so shannon matthews' mother is finally on trial

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\link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7725218.stm\and it's quite shocking imo - they drugged her and tied her up

Also are these people just a bit dim? on 5 live tonight they were saying that the plan was for Michael donovan to drop Shannon in a market where he would then "find" her and be able to claim the reward money. Did they really think that a reward would be payable to a member of the family?

Poor stupid woman.

Given the Baby P case, it flashed into my mind today as I was listening to the radio that awful as she is, she's not so bad.

I know, I know, felt guilty as soon as I thought it.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7725218.stm Your link madam!

I just find it hard to believe they thought they'd get away with it. It's just so incredible.

It's probably because they get all their information from programmes such as Eastenders, where incredible things happen and no actions ever have consequences that last longer than 5 minutes.

It seems almost like they're children, they were so amazingly unrealistic.

"Poor stupid woman"??? Poor Shannon who has been through this ordeal and will have to live with the knowledge that it was her own family who did this to her - for money!!!They are obviously stupid and obviously greedy. The mind boggles!

Drugging your child and allowing her to be locked up for weeks and you think she is not so bad?

Did you read the second part of my post or are you too busy frothing at the mouth at the first part?

The woman is incomprehensible to me.

i read she refered to two of kids as "the twins" because although over a years difference in age, they share the same dad.

bit that worries me is the time she was locked in a flat with the man who abused her step dad! not exactly a master plan.

glad they got found out . glad shes safe now.

thick as shit sums the mother up

Yes I did and no I am not frothing at the mouth.

oh to you too.

I just think she's obviously too thick to have the faintest inkling of just how damaging her behaviour is to her daughter. She seems oblivious.

Yes she is thick but she is evil too. She couldn't give a toss if her daughter is damaged or harmed by this whole fiasco.

Oh and because I know you love them so much here is another one

LOL.

I don't know if she couldn't give a toss, I don't know enough about her.

I doubt if she's got as far as even being able to understand enough to give a toss, IYSWIM.

My DD is the same age as Shannon and the thought of what must she must have gone through, it makes me so .

If only you had to go through some sort of mental or aptitude test before you could bear a child. So many kids are born to barely evolved fuckwits who don't deserve them

How were they proposing to guarantee Shannon's silence? Surely at some point Shannon was going to talk about where she had been in the time that she was officially 'missing'. The mind boggles at the stupidity of these imbeciles. Whatever possessed them to believe that they would get away with it?

Just wanted to say nice ing on this thread!

They are truly thick people, I read somewhere they had cooked up the idea from watching an episode of shameless where a similar thing had happened ..... Poor Shannon and her siblings I only hope thwy are all with loving people who take good care of them now .

They are complete idiots but even someone with half a brain knows right from wrong and I cannot believe they thought they would get away with it.

So Police and counsellors would never talk to Shannon once she had been found then?

sweetkitty - my point exactly.

Maybe she had been threatened or bribed and they honestly believed she wouldn't "split" on them? I really am astounded by all this. I'm with Fiveplusbump in hoping that all the chidren are placed with lovely families and can go on to have a more normal life - maybe some good can come out of this whole thing then.

Anyone who takes "Shameless" as a how-to guide is probably too retarded to be fit to stand trial. Seriously, did they think it was a documentary or something?

Mind blowing.

Poor child, in some ways they have done her a favour, god knows what her life would have been with that lot to age 16/18 - hopefully now she will get a chance with some decent people.

the thing that worries me, is that if they are so thick, why weren't people more suspicious earlier?

hair samples indicate she was drugged with her mother's temazepam for MONTHS before she was taken to the house. So awful, but at least the kids have all been removed.

agree with georgimama, awful as it is, this is the best thing that could have happened to those children. now there is a chance that they will get to live with normal decent people that treat them properly rather than see them as meal tickets.

My dp said last night that while it was awful what happened to Shannon at least she and her siblings may go on to have a normal less chaotic life without those idiots bringing them up .

How must Karen Matthews' neighbours and friends feel now, after all the community did for "missing" Shannon? Especially her best friend, sorry forgot her name.

xx