Shannon Matthews

[emmelinemay]

March 18th - what on earth is going on? There seems to be more than meets the eye with the case.

Unfortunately, today it looks like I might have been right. The step-father of Shannon Matthews is due to appear in court on Thursday charged with 10 counts of possessing indecent images of children, police sources said.

It was the step-father's uncle who has been charged with abducting Shannon.

Comments

[medusa-nw.livejournal.com]

It's getting weirder and weirder, isn't it?

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

It really is.

Whether or not they're found guilty, neither of those men will be able to return to that council estate - they'll be lynched!

[medusa-nw.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. God, that poor child, and that poor mother! :-(

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I know. I can't even imagine what the family is going through right now!

News is weirder than fiction

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

Shannon Matthews, 2008's answer to John Darwin!

Re: News is weirder than fiction

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I loved that story. It just got weirder and weirder as more details came out. Now he's saying he thought his wife was having an affair, which is why he 'came back from the dead'.

This has that horrible bleak factor inevitable when children are involved :(

Re: News is weirder than fiction

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

Yes, but both stories have that slow motion train wreck sort of aspect to them, plus a sense right from the start that something incredibly fishy was bubbling away just under the surface of what initially appears to be a fairly straightforward story. I feel terrible about finding the Shannon Matthews story so entertaining in a fascinatingly macabre kind of way, but I can't look away.

Re: News is weirder than fiction

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I feel terrible about finding the Shannon Matthews story so entertaining in a fascinatingly macabre kind of way, but I can't look away.

I'm with you there.

Re: News is weirder than fiction

[medusa-nw.livejournal.com]

Oh god, me too!

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

It's not uncommon for paedophiles to deliberately build relationships with vulnerable single mothers with younger children to facilitate access to the kids - that's what I was wondering when the news was on this morning.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've read about that before. I read that often the mother has a sort of awareness sometimes, but either turns a blind eye to it, or just can't imagine it at all.

Years ago, when I was a teenager, Grannie and I were convinced one of my Mum's boyfriends was more interested in me than her. To be fair, they did often try to curry favour with her trhough me, but even as a teenager you can see the line between 'your mum will like me if you do' and creepy. No idea if Mum ever noticed, I didn't tell her and I don't know if Grannie did. Mind you, Grannie would discount Mum's boyfriends on the basis of things like "I don't like him Amanda, he's strange. He never took his hat off once."

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

That's just too awful to think about.

[miss_squiddy]

I wondered whether she'd rn off to the uncle's to eascape the step father and hidden when the police came round in case it was him.

Re: News is weirder than fiction

[misstiamaria.livejournal.com]

Ooooh deadcanoemangate is fantastic. I can't wait for the full story, It's just too bizarre!!!