Police have arrested three further members of Shannon Matthews’ family over the schoolgirl’s alleged abduction.
The nine-year-old disappeared on 19 February and was found less than a mile from her home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, three weeks later.
Her mother has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Her stepfather’s mother Alice Meehan, 49, has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Her stepfather’s sister Amanda Hyett, 25, has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Her stepfather’s uncle Michael Donovan, 39, has been charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Her stepfather, Craig Meehan, 22, of Dewsbury, has been charged with possessing indecent images of children.
You didn’t need to be a Detective to work out where Shannon was. In fact, the Detectives didn’t work out where Shannon was. Ahem…..
I would like to draw your attention to this post on March 15th, where I outrageously suggested that the answer to the whole case would lie within the family (and I use the term loosely).
Neither I or the dozens of police officers who supported that view had any inside information, or are happy about the state of the Estates these days.
We just know the underclass and how they operate. I’m just pleased that for once they have had a national stage on which to perform.
I was starting to think people didn’t believe us! I’m sure there is more to come.
Evren Anil, beaten to death in Metrocity.
Gadget Note: Now you only get 4 years for killing someone in the street; don’t you just love those judges!
Is her Mum really 23 with 7 kids?? It said so on the news but I just couldn’t believe it.
What for the first tree hugger who states ‘ basically they, the family, have to come to terms with themselves’.
It’s a terrible shame that Evren Anil who, I’ve no doubt, worked hard at school, did well at his ‘A’ Levels and successfully completed his degree course, was killed on the whim and impulse of the sort of scrote who has never, and will never, make the effort to do anything in life beyond buying a bottle of Lambrini, lighting a spliff and collecting benefit.
As a schoolteacher, I have the dubious pleasure of working with the under-mass for a couple of years before they come to the attention of the police, and the almost universal attitude amongst my colleagues is that we should have a zero-tolerance approach to the ‘chaotic’ behaviour displayed by these young people.
However, the social workers, tree-huggers, judges and political theorists think otherwise and, fortunately for them, their kids rarely have to go to state schools and experience a truly ‘comprehensive’ education, so their decisions never really impact on their own lives.
Because, after a few years of us teaching the bad lads that, whatever their behaviour, they’re pretty much untouchable, that they’re gonna get away with it and, worse, they’re gonna have some concerned adult speaking on their behalf, they’ve absorbed the one lesson that they need to learn: “it’s not our fault, innit”
My heart goes out to the family of that young man.
But as for the two killers – four years? Doesn’t that mean two years nowadays? And with time off for their time on remand, they might well be out in time for Christmas.
Somehow, we’ve got things badly backwards at the moment.
That’ll learn ‘em!
I would love to have known the previous for the two DNA wasters who killed Mr Anil. What do you reckon? Robbery, robbery, robbery, robbery, robbery, robbery………..broken up by a couple of other usual offences and several school exclusions too.
How many cautions/reprimands/FINAL warnings, court appearances etc. How many social workers, probation officers, youth workers, special school teachers etc. How much money has this pointless pair cost us all?
Double tap job the pair of them. Useless, pointless no marks with useless pointless lives – and NO, I don’t think any number of DeeJAy/Rap classes will help them.
As for Shannon Matthews – she’s better off away from the whole mob – let’s hope she gets a nice foster Mum like Chesney from Corrie did – what? It’s only a TV programme! Not real life? Someone should tell Supernintendo Paul Morrison – Head of Sussex Traffic then. Dick!
Cue ‘Whicker Man’ mob scenes on Shannon’s estate – let’s hope all those bloody paediatricians get sorted.
Grate Britten roolz da waves innit!
Without any extra prison space, things are going to stay as they are for a while…
My sympathies too to the family and friends of the victim.
In the new edition of “The Magistrate” there is a sentencing exercise which, briefly, is an unprovoked attack in the street at night by a chap on his partner as he thinks she was looking at/being looked at by another. No lasting injuries but results in girl and their kids moving out of the family home (not the first time there has been an assault) and living in a refuge. He pleads not guilty but changes on the day of the trial. Recommended sentence is 200 hours unpaid work plus appropriate anger management/dv course(s).
Not in my court. He would be looking at an immediate custodial sentence and if the personal mitigation were good enough, it might just be suspended for two years.
