fifth by a lady of the court.

Perhaps Karen has royal blood!

This scepter’d isle, this demi-paradise, this happy breeding, this blessed plot, these teeming wombs… this England!

By: PeterMac

PeterMac — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:27:06 +0000

If true, something interesting is going on. Police are not allowed to interview suspects AFTER charge, unless about something totally different.