Shannon Matthews hoax abduction

Like a Louis Van Gaal era Manchester United, they have lost their veneer of invincibility, and become something of a national laughing stock.

Andrew wrote:Can you transfer my other links as well from the other thread...

Have just done it as you typed

unreorganised wrote:Like a Louis Van Gaal era Manchester United, they have lost their veneer of invincibility, and become something of a national laughing stock.

Absolutely. Intentionally so in my opinion.

No coincidence that this Moorside programme has been released the day it has.

ETA - Thanks, CF.

Andrew wrote:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccanns-parents-blast-appalling-9777961

Will let you decide if you want a new thread for this, mods.

I just wonder why they (McCanns) consider this bad timing???


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They criticised the screening of BBC mini series The Moorside, which kept alluding to their ordeal, as being in “poor taste and bad timing”, a close friend said.

Very interesting reactions if true of course.

I haven't seen all the programme yet and there's only been one reference so far to the McCanns.

Madeleine McCann's parents blast "appalling" and "insensitive" BBC drama about fake kidnap of Shannon Matthews

Kate and Gerry McCann have hit out at the mini series The Moorside, which follows the story of nine-year-old Shannon, whose disappearance was made up by her mum Karen Matthews

The parents of Madeleine McCann have branded “as appalling” and “insensitive” last night's controversial BBC drama about the fake kidnap of Shannon Matthews.
The programme has heaped more misery on both families, as Kate and Gerry McCann face the heartbreaking 10th anniversary of Maddie’s disappearance.

They criticised the screening of BBC mini series The Moorside, which kept alluding to their ordeal, as being in “poor taste and bad timing”, a close friend said.
The show follows the story of nine-year-old Shannon who “vanished” from The Moorside council estate in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, in February 2008.
But the schoolgirl’s own mum Karen had callously made it all up.
Inspired by the huge Maddie police hunt just nine months before, her sole purpose was to cash in with an relative by grabbing the reward and any media interview fees.

She was eventually arrested, charged and jailed for eight years. She had been an accomplice in her daughter’s drugging and kidnapping.
Shannon’s shocking “disappearance” after failing to return home from a school swimming trip bore a chilling similarity to that of three-year-old Maddie, who had been snatched from her bed in a holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in May 2007.
Maddie’s plight was highlighted at least three times in the well publicised opening episode.
In one scene Karen’s pal and search co-ordinator Julie Bushby, played by Sheridan Smith, is discussing a candelit vigil after the mum’s TV appeal.
A friend, viewing the papers the next day, said: “It must be working all this, they are offering a reward of £20,000.”
Julie’s young son chips in: “They are offering two and a half million pounds for Maddie McCann. Is that because they’re posher than us?”
His mum replies: “It’s not a contest.”


In another clip while discussing how best to launch the media plea with a detective Karen tells her: “I’ve got my cuddly bear that you wanted, like Maddie’s mum wants her Cuddle Cat.”
The police officer asks: “Is that Shannon’s favourite” and her mum takes a long pause before answering “Probably!”
Karen's appearance before cameras clutching the toy was a near carbon copy to Kate's genuine pleas to her daughter's abductor.
Maddie’s favourite soft toy Cuddle Cat had been left lying on her bed when she vanished.
In the early days Kate kept the grubby pink animal which she later recalled was dirty and “smelt of suntan lotion” close to her.
The grief stricken mum was photographed carrying the toy everywhere.
During the show’s appeal Karen shed crocodile tears as she echoed some of Kate’s words, begging: “I need her home. If anyone’s got my beautiful princess, bring her home.”
A source close to Kate and Gerry said: “The whole Shannon Matthews saga only came about because of Madeleine’s disappearance and what the family wrongly thought they could claw through rewards and interviews.
"The BBC have been trailing it for a few weeks. Kate and Gerry think the whole thing is appalling, and in really poor taste and bad timing.
“They may not sit down and watch every minute of these programmes but they are aware of them and references to their family.
"They feel is very insensitive and the show tries to glorify a terrible crime involving a young girl.”
Neither victim Shannon, now aged 18, nor her family say they were asked to co-operate in the prime time programme and even tried to ban it being aired.
The drama, which continues next week, describes the frantic £3.2 million police search for the schoolgirl.
Hundreds of neighbours joined in the 24-day hunt unaware that her mum, inspired by the outpouring of grief and huge public donations to help find Maddie, was an elaborate hoax.
Shannon was eventually discovered just a mile away, drugged inside the wooden base of a double bed at the home of Michael Donovan, the uncle of step dad Craig Meehan, Karen’s boyfriend at the time.
They had orchestrated the plot to bag the £50,000 reward money.

As well as re-telling the search the two-parter deals with the fallout of the community after they discovered they had been lied to.
The Moorside writer Neil McKay defended not making contact with Shannon’s family, insisting he didn’t want to put Karen back in the public eye.
He said: “We don’t defend her or condemn her, and we don’t make an apology for her crime.”

