Shannon Matthews Mother arrested !!!!!

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They have arrested her on perverting the course of justice - which i think means lying to the police under oath doesnt it?

Is it at all possible that they knew where she was all the time?

Perhaps cahnnel 4 should now re-show the documentary on shannons family and see how it is received knowing what we know.

yeah apparently that was in paper mum read today!??

Where was this reported?

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..well if it was reported by my mum it will have been the star or the local gazette

trolly-why are you assuming that KM was incapable of a healthy relationship?where did you get that information?

I saw in the Times that she had apparently told a police liasion officer she knew where shannon was.
But it also said about Craig Meehans job so it was probably a bunch of lies...

Diva, Trolley has no information or at least has not admitted to having any. She is speculating massively about lots of things. It makes me feel a bit ill just reading stuff like that.

I suppose it's the fact that she has children by different fathers again, she didn't choose that way, she is just incapable of a decent relationship

Yes, I believe if those pictures did belong to Craig he is an unfit parent, but still don't see where Karen's parenting has been proven.

What people are seeming to forget is that if she knew where Shannon was she knew Shannon was 'safe' so maybe that explains her actions?

trolly-why are you assuming that KM was incapable of a healthy relationship?where did you get that information?

Uuuummmmm.....5 men, 7 children. Does that not smack of a problem with forming relationships?

Haven't read all of this thread but get the general idea:

• hurrah shannon matthews is ok and its great it was all a scam if it was and she wasn't abused and murdered and dumped in a canal

• of course the Matthews want all the latest gadgets, the world we live bombards you with advertising, cheap credit etc..

• lots of kids grow up in undesirable circumstances but not all of them follow in their parents footsteps

• do we really think that being in care is a better place for the Matthews kids (didn't see the documentary) assuming that they won't be long term fostered or adopted. At least at home they will be with their siblings and maybe they will just stay under the radar

• there will always be some people who take the piss but lets not tar everyone on benefit with the same brush

• the government spends my taxes on loads of things I don't agree with - faith schools, bombs, M25 expansion, terminal 5. And I would much rather that the govt spends its money on welfare payments where it might actually help some people and their families rebuild their lives

Google and you will see that there are quite a few sources saying mother confessed to knowing where Shannon was all along.

I thought it was common knowledge when I wrote this:

By CoteDAzur on Tue 08-Apr-08 13:25:29
I would take "smug and righteous" over "made 7 kids by 5 men, then hooked up with 18 yr old boy into child porn, and complicit in own daughter's kidnap" any day.

i think it is plainly obvious that KM was incapable of a healthy relationship!!!

Not having books does not make you a bad parent.

Having had more than one partner does not necessarily make you a bad parent.

Not earning a fortune does not make you a bad parent, neither does living on benefits.

But imo having 4 of your children taken into care does raise some questions over your suitability as a parent.

Rightly or wrongly, when you allow the media into your life, you also open yourself up to the fact that they will uncover things about you you wouldn?t necessarily want published in the national papers.

How Karen Matthews lived her life would presumably have remained her business, except that she then decided to stage the abduction of her daughter, and in so doing she invited the media into her home, and thus into her private life, and the number of children/partners she had then became public knowledge, and that, coupled with the fact she seemingly played a part in her daughter?s disappearance, means that people will have judged her based on all that.

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I suppose at the very least she had sex 7 times. And 7 times was daft enough not to use contraception, and happened to fall pregnant.

I've had sex more than 7 times, and with more than 5 people. (not all at once ), but just have enough education not to be pregnant.

Not sure about these "new" claims that she "knew" all about it - I'll reserve judgement on that one. But can we please drop the whoel "7 children by 5 dads unfit mother thing" .

I didn't imply or say anything whatsoever about Craig, Trolley.

I don't agree that it is Ok to speculate until all the facts are common knowledge.

I didn't say your opinion had to be kept secret, just that it was wrong to speculate. There is a big difference. You are saying stuff as though it were fact, which is just not the case.

At the end of the day (even before she was taken in for questioning) this fabulous mother of 7, has NONE of them under her care.

Some with their fathers, and the rest taken into care.....

I'm leaving this thread now because there are too many ridiculous implications and statements on it. I hate reading it.
I can't stop people saying things they 'presume' or 'reckon' about this family so I think I'll just leave them to it.
Prejudice is very hard to conquer at times.

Nasty misogynistic stuff on here. Yuck.

I didn't say she was a fabuous mother. I don't know her, or her circumstances well enough to judge either way.

I wonder how many people we know and see eveyr day have had their children in care for a short period, for some reason or another? there are people on this website woh have mental health problems who may have needed care for their children at one point or naother. Who's to say the fathers aren't financially in a position to provide a higher standard of living?

Were they not taken into care after the whole child porn thing came out?
That may have had nothing to do with her?

If she staged the kidnapping then she was a prat, and probably a desperate prat to believe that she wouldn't be found out and would get money for it, but her daughter came to no harm, and could've been well looked after during the 'abduction' so how does that make her a bad mother?

Whether she has 20 children by 20 dads or one by one she has (probably) been involved in a fake kidnapping in which it has come out that her partner (possibly the man of her dreams, who are we to judge love?) has child porn on his computer, but she has done nothing more than be 'stupid' enough to think her plan would work, or decide not to tell the police her possible lover actually had her daughter once she knew he did.

karen matthews knew where she was
according to the times which is one of the less sensationalist papers.

They have also said on the bbc that the trustees of the madeleine mccann fund have been contacted by police to confirm claims that they were approached several times for a large cash donation.