However, if the example (the standard? the norm?) is as low as this, how can one justify as much as four years for the murder of a young man? After all, the victim now won’t be able to be a burden on the state at any time in the future…..
No, this is all wrong. We should restore some semblance of order in sentencing. Trivial stuff gets dropped (no more littering by cigarette ends coming to court with a request for costs from the council twice that of a full day trial run by the CPS) and the courts concentrate on more serious stuff….and sentence appropriately. If you drive without insurance, you pay a fine at least equal to the premium which would have applied for that individual in the vehicle. And you are disqualified until you present a certificate of insurance in your own name (or with entitlement by name) with proof that the insurer knows the history.
Assaults start at a high number of hours of unpaid work with compensation as the norm (or payment to a victims charity) . Unprovoked, dv, vulnerable victim etc all start at custody, even for a first time offender with no re4levant previous.
Yes, I may sound like the hanging judge (just an ‘umble jp actually) but the time has come…..
Ranter – I don’t watch Corrie so don’t understand the post or the reference t sussex. If you have a moment, do tell! Ta.
“Police chief slams Coronation Street for ‘glamorising drink driving’ – and wants soap characters arrested” See DM website for the full NON story.
Rex Imperator – just me having a larf at a superintendent seeking the headlines – as usual, and not doing a particularly good job – well I say that, he makes himself and the Police Service look stupid – as usual. does no one engage brain etc these days?
As someone who occasionally watches Corrie – well its on when I walk into the room – all social workers are shown as nice plump motherly caring types – the female ones that is. Males would no doubt show a more avuncular trait.
In real life the women are hawkish, shrill types with short spiky hair and dangly earrings and clearly HATE the police. The male ones are usually wearing badge of some sort on their corduroy jacket lapel, and an aids ribbon and have a trotsky type beard – I love stereotypes me!
Got to say when I saw the family of Shannon Mathews on TV I had to have a little laugh –
Every copper on here will have met these type of muppets on an increasingly regular basis .. It gave me the oportunity to point out to non Job friends the sort of people we deal with every day.
And to top it all they were in their natural habitat , with the usual extra strong lager and devoid of all thought processes , brilliant who needs shameless this is the real thing .
The real unfortunate thing is we all know that little girl has no chance of achieving anything if she remains with these Lowlifers . If anything good comes of this the masses see this for what it is – Modern Britain and what is our answer to these complex socio economic problems – THE PCSO Brilliant -I cant wait to leave this country when my time is done …
#6: Are police officers allowed to become JP’s after they retire from the job? Ama gonna fill dem jails up boss.
Not falling off the chair with amazement here at the way the Shannon Matthews story is developing either.
I would still be interested in a Springeresque DNA test just to be sure who really is the Daddy but it hardly matters.
There will be some people reading this and other Police blogs thinking that the “Estates” can’t be that bad and we exaggerate. Sorry, they absolutely are that bad and the people in them are by and large not cheerful salt of the earth types who would do anything to help anyone.
At best there are a few holding on and fighting to get out. In the middle the beaten, broken failures and victims and at the top the worst vile, venal, vicious, violent parasites and spongers who spend all day every day self gratifying and screw everyone and everything else.
One minor point IG – he’s not her stepfather, he’s just some bloke who lives in her house. Like the last one, and the next one. And the one after him.
Your basic point is bang on, but you dignify these people with that term because of its connotations.
Dan – please see the qualification “(and I use the term loosely)” in both posts.
Life on an inner city estate. I worked on a London overspill estate, not that it was anywhere near London and some of the family situations had to be seen to be believed.
One extended family began with a male, female and several children. They split and took a couple of children each, then they met up with other partners who had their own children. Then they both split from those relationships, again taking a couple of kids and leaving a couple of them behind. This happened again and before long there were at least 6 adults who had some sort of ‘relationship’ and kids who were brothers, sisters and step brothers and sisters spread all over the estate. Luckily the worst that ever happened was domestic disputes. The adults made all sort child abuse type allegations against each other, but there was never any evidence.
4 years, out in 2 for holding a knife to the throat of man to get him to stay still so they could beat him to death.
At least 4 other lives blighted for life and they get such an insanely low sentence.