Maddie’s mum, a former GP, and heart doctor dad Gerry, believe their daughter – who would now be 13, could still be alive.
The couple, both 48, from Rothley, Leics, are hoping “a miracle” reunites them with their daughter soon.
Scotland Yard are working on one last “throw of the dice” lead which Kate and Gerry are praying could solve the mystery.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccanns-parents-blast-appalling-9777961

A bit early off the mark, Tracey. What are you going to say about the judges' ruling?

Hoax... Faked abduction.... All getting associated with the McCanns. And deliberately, IMO.

Talk about when it rains it pours....

Losing the trial and now being linked with the 2nd biggest child abduction hoax in the country has not been a very good week for them. And it'll get worse when the MSM print some of the Supreme Court findings saying they have not been cleared and still considered suspects etc....

Interesting programme!
So do those posting above......think this is deliberate? If so who would place this programme at this particular time on our screens? That is a mighty powerful person who dictates the BBC schedules and content....no?
Conspiracy?

It is a coincidence about the Supreme Court judgement last week and the programme this week as nobody knew when the former was coming and the latter will have been scheduled weeks ago.

Freedom wrote:It is a coincidence about the Supreme Court judgement last week and the programme this week as nobody knew when the former was coming and the latter will have been scheduled weeks ago.

Perhaps they did?

The McCann connection would hardly have been noticed by most viewers without our pal Trace trumpeting how appalling and insensitive it was

Exactly as you say freedom coincidence.

Andrew what make you say deliberate?

"Hoax... Faked abduction.... All getting associated with the McCanns. And deliberately, IMO. "

Whose hand do you think is behind it then?

Bampots wrote:Interesting programme!
So do those posting above......think this is deliberate? If so who would place this programme at this particular time on our screens? That is a mighty powerful person who dictates the BBC schedules and content....no?
Conspiracy?

What is it Textusa says about 'shakers and movers'. Chess game and all that (can't remember exactly), but I think this is all part of the 'game' myself. Turning public opinion... Changing perception.

This programme of course would've been made ages ago. The release date would've been commissioned what a couple of weeks back at most. I think a couple of weeks ago, then there'd be quite a few 'important' people who would know the outcome and date of when the whole verdict thing was going to be concluded... Heck, the McCanns even knew the outcome ages ago hence the transfer of monies.

Just speculating and probably talking bollox

candyfloss wrote:

Andrew wrote:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccanns-parents-blast-appalling-9777961

Will let you decide if you want a new thread for this, mods.

I just wonder why they (McCanns) consider this bad timing???


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They criticised the screening of BBC mini series The Moorside, which kept alluding to their ordeal, as being in “poor taste and bad timing”, a close friend said.

I thought the same candyfloss

Oh my look at the comments under the Sun article, this would never have been allowed before.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2814032/kate-gerry-mccann-brand-the-moorside-shannon-matthews-insensitive/

I know we've probably all had similar thoughts at various times over the the past ten years, but it really does seem now that this whole thing should be brought to a halt, one way or another, for the good of a number of parties.

unreorganised wrote:I know we've probably all had similar thoughts at various times over the the past ten years, but it really does seem now that this whole thing should be brought to a halt, one way or another, for the good of a number of parties.

Yep. And I think this is exactly what is happening before our eyes now.

I would have thought that the McCanns would want to keep their heads down right now.

Perhaps the whole article complete with the "friend of the McCanns" comments was produced by Tracey without any input from the McCanns.

Their ploy of getting their message out through friends and sources might be being used against them leaving the McCanns powerless to stop her.

This sort of sums it up, they thought nothing of the Sun serialising the book, and the headline 'I couldn't make love to Gerry' yet they say this is in poor taste and bad timing WTF !!!!










coco ‏@maybe_coco  · 59m59 minutes ago  
@Papa___Rico - & poor taste ! From a mother who sold stories of her sex life whilst her child is missing #McCann

Quickly thinking about it... Then I would be inclined to think that the McCanns haven't said a word about this. They've got far more pressing things going on than whipping up a media frenzy relating to the Matthews case.

And whipping up a media frenzy is what it's all about.

Do we really think that Tracey K is best buddies.... Or just someone who has been assigned to 'get close' over the years..... I know what my money is on.

I think the media will be less cautious about what they choose to print now after the Supreme Court ruling. I'm waiting to see what The Express will come up with now. They know that K & G are short on funds.

On my desktop the thread on the index page just shows three words, 'They think it's' 

Haha - just a quick glance made me think of the 1966 world cup commentary.... 'they think it's all over - IT IS NOW!'

candyfloss wrote:On my desktop the thread on the index page just shows three words, 'They think it's' 

Haha - just a quick glance made me think of the 1966 world cup commentary.... 'they think it's all over - IT IS NOW!'

Even Geoff Hurst has admitted that he was just trying to waste time by that point, get the ball into the stand, out of play, anywhere as far away from the England goal as possible. He was as surprised as anybody when it flew into the net.

There's a moral in there somewhere. I've no idea what it is, but there is one.