Shannon Matthews: The Missing Thousands And Karen Matthews’ TV Vigil
SHANNON WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Shannon Matthews
DAILY STAR (front page): “SHANNON’S £10K AID VANISHES”Police “want to know what happened to up to £10,000 said to have been donated by the public to help find the nine-year-old. Neighbours desperate to help stuffed cash through the letterbox of the council house Shannon shared with mum Karen Matthews, 32, and stepdad Craig Meehan, 22.
“A family pal said “through the door” donations totalled £6,000. Up to £3,000 also flooded into the Shannon Matthews Fund.
£6,000 plus £3,000 equals…
Roger O’Doherty, neighbourhood manager of local community group Dewsbury West Pathfinder, says the family had not received “as much as a ha’penny’’ from the official fund he had set up. Says he: “I can’t say precisely how much is in the fund but I think it is around £2,000. We were in the process of applying for charitable status which would have meant it would have been administered by trustees. I wasn’t one of them.
£6,000 plus £2,000 equals…
“As far as I am concerned now all the money will go towards helping the children and families living nearby, which was one of the original aims.”
THE SUN: “Inmates terrify Shannon mum”
The mum of kidnapped Shannon spends 23 hours a day in virtual solitary confinement, watching soaps and daytime TV for much of the time.
Throw in some washing, shopping and fish finger frying and that’s life for a typical mum-of-seven
Posted: 23rd, April 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media, Shannon Matthews, Tabloids Comments (20) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Maybe they should look under the matress. You find some strange things hidden under beds in Dewsbury.
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Well….funnily enough, if you click on “Madeleine McCann” in the headings, this one is now first on the threads !!
Well it was…it has now been superceded pardon me and all that !!
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
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dairy Says:
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:26 pm
do us a favour and keep the Madeleine stuff for the Madeleine postings…?? those of us not interested in joining the daily rant are trying to keep away from it as much as possible - cheers
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Well….funnily enough, if you click on “Madeleine McCann” in the headings, this one is now first on the threads !! So one assumes there is a tenuous connection or two….missing child/ren missing donations, misused funds, lying parents etc blah…..
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
oooh!! Get Her/Him!
you beat me to it, I may have hesitated to be SO direct…but not for long
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:26 pm
do us a favour and keep the Madeleine stuff for the Madeleine postings…?? those of us not interested in joining the daily rant are trying to keep away from it as much as possible - cheers
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Has anyone seen the Standard front page? Kate McCann seems to blame Mark Warner for not offering a baby listening service as the reason she disappeared.
MW doesn’t offer a baby listening service because the resort is too spread out but they offer a nanny one instead where the carer actually sits in the apartment while the parents go out - the same service Kate and Gerry TURNED DOWN!!
A spokesman for MW said the couple were aware of what services were on offer when they booked their holiday with them - for the forth year running!!
Funnily enough, CM hasn’t said a peep!!
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 am
23 hours a day doing nothing. Beat the rush and hide the kids now.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
It is nice of the public to only donate in round sums. It doesn’t appear to make adding up easier though.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 am
Wait til lunchtime , when the translators into Swahili get hold of it…
BTW he is one year older than me and I am 35
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 am
I refer you, Mylords, to my previous answer which was number three but is now already number 13,466 in the Guide to Site Expectoration. It was secretly and most vilely stolen from this esteemed and venerable site and is now in use by Moderators world-wide.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:57 am
The only other contender was me, but in the end beauty gave way to age……….
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
But agw could have pulled the first to be first…
scandalous rumour I know.
I am hiding behind just_me
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:32 am
PeterMac
Indeed.
Why nobody ask the McC.?
About the “disappearence” from the money now.
I mean, the day in septembre, if their made arguidos, the fund was 1,2 million pounds.
According to gerry’s blog, they can not take money from the fund,because they were arguidos. According to Mitchell, who was said in April this year, after the payment from the papers, now the fund is about 900.000 pounds.
Where in the hell is the rest ?(ca 800.000 pounds)
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:12 am
When will we see the headline?
DAILY STAR (front page): “MADDIE’S £1m AID VANISHES” Police “want to know what happened to up to £1,000,000 said to have been donated by the public to help find the three-year old.
M and A
or if?
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:55 am
AGW was first, I know, because I was second
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 am
AGW - can we have a source for that please?…………………..OK, I’m outta here… (just_me covers head with arms and backs out the door as fast as she can)
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 am
No.
You wouldn’t.
Nobody would dare….
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:45 am
I’d only be asked to justify such an outrageous statement of alleged fact and to provide an unimpeachable source for such a rash inconclusive supposition IMHO
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
You are meant to say first!
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
A bit of sunshine and a half hour course on re-attaching a bicycle- chain to your jeans and you’re away…the perfect day.