What can you do when crimes such as this aren’t properly punished.
2 Years (actual sentence) for killing a man, they will be out earlier than the BBC realise having already served 210 days and with early release maybe as little as 12 months more with the pressure on prisons.
How is this a deterrent? How is this justice? Beat a person to death, get nothing but bragging rights and little stretch in a prison.
They should have got 4 years for the knife and a consecutive sentence for the beating of a person to death bit.
The worse thing however is that its not unusual, its normal sentencing, i can think of several cases i have personally known to be even more lenient or travesties of justice.
The Government and their sentencing criterea have got a lot to answer for.
We need more jails and we need them quickly.
It is getting to the point that even murderers are not getting the sentence they fully deserve.
I think that the family of that poor lad have been let down very badly by the Justice system.
4 years ! That is incredible. It is so shocking that at first I thought it was just a misprint. But no, 4 years is what they got.
Why do we keep them on our planet living and breathing our air ??
It’s not more prisons you need its more people to each cell and a death sentence that is rigorously enforced for certain crimes which is enacted after 12 months to make sure you got the right person, they may not learn there lesson but every day inside should be hell on earth.
4 years. I read of the sentence of the killers of poor Evren Anil with tears in my eyes. So thats how much a life of a young graduate with his entire life-one that is likely to contribute positively to society-ahead of him is worth.
The judge should be required to explain why such a lenient sentence was given, because the two criminals will surely offend again, possibly as soon as they are back out. Its a good job Judge Ann Goddard was not presiding over the case of Garry Newloves murderers.
Where is the media outcry for this case?
I am no fan of the death sentence, and our continued membership of the european community pretty much forbids us from re-instating it, but these two criminals-who assaulted the young guy are they type of people who deserve it.
Ranter 4 wrote … I would love to have known the previous for the two DNA wasters … They have been named as Dejon Thompson, 16, of Thornton Heath, south-east London and Patrick Rowe, 17 , from Tottenham. Why not release the previous convictions – would the judge naming them prevent the Drive-By Media from digging for such information?
Why is the photograph of the victim displayed but not the perpetrators? Why is it that apparently either the photograph of the victim is displayed or the the photograph of the perpetrators but not both?
Ranter 4 wrote … Grate Britten roolz da waves innit! … More like Grate Britten foolz n’ slaves innit!
Oracle 1 9 wrote … I cant wait to leave this country when my time is done …
Whichever Western country you are thinking of moving to probably has similar reporting guidelines for the Drive-By Media as the UK. Canada is no different, Australia is mostly desert, the crime rates against Euro-Americans in the USA are astronomical. There is nowhere to run to which has markedly different long-term prospects to the UK.
Freakybacon 18 wrote … The judge should be required to explain why such a lenient sentence was given … Does anyone keep a list of Judge – Charge – Sentence? What would it be called – WigWatch perhaps? What previous does this Judge have? Has she presided over any Thought Crime cases?
WigWatch- now theres an idea. Has it been done? Who is brave/talented enough to take up the challenge?
Anil‘s killers were no doubt punished with the same reasoning that delivered Concurrent Sentences, based apparently on a theory of relativity where time can be repeatedly folded in on itself until it disappears altogether.
It makes sense to name poor Shannon Matthews‘s associates after their DNA sequences. No wonder Shannon‘s mother says children with the same father are twins, the brainwork in finding the exact noun for a family member is pretty offputting.
“Tough on crime and the causes of crime.”
Who said that? It’s a while ago, but nothing has changed
Words and soundbites are useless,unless they are followed by action.
” Life sentence for murder” should read ” You will be detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure until your last breath” and in the interim, you can pay for board and lodgings, not the tax payer.
Personally not for the death penalty, but we all have an opinion.
It seems that the government is not to blame, the courts have sentencing guidelines and that is a matter for the court’s. If crime is down to its lowest level for 30 years, why are the prison’s full?
4 Years, cant believe that one
To be honest I was suprised that they even managed to give under-18s 4 years for manslaughter.. Anyone know why this didnt count as murder?
Bert Rustle 19 wrote: “the crime rates against Euro-Americans in the USA are astronomical. There is nowhere to run to which has markedly different long-term prospects to the UK.”
I guess it kind of depends on where you are. The small town where I work (and in the entire County where I live – even though it is in California) hasn’t anywhere the level of personal violence that it appears to be in your country.
Of course, our Sheriff and Chiefs of Police are not unwilling to issue CCW (Carry Concealed Weapons) permits to qualified civilians (and many households have firearms) so that the scrotes are never certain that they are safe if they commit personal violence, but that probably has nothing to do with it. Nor the facts that we still have the death penalty (even though it might take 20 yrs to enforce), or that we have sufficient prisons so that a “life” sentence pretty much means just that. (And our prisons, unfortunately, fit an old definition of Hell: it is not so much the physical conditions that make it Hell, it is the presence of all of those other sinners.)
It isn’t perfect here by any means, but we’d have to slide a long ways down to meet your current conditions.
Just makes you proud to be British does it not.
Four years? FOUR YEARS? That’s an outrageously harsh sentence.
Something like the three WEEKS served by Nicholas Hague after pleading guilty to manslaughter would be far more appropriate.
OK, admittedly he blinded a 60 year old woman on the day he was released (early) from his manslaughter sentence but that’s not the point is it? It’s not like manslaughter is a serious offence like, err, not paying your poll tax or making racist comments about gypsys like the notorious criminal Basil Brush.
The poor, underprivileged lads who committed this ‘crime’ certainly had no intention of killing their victim. The thought probably never entered their minds as they inflicted fatal wounds by doing a clog dance on the head of their prone and unconscious victim.
‘Criminals’ like these lads are victims too. Lets never forget that. And, as we all know, prison doesn’t work anyway. A community punishment like picking up litter would be far more effective. OK perhaps, in this case, we’d better not let these two near litter for a while but you know what I mean.
Remember to vote Labour at the next election (unless Gordon decides to cancel it in the national interest).
Best wishes,
Jack
Whatever the final outcome in the Shannon Matthews saga I hope this little girl gets a new chance to have a decent life.
Her siblings have now gone into care but like most people, I could not name any of them. And undoubtedly they will have anonymity now whilst their cases are decided. However, for Shannon – there is no such chance for the anonymity other children get when their families breakdown – this nightmare will follow her for all her life.
Her mother lost the chance of being her mother simply by choosing the lifestyle she did. Perhaps when all the court cases are over, Shannon should be given the chance to remain with a new and loving family, maybe one day adopted even, given a name change and a court enforced privacy that she never be identified in the future – (unless she wishes to be so identified once she’s an adult), so that she can have a chance at a decent law abiding life away from the media glare.
This little girl deserves that chance at least.
That poor child doesn’t stand a chance in life (Shannon) with the start she’s had.
And those two kids should be put down like animals.
roy in nipomo wrote … we’d have to slide a long ways down to meet your current conditions. … As the crime statistics in the UK are massaged and poorly reported as well I cannot compare directly. Take rape and sexual assault as an example, as nobody tries to excuse it by poverty. UK statistics are elusive, however the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs has produced a series of spreadsheets http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cvusst.htm. They are referenced in an article by Laurence Auster in Frontpagemag.com http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=%7BF3E3CD97-197F-4D31-BF36-A4CBA45FCB13%7D
The ratio against Euro-Americans is in excess of 3,500 to 1. Follow the links for the details, which would be unbelievable if they were not produced by the U.S. Department of Justice. I would hazard a guess that the UK could not be worse.
Concealed carry does reduce crime, even when only 5% of people actually carry – see John R Lott’s book, The Bias Against Guns.
roy in nipomo wrote … we’d have to slide a long ways down to meet your current conditions. … As the crime statistics in the UK are massaged and poorly reported as well I cannot compare directly. Take rape and sexual assault as an example, as nobody tries to excuse it by poverty. UK statistics are elusive, however the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs has produced a series of spreadsheets http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cvusst.htm. They are referenced in an article by Laurence Auster in Frontpagemag.com
The ratio against Euro-Americans is in excess of 3,500 to 1. Follow the links for the details, which would be unbelievable if they were not produced by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Concealed carry does reduce crime, even when only 5% of people actually carry – see John R Lott’s book, The Bias Against Guns.
Si….. I can understand your disbelief. Unfortunately however, to charge Murder the offender must have intended to kill the person – the intention to kill is paramount, nothing less is sufficient (although I think intention to cause GBH has, under some circumstances, been just enough).
In practice, all the defendant has to say is, “I didn’t mean to kill him, just rough him up a bit” or similar. The prosecution then have an extremely difficult time in proving the required intent for a conviction (hence the much easier Manslaughter charge).
The defence invest a great deal of time in instructing their ‘client’ exactly what lies they need to say (and what not to say) in order for them to get the charges reduced or thrown out*. They must do this, as the majority of their clients could hardly string a sentence together without their help.
Court trials seldom get at the truth. They’re nothing more than a display of ‘theatre’, where two opposing teams of legal professionals try to out perform each other in front of a jury.
Murder still gets you a mandatory Life Sentence (albeit nowhere near that when served). Manslaughter does not. Defence will always go for manslaughter as it gives the best chance of a ridiculously low custodial sentence.
Personally, I think 2 years (with the possibility of early release near the end?) for beating someone to death is appalling, and I’m certain anyone with an once of common sense would agree. Unfortunately, common sense and the criminal ‘Justice’ system parted company many years ago.
*The defence refer to this as “defending my client to the best of my ability” – this is what solicitors say in order for them to be able to sleep at night.
taz #27 I’ve been thinking just that too – she’s not a baby with the chance of almost a whole new childhood. She will soon be entering teenagedom. Her notoriety together with whatever she’s endured in her first 9 years mean she’ll have a difficult time ahead of her. Poor lass.
nightjack #11 (”There will be some people reading this and other Police blogs thinking that the “Estates” can’t be that bad and we exaggerate. Sorry, they absolutely are that bad and the people in them are by and large not cheerful salt of the earth types who would do anything to help anyone.”) I know and I’ve seen that these stories are not exaggerations. Rab C Nesbitt and Shameless are more like documentaries than people think! I often wonder if policy makers, whether at local council or national (or indeed international) level have a grip on this aspect of reality. It must make you guys’ job so much harder, too.
Daniel Ken #3 and the rest of you. I’ve always felt sorry for kids in these families and that culture, but angry with their parents. And yet their parents probably had the same type of childhoods and LITERALLY don’t know any better. If a seven year old kid assaults a teacher by hitting her with a chair, in everyone’s opinion should I be sorry for him because of his unhappy home life, or just angry with him for his behaviour? Genuine question.
AnneDroid
They sure know right from wrong when someone hits them though! And when someone steals from them. It’s only when THEY do it to someone else that their morals are suspended.
Thanks for reading.
I like all of us just hope Shannon now gets a chance to do something with her life and gets to live in a safe and secure family..x
The only way that little girl will get a decent shot is if they totally remove her from all family care, bar them from access forever and put her with a loving foster family.
These incestuous, abusive (often sexually) and neglectful family webs (and i use the word family very loosely) made up of dole scum such as the above almost never produce anything of value to society. They drag down their children to their level and by the time they’re in their mid-teens the die is usually already cast – in a bizzare twist of fate, Shannon may have caught a break with all this!
On another note (sorry IG) i’m disgusted to see that the druggie that stabbed a PC with a needle (the poor sod now has to wait a few months to see what/if he’s infected with) was given a non-custodial sentence. Not only that, the (normally pretty objective) paper has it on page 6, behind the election results…
Am i the only one that feels assault of any kind on a police officer should mean a automatic 5 year prison sentence for which you serve the FULL term with NO time off for remand/custody/good behaviour?
Once word gets around the scum what the punishment is i doubt they’d be quite so keen. Goodbye drunken assaults on officers on a Saturday night, goodbye road rage attacks on officers after pulling someone over, goodbye the type of incident i describe above.
Oh wait, apparently it’s part of your job to get stuck with dirty needles (according to the home office!).
pcmcgarry#452 : ex PCs can become JPs and on my bench we have me (ex Special in three forces) and an ex pc with 26 years in the job. I know of others too.
Main question at interview “how can you convince us you can remain impartial in assessing police evidence?”
I agree with Binarysurfer.
This week, north of the border, BBC Scotland did a program about assaults on Scottish officers.
Last year there were about 13,000 assaults on Police north of the border. Not bad considering there are about 18-19,000 cops north of the border.
Only 3000 of those got into court with the average penalty being less than £200 fine.
I’m sure statistics would be as atrocious south of the border.
Up here, the first crime to be dropped when the scrotes solicitor plea bargains – you’ve guessed it, the Police assault.
I was assaulted by a numpty who head butted me . The whole street saw it, there were quite a few witnesses to it who gave statements. It got dropped.
A colleague of mine was bitten by another scrote, who then plead not guilty which was accepted. All this despite the evidence contrary.
These incidents are quite recent too.
We don’t get much in the way of protection apart from a wee can of spray that may not work and a short baton.
TheBinarySurfer 34 wrote … Am i the only one that feels assault of any kind on a police officer should mean a automatic 5 year prison sentence for which you serve the FULL term with NO time off for remand/custody/good behaviour? …
No, you are not alone. It would be a protection for Police Officers as you are required to “ask questions first, shoot later”. Do you think it would give control of the streets back to the Police?
The way we’re heading, scrotes will get bloody penalty notices for assaulting Police soon!!
The sentences handed out in Britain are recognised internationally as a joke and we are seen as quaint relic of a Police force. This example of letting off a couple of oxygen theives for the brutal killing of a hard working individual is indicative of what a soft touch we are start to finish.
If it wasn’t for the pension, I’d struggle to see why I’m involved in the criminal justice system.
‘Am i the only one that feels assault of any kind on a police officer should mean a automatic 5 year prison sentence for which you serve the FULL term with NO time off for remand/custody/good behaviour?’
Think they might be about 140,000 coppers agreeing with you there and about 40 million law abiding MOP’s.
Stupid bloody question really Mr TheBianarySurfer!
A criminal is someone who gets caught. Anyone else is an entrepreneur or a politician.
Sentence them to business school.
Mate of mine recently quit the force because he was sick of watching others “deliberately winding people up to get arrests to meet the targets”. Reading this blog, and others like it, I think I believe him now. I can see the temptation.
Sad, and disturbing.
Shannon Matthews kidnap ‘may have been cash stunt’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3689998.ece
I hope they make this into a film eventually.
If this had been an Eastenders/Corrie script, there would have been uproar – you couldn’t make this up if you tried
now they’ve arrested the mother of Shannon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7333898.stm
There’s a surprise.
Don’t surprise me. I saw it coming weeks ago. Said so too.
And if this doesnt demonstrate the sheer stupidity, greed, and utter shamelessness of the scummy underclass.. then nothing will..
How long before Polly Toynbee states it becuase of Mrs T though…
Rich – not sure where you’re getting your law source from. Murder is not just the intention to kill, it specifically includes intent to cause GBH. However in this case it was a hard punch to the face that killed the man, which most people would not have expected to be enough to cause death. This makes it manslaughter “by unlawful act”.
However manslaughter still carries no maximum penalty, so I cannot believe how short this sentence was. Even for juveniles who have pleaded guilty, I would have expected a few more years.
John @ 42
My point exactly in a previous post a few weeks ago (copied below). People might say cops are cynical, but we are just realists. We experience the variety of life much more than most. Nothing should surprise us anymore.
“My guess is that this was planned all along by various members of the family in order to be able to sell the ’story’. They created the child, sorry – story – so why can’t they sell it.
Her natural father’s reaction to finding Shannon was a giveaway. He couldn’t have looked more happy than if his £2 each way bet at Kempton had come in.
Why not get the Public to set up a trust fund to pay for extended searches and a legal team – so the family can then use the cash as they see fit. Seemed to work in another recent high profile case…………….”
Allegations from within the family that Mum was having an affair with the abductor. I’m telling you, its time for DNA testing. Well maybe not but who would have thought it?
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=557579&in_page_id=1770
rex @ 36 – and the answer is, please? The one they need to hear, I mean. I quite fancy that when I retire. What’s the pay/expenses like please?
The fact that the mother has now been nicked elicited a hollow laugh, but I have to admit I’m not hugely surprised.
The Custody skippers must know all the family by name by now. What am I saying – they probably already did.
What the family hadn’t hadn’t thought through was how they were going to make Shannon reappear once they had collected the cash! Maybe they thought the press wouldn’t notice. In the genetic pool of life this lot are swimming in the shallow end.
Sorry to many ‘hadn’t’
There is an old saying that truth is stranger than fiction. As the coppers who comment on this blog are wont to say ‘You couldn’t make stuff like this up’. How sadly right you are.
In an astonishing policy ‘U Turn’ the Home Secretary has announced that 14 new jails will have to be built immediately in order to house the ever growing number of Matthews family members arrested by the Police.
N Power have also warned of possible electricity blackouts later today as the new Police Supercomputer starts to analyse the family tree.
And how long will 14 new jails take to build? If the recent refurb of one of custody suites (18months) is anything to go by I’d estimate about 50yrs.
The government has obviously decided 14 new jails are cheaper than safeguard.
Shannon Matthews family are just misunderstood. They are a hard working extended family who have worked all their life and never claimed benefits.
It is us, the police, who are the problem now please leave them alone.
Have just heard that someone from the Matthews’ family has been reading Bobby Dazzler’s blog and the whole family are now all claiming to be suffering from ADHD. So that’s all right then.
Off topic. Has any Police Officer blogged on a torch surrounded by Chinese men in sky blue baby romper suits surrounded by coppers in Hi-Viz jackets precariously balanced on bicycles, surrounded by coppers in Hi-Viz jackets surrounded by …
Has Sir Crony Blair of the Cosmopolitan Police lost it/got it …?
The nasty little scrotes ought to have got life. At the very least they should have been castrated to prevent them from breeding a further generation of braindead, violent pillocks.
If I could do the banjo sounds we use to denote redneck type families at our nick I would…
Ok, I’ve come out of my sabbatical briefly to say this…. Lots of people said (over on IG’s Blog here we were out of order when many of us in Police Blog world stated there was something fishier than a sackful of Kippers about the whole Shannon Matthews Case.
Now I’m not saying we are the experts here at spotting a collection of thick-chav-job-shy-piss-takers….
Actually, yes I am saying we are the experts at spotting thick-chav-job-shy-piss-takers…..
Because we are… we see them every day, and every night.
I’m off tonight, so I’m enveloped by the onset of normality. But come tomorrow, I’ll meet this sorry bunch a dozen times over!
You can’t make it up!
I would point out that it’s not that big a coincidence. “Stepfather’s Uncle” is probably about 90% of the male population of Yorkshire.
Matthews Family. Presume all five fathers are contributing via Child Support Agency -or whatever its called now-towards upkeep of the seven children. Somebody please put my mind at rest.
Theodore Dalrymple has just commented on the Evren Anil case:
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0408td.html
As ever, he’s bang on.
What I’m trying to wrap my brain around -after beginning to read various blogs and books about the CJS in the UK is this –
If all this paper pushing, power to the criminals and heavy handed suppression of the police is so obvious and so rampant – then why can’t it be changed?
I know I’m asking a silly question – the answer must surely be so obvious, but honestly, where did the stat loving, pencil pushing, tick box obsessed system come from and how is it being kept alive?
Surely there are a few million citizens that could vote out the worthless politicians and elect a more conservative, pro-active, pro-police system?
Or am I so lost I just can’t see the truth….
I’ve come back off holiday and am delighted that the police have managed to chase this lot of Matthews/Meehan etc scum down.
We’re now in a `are you thinking what I’m thinking’ society where you can only whisper how fed up you are of a warped system. We can do the blogs on line but can’t speak out loud to voice what we’re all thinking – ie being decent middle class/working class people is now a crime. It’s a crime to teach your children to obey the law, respect the police, respect their teachers and to contribute to society. For working hard and being decent you will now be taxed to the hilt so that a hard core of people can make a full time occupation out of scrounging, and then go on to produce an even larger group of the same.
Last week our very law abiding village endured a night of hell when a rampaging mob of about 30 scum bags from a neighbouring council estate (where they stick all the ASBO lot, trashed half a dozen cars, smashed windows, tore up the recently planted playground, and trashed the two new bus shelters.
One bloke told me he watched them smash his car up, and thought `I’m paying taxes so that they can have afford the beer, the drugs and the leisure time to do this’.
What is the solution to this? So many people I know simply can’t stand much more.
Inspector Gadget, Laban tall has excavated a couple of links: An Economic History of Bastardy in