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.

Back to original point of thread ....
I remember wondering why on earth the police played the 999 call on the news and why it took her so long to call....

before I go to bed. can someone explain something to me. why is he called her step father as I though he wasn't married to the mum(or did I get that wrong)

I think it is relevant.

When Shannon went missing there were a lot of comparisons with the Mccanns in terms of how this was reported. How the press weren't reporting as much because she was from a working class background. When the documentary was made there was a lot of talk of the Mccanns, how they had been given money etc etc. And now the implication (I say implication because nothing has been proven yet) is that this abduction was faked because the family thought that people would give money as they had done to the mccanns.

People see fit to judge this family (me included), and yet when Madeleine went missing people who dared say anything against them were shouted down, told they should be ashamed of themselves for daring to judge a poor innocent family who had lost a child, and how was Kate Mccann supposed to feel if she logged on to mn and read all this. And yet the mccanns are guilty of neglect. They left those children alone but for some reason they are vindicated by the fact that one of those children disappeared, something which would not have happened if they had been looking after her properly in the first place.

So why is it deemed ok to judge one person and not another? Bearing in mind that the Mccanns are still suspects in the disappearance of their daughter, so no less innocent than Karen Matthews and her family.

agree 2shoes - why didn't they say "her Mums current boyfriend"

Hasn't the abductor uncle been taken to hospital for "harming himself"?
Curiouser and curiouser...

Well, under Portugese law yes, they are official suspects.

In this country it's innocent until proven guilty isnt it?

S'why I said I'd sit back and wait to see what charges were generated and what comes up at the court case.

I have to say though - I found the two cases difficult to compare. The McCanns made a stupid stupid mistake. The Matthews - if what we have been led to believe is true - no mistake has been made, it's all been deliberate, and the child seemingly doesnt want to go back. They are very different cases which, if I'm going to be drawn on it at all - I'd say would have very different outcomes. The greatest difference with them being the fact that the British Police seem to be doing a much better job thus far........

sleepy, those things are not facts, they are allegations. No-one has been convicted of anything, yet.

The mother's boyfriend has indeed been charged but he has not been convicted. So it is not a 'fact' that he is responsible for child porn on the computer. And it is not a 'fact' that her extended family were 'holding her hostage'. We have to wait for the trial(s) and verdict(s).

know what you mean wannabe.
one rule for one not for anotehr.

snobs.
we are all judgemental snobs that's what it is,

I may be a little less than curent on this but as far as i was aware the mother has only been arrested for perverting teh course of justice. she has not been charged with anything.

being arrested means very little. just that you will be formally questioned, under caution.

perverting the course of justice could be over something like givng her partner a false alibi, maybe she lied about how involved the uncle was with her partner.

It aggrevates me how a small piece of information can be twisted and stretched into such speculation.

Wannabe, the McCanns were declared suspects by an incompetent copper who made a shambles of the investigation, is under investigation himself for his handling of another missing child case, and has been replaced. So I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

2shoes - step father isn't really a legal term.
he is referred as Shannons step dad as he is living in teh family home and acting as a parental figure to the children.

judgemental snobs or a bunch of fishwives

Yup, it appears she was found with a member of the extended family BUT he has not been found guilty of kidnapping or any other crime yet. Wait for the trial.

I am appalled by the missing apostrophe in the thread title. More appalled by that than Shannon Matthews' Mother.

The more is degenerates into Shameless the harder it is to control the inner snob.

Reports today that Karen Matthew's was arrested on sunday night due to admitting to a Police Liaison Officer that she KNEW where shannon was all along!!

This is incredible if it has an ounce of truth in it. I gather cops have been granted more time to question her...

The papers (The Times, before anyone starts accusing me of believing the Daily Mail) are saying the mother was trying to leave the stepfather for the uncle who has been arrested but got cold feet. And the uncle snatched Shannon off his own back. But the mother worked it out PDQ - so it seems current thinking is she didn't plan the abduction but knew what was going on. Blimey.

Reminds me of that morality tale we used to get when I was little about how if you told one lie it would lead to more lies and more lies and get completely out of control. Until the whole world exploded or something.

If this theory is true, I'm surprised the mother hasn't got a better way to leave a relationship, she's had enough practice.

So, does that mean that she felt she couldnt say that she thought shannon was with the uncle because it would blow her affair into the open?

OMG!

And does it mean that she was trying to send a message to him saying in the media it is 'someone I know' 'trying to get back at me'

Crikey, what sort of mum would do that, knowing her child was missing from, and would leave her there to save her own skin?

should say missing from 'home'

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Maybe she knew her boyfriend's uncle was OK as in would look after her daughter reasonably well and was just too scared to 'fess up in front of the police world's media? Very wrong and stupid but can see how it might have happened.

sky news saying there could be more arrests and that the police are very interested in Karens movements during the 24 missing days, strange, maybe she was in touch with shannon, but surely nobody would be that daft?!

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