Mr. Sausages Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yo...ire/7296756.stm Missing West Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been found alive, three weeks after going missing. West Yorkshire Police confirmed the girl had been found concealed in the base of a divan bed in a house in Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr. A 39-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of abduction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Good news! I imagine that bloke will have some explaining to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sausages Posted March 14, 2008 Author Share Posted March 14, 2008 He'll need a new bed now. And he'll probably be getting one too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immortalpuppet Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Sky is saying they found her at her Grandparents house. Hmmm i see we will have to wait for the dust to settle. One interesting point that her mother made was that the police never found any of her clothing or bag ect so the mother was always hopeful of a happy ending to this Story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immortalpuppet Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Hmmm the Grandparents story has been changed already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebees Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I am so happy to hear this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ai_Droid Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I am so happy to hear this. Yes, top news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oogie boogie Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Did the McCanns think of looking under the bed? It's always the last place you'd think to look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Take Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I can't help but think there's something fishy about this - apart from the obvious wrongness of abducting a young girl, obviously). Not that I want her to be catatonic / hysterical but the report says she didn't appear to be in distress at all - could it be that she wanted to be there, or rather had been persuaded that she wanted to be there - hope not. Just glad she's alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ai_Droid Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Reportedly a family member. Separated parents, a stepfather, etc. Police said all along it was a family member, so there's definately more to this. My first thought was she'd run away rather than been abducted, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. Either way, not often these things end with good news, so it's brill she's alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananaman Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Either way, not often these things end with good news, so it's brill she's alive. Hear hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
localyokel Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I'm glad she's been found and I hope that everything has turned out ok. However to me this just seems to have either been a publicity stunt by a bunch of thicko's or some idiotic fallout between a bunch of brain dead chav's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 My nomination for a Sun headline is 'DIVAN INTERVENTION' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Bazza's take on Shannon's disappearence and also of the tragic death of Scarlett Keeling. It's well worth reading: FIRST WE had the McCanns and missing Maddy: nice, middle class professionals, a massive media campaign, and God knows how many millions flowing into the appeal fund. Next up was little Shannon and her dysfunctional Dewsbury council estate family: a mother with seven children by five different fathers, a current partner who looks a bit scruffy and simple, and the kind of daily routine that didn’t ring alarm bells until the nine-year-old was four hours late home from school. Now we have the appalling tragedy of Scarlett Keeling, the 15-year-old raped and murdered in the so-called holiday paradise of Goa after being abandoned after an argument by her soap-dodging, pikey mother who left her in the care of a boyfriend 10 years older than her. Scarlett subsequently died horribly after staggering out of a bar and onto the beach at 4am, drugged up on LSD, ecstasy and cocaine. Now in some areas of the media, Scarlett’s mother, Fiona MacKeown, has been made out to be something of a heroine for forcing a corrupt local police force to accept that her daughter had been murdered after they at first tried to sweep the incident under the carpet. Well not in this manor, squire. Bleating to the liberal TV channels, whose judgement has been distorted by years of Leftie management, Mrs MacKeown gets away with claiming that “if police had taken more interest in previous suspicious deaths then Scarlett might not be dead now.” Well forgive me, love, but if you hadn’t decided to cart your eight (repeat, eight) children off to India for a six-month holiday, and then left one of them to fend for herself while you cleared off with your partner and the other kids (exact number of fathers unknown, but at least four), then there’s an even better chance that Scarlett might not be dead now. Frankly, the mind boggles. This woman lives on benefits on a caravan site in Devon. Her feral children, aged from five to 19, are the victims of a laid-back hippy upbringing that puts the whims of a self-indulgent adult before the needs of her own children. And what are they doing in India in the first place? Are the social now handing out long-haul plane tickets along with the dole? Why aren’t the children at school? Why isn’t poor Scarlett sitting her GCSEs, instead of rotting in a mortuary on the other side of the world? We are quick to moan when social services interfere in what we see as normal family lives; that shouldn’t stop us asking what they, and the education authorities, knew of the MacKeown clan and what they did – or didn’t – to stop a selfish mother driving a caravan through the rules and regulations. I tell you what – it makes popping out for a plate of tapas and the odd crate of wine look positively normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 This story just gets sadder and sadder. "Uncle" charged with abducting her. Acqusations her step father used Kiddie Porn, family members including her mother arrested for perverting the course of justice. Methinks something is rotten in the (e)state where Shannon lived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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