Shannon Matthews hoax abduction

Just finished watching 2nd part of Moorside. What really got to me was how it would make the TAPAS 7 feel .. If I were a member of the TAPAS 7, I would think about how I have not told the whole truth about events that week...
It almost seemed aimed at all those who have lied in the MADDIE case. I would feel guilt and so small right now if I was any of them... I have a strong feeling that this programme was designed to make these people examine themselves and what they have done... of course that is probably naive.. but it did really touch me.

A very good programme and quite hard-hitting really. The hatred shown towards Karen etc by the people on the streets, then multiply that by x100 and that's what the McCanns will face when the truth comes out.

The whole 'riots on the streets' remarks famously quoted by KM all those years ago is rather ironic as that's exactly what will happen very soon when everything unravels.

@CF - My eyes were closed. Honest.

Coor, bl**dy h*ll. If Andrew has to keep his eyes closed, can I have his share?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/shannon-matthews-case-happened-next/

Snipped:

At the time of the trial, Detective Supt. Andy Brennan, of West Yorkshire Police, claimed that Matthews and Donovan were motivated primarily by money. He also labelled Matthews "pure evil".

"Madeleine McCann gave them the idea - the fund money. Clearly the McCann case was still in everybody's mind. Karen Matthews is pure evil. It's difficult to understand what type of mother would subject her own daughter to such a wicked and evil crime," he said in December 2008.

I seem to recall that cadaver dogs were brought in and gave an alert to some furniture which later was established belonged to someone who died on it (or something similar?).. But I've just done a quick google search and can't find anything in relation to that... Nothing at all...

Anybody else remember it?

unreorganised wrote:I'm finding it increasingly difficult to imagine KM working as a GP, even part-time, locum or otherwise. Has anybody ever come across any actual evidence of it happening, or heard from anybody who claims to have had a consultation with her?

She is

I agree.

Snipped from post upthread:

"Then a supposedly responsible broadcaster makes a programme about a bogus kidnap and brings Madeleine McCann into it. Kate and Gerry are naturally hurt and very perplexed.

Oh, I wonder why that would be? Why would a 'bogus' kidnapping upset them so much?

Surely they would be distressed by a case where the kidnapping was genuine - as in the case of their daughter? Or so they say?


Why would a case that was not genuine be so hurtful?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shannon-matthews-saved-mum-who-9818312

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As the two-part docu-drama The Moorside concluded last night telling the story of how Matthews faked the abduction of her daughter, the question has divided Britain.

Does it take a true evil spirit to hide your child in the hope of getting your hands on a £70,000 reward?

Or is it simple idiocy to think such a ludicrous plot could succeed, dreamed up in the months after millions were raised for missing Madeleine McCann?

Gerry's favourite word I believe.... Ludicrous.

Well ... in the Matthews case the girl was found alive and well.....if the adults were evil in this case, when the girl was unharmed, what would that make the adults in a case where the child was dead - and the adults knew it - and a fund had been raised to find her, surely that would make them much more than evil??

You're talking Hindley/Brady and West's sort of level.

No wonder the Government wanted to keep a 'lid' on it.

I really don't think that the two couples you mention can be compared with anyone who pretends that a child is missing, whether for monetary gain or to cover up an accident due to negligence.

They acted in secret and nobody knew about their crimes until after they'd been caught.

I didn't mean Matthews at all. I meant the McCanns will be held in similar views to the aforementioned when the whole world knows the truth.

Andrew wrote:I seem to recall that cadaver dogs were brought in and gave an alert to some furniture which later was established belonged to someone who died on it (or something similar?).. But I've just done a quick google search and can't find anything in relation to that... Nothing at all...

Anybody else remember it?

Yes I do.

http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/press/47march11/SKY_24_03_2011.htm

Thanks. I did actually find that Sky News report afterwards, but nothing else though.

http://news.sky.com/story/sniffer-dogs-can-hinder-police-work-10488976

Well done Andrew....that almost backs up the McCanns talk of trousers and six dead patients....

I didn't write the Sky article, Bampots.

My point was that the Dogs were right AGAIN when they were brought in on the Shannon Matthews case. They alerted to the scent of cadaver. What they're trained to do.

The dogs were right in the McCann case. So much so that the only way at first for the McCanns to try and explain it away was to come up with some ridiculous nonsense that Kate was in close proximity to 6 dead bodies in her holiday trousers at work just before she went to PDL. And just so happened to take Cuddle Cat with her as well.

Nobody believes that guff. But it's funny how they acknowledged at first how reliable the dogs were before the 'incredibly unreliable' spiel started to follow as they quickly realised they scored a spectacular own goal.

I've seen the dogs picking up on the dead guy's wardrobe in the Matthews case quoted as a "failure" by the dogs, as obviously there was no dead body to be found.

Some people really are spectacularly stupid.

unreorganised wrote:I've seen the dogs picking up on the dead guy's wardrobe in the Matthews case quoted as a "failure" by the dogs, as obviously there was no dead body to be found.

Some people really are spectacularly stupid.

Well quite. They've probably said the same about the wardrobe in apartment 5a as well.

Thanks to Dannii for mentioning elsewhere that there is another programme on 28th February at 22.00 on Channel 5.

http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/91971-ch5/

Case to re-open?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4263446/Karen-Matthews-friend-says-involved-kidnap.html

This is all to do with what Julie Bushby has said.

P.S. The whole of the TV drama is now on YouTube and should be accessible outside the U K, unlike the BBC i-player.

Thank u Freedom, I only got to see the second part, can't wait to watch it tomorrow x

There is a documentary on channel 5 tomorrow night Tuesday 28th Feb at 10pm - Sharon Matthews what happened next.


Premiere

Tomorrow 10pm - 11:05pm Channel 5

Summary

The disappearance of Shannon Matthews was a story that gripped and then appalled Britain. Nine years on, this documentary examines her kidnapping and why people close to the case believe the police should reopen their investigation. Featuring the insight of some of those closest to the case, the programme charts the impact on an innocent girl caught in the lies and greed of those who were supposed to be caring for her.

Oh, that will be interesting too candyfloss, thank u x