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Shannon Matthews Mother arrested !!!!!

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kay1981 · 07/04/2008 09:22

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.

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chocfest · 08/04/2008 16:33

Well, as soon as this has been proven to be a huge mistake, that craig does not have porn on his pc, that karen was not involved in the alleged abduction, or knew where her daughter was all along, or was planning to leave dad number 5, for maybe dad number 6, and that they have been completely misunderstood, I shall be the first to invite this delightful couple into my home.

BUT I WONT HOLD MY BREATH.............

wannaBe · 08/04/2008 16:35

but when the child porn thing came out craig meehan was arrested and kept in custody, so with him out of the picture presumably the children were not at risk from him.

ROSEgarden · 08/04/2008 16:37

so sad(about trying to get money from madeleine mccann's fund)..her parents must be astounded that these people can 'fake' their own daughters abduction

CrushWithEyeliner · 08/04/2008 16:37

"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?"

You are kidding? How does staging a kidnapping of your own daughter and leaving her somewhere she "might" come to no harm make you a bad Mother?

Trolleydolly71 · 08/04/2008 16:39

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ScienceTeacher · 08/04/2008 16:40

not so much a desperate prat but a greedy prat.

CrushWithEyeliner · 08/04/2008 16:40

KM obviously does not put her children before her Husband(S) and that imo makes her a bad Mother and pretty messed up.

wannaBe · 08/04/2008 16:40

but apparently shannon was close to being taken into care before all this happened

here
so really this isn't just about a fake kidnapping is it?

unbelieveable that some people think that staging a kidnapping in order to potentially extort money from others really isn't that bad. If she could be complicit in faking her own daughter's abduction, what else could she be capable of?

VictorianSqualor · 08/04/2008 16:41

How is it?
'Shannon, you're going to stay with uncle whoever for a little while ok.'
'Sure mum'.

It doesn't have to have been a bundling in the back of a van at midnight y'know.
Mum was supposedly visiting Shannon at the house and if the whole flipping family knew then they probably visited her too.
Ah, she wouldn't have got much exercise though would she.

Hulababy · 08/04/2008 16:42

I am shocked that some people appear to be justifying what she has done (IF she is later found guilty of knowing where Shannon was that is). There can surely be no justification for this?

Think of the huge amount of tax payers money that went into the search for Shannon - serveral thousands of pounds worth of YOUR money - and of the wasted police time, when they could have been doing other stuff! Police worked round the clock, not going home, foregoing holidays and family time.

If this woman knew where her daughter was then of course she has acted illegally and very very wrong, and should be punished for her crime.

I hope they found that she didn't have anything to do with it or knew where she was. If she did she has behaved apallingly.

VictorianSqualor · 08/04/2008 16:42

Crush, by might've not come to harm I don't mean KM was unsure, I mean we do not know if she was well looked after.

VictorianSqualor · 08/04/2008 16:43

Of course there is no justification, she has broken the law, which is unexcusable.

But it doesn't mean she is devil's spwan.

Lauriefairycake · 08/04/2008 16:44

Ok, she might not have physically suffered but I can't imagine the emotional impact that is going to have on her as she grows up.

Really hope that the whole family get some help now....

Trolleydolly71 · 08/04/2008 16:44

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CrushWithEyeliner · 08/04/2008 16:45

Oh come on - that must have been terrifying to be away from home, sensing all the negative energy, not allowed to watch TV or read a paper, kept indoors for fear of a sighting, and let's face it how on earth do we know she was in a place of safety with a Mother whose judgement sucks as mush as KM. Not even touching on morally how disgusting for S when she is old enough to digest what her mother really did..
Poor poor girl, poor children

jesuswhatnext · 08/04/2008 16:45

frankly, i'm appalled at some of the comments on here, in this country we presumed innocent until found guilty!

we DON'T know this woman, we DON'T know ALL her circumstances, we only know what has been reported in the media, and for that, mostly the red-tops, whose editors are desperate for a muck-raking story at the best of times (remember the apologies to the macanns?)

fwiw - i could have 4 dcs by 4 differant husbands (i like weddings but suffered a few mc)) however, KM could, just by looking at me, decide that i am a rich, snooty cow with a big house and more money than i know what to do with. i guess i'm not putting this very well, what i mean is, i will wait until she has been found gulity of something before i presume to make a judgement on her, her family and her way of life.

chocfest · 08/04/2008 16:45

not to mention the cost of this 24 day hunt, the hours of police manpower must have cost an absolute fortune.

And if she knew about it, that is sicker than sick

ScienceTeacher · 08/04/2008 16:46

I am also very shocked, Hulababy

Trolleydolly71 · 08/04/2008 16:47

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VictorianSqualor · 08/04/2008 16:49

Who said she couldn't watch Tv, and how many 9 year olds would be bothered about the paper?

Hulababy · 08/04/2008 16:50

She may not be "devil's spawn" but I would hardly consider her Mother of the Year, or anywhere remotely close! She is a criminal (if found guilty) when all is said and done. This offence carries a possible custodial sentence - I know of people in prison who have done far less wrong than that!

If she was such a good mother this would not have occured. her daughter's welfare would have been priority. Her daughter would not have spent 24 days in a locked house, not going to school, not playing out, not seeing her friends and hiding under a divan bed. However, these things did happen to Shannon - and if t is found that her mother knew about it and did nothing, then she has not done right by her child and has not behaved as a good mother should/would.

ruty · 08/04/2008 16:50

it is the speculation that is distasteful, especially the 5 children by 7 fathers, she should have been sterilized, etc.
It is like Ulrika Jonsson has 4 children by 4 fathers she gets jumped upon as a loose woman, whereas when Ken Livingstone reveals a similar situation no one bats an eyelid.

Hulababy · 08/04/2008 16:51

There you go then - $£5 million of OUR money, wasted for nothing. If that is the case and that woman knew where she was ... how can she not be a criminal and treated as such?

chocfest · 08/04/2008 16:51

I am really shock Victorian, that you are stocking up for KM so much.

I understand the posters who have said 'innocent until proven guilty' but saying she was well looked after whilst being abducted is beyond me!

chocfest · 08/04/2008 16:51

sticking

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