Shannon Matthews Mother arrested !!!!!

[kay1981]

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.

it is human nature to judge.

we all do it. If not on this subject then something else.

I think so too. I think she has been far too cavalier bringing children into the World.

If all 7 children did have different Dads but they were all happy, well-behaved and at school, then nobody would be rushing to judge her.

But her life is chaos, and her children are being dragged up.

Of course it's human nature to judge. Agree with wannaBe at 22:00:33.

how strange though that everyone is happy to rip these people to threads. but the mm's are treated like saints.

no just left 3 small children alone

The McCanns made a mistake, but they had not been bad parents over the last 4 yrs.

The media treated the McCanns badly too (at times).

i am not comparing the 2 situations just the weirdnest of this thread tbh

I certainly don't think the mccanns are saints, in fact have said as much on this thread as well.

but the difference betweeen the mccanns and karen Matthews is that the mccanns neglected their children but were excused because they were seemingly educated/inteligent and because it was done on holiday "everyone does it" (except most don't).

What? discussing somebody who is on the news, on the 'In the news' board?

I may be thick but I don't understand the weirdness.

Wannabe, I did it. I left my dd in a hotel room in Cornwall. Madness, now I know. I was downstairs in the hotel's restaurant. But still. Can't believe I did it now. Never would again obviously.

weird as in how everyone seems to know everything about these people.
from what I have seen on the news they are odd. but then i felt the same about the mccanns.

mc but in reality we don't know that do we? They left those three children alone every night of that holiday, how do we know they didn't do the same at home?

IMO the mccanns brought a lot of the media attention on themselves, not through any fault of their own necessarily, but by virtue of the fact they sought to saturate the media so much with their story, that once the media got bored of no news, they went looking for some. If you sup with the devil....

Goodness this thread has taken some odd turns!

Yes, wannabe, I feel for them, but they were not the first people to lose a child. And when it began to seem as though their child was more important than all the other lost children put together..... well, I guess they should have sensed that they needed to drop their campaign. Not saying I could have faced up to it either, but after about 4 days it was obvious the child wasn't coming back..

wannBe - I can't help but feel that you're rather expoliting this thread to have a pop at the McCanns which is hardly relevant.

I think it is relevant. every one seems so keen to have apop at this family(myabe they deserve it but as no one has been convicted of anything....)
yet with the mccanns everyone was so sorry for them yet they did wrong and neglected their children. but oh that is ok.

didnt the mccann's get some criticism?
they did here
and in the papers
and on street corners

Of course they got critiscised, but that's done and dusted here. As a Natioanl Sport it's so last season.

We've got a whole new set of negligent parents to judge now.

not to this extent
no one has been convicted of anthing yet. but they have been found guilty on here.

oh good lord that's not how I remember talk of the McCanns. They were slated, speculated about and demonised all over the place - particularly so on here. Also by the papers - hence The Daily Express having to apologise unreservedly recently for publishing over 100 articles that were based on anything but fact.

The McCanns have faced far more scrutiny if only because their daughter remains missing, nearly a year down the line.

The Shannon Matthews case is certainly unfolding in the most bizarre manner, and all credit to the Police and SS for continuing to support the child(ren) in this matter and trying to do whats best for the children and the children alone. As for all the other stuff - well, I'm going to sit and wait for the charges and subsequent court case before I pass my judgement.

oh good lord that's not how I remember talk of the McCanns. They were slated, speculated about and demonised all over the place - particularly so on here. Also by the papers - hence The Daily Express having to apologise unreservedly recently for publishing over 100 articles that were based on anything but fact.

The McCanns have faced far more scrutiny if only because their daughter remains missing, nearly a year down the line.

The Shannon Matthews case is certainly unfolding in the most bizarre manner, and all credit to the Police and SS for continuing to support the child(ren) in this matter and trying to do whats best for the children and the children alone. As for all the other stuff - well, I'm going to sit and wait for the charges and subsequent court case before I pass my judgement.

Pennies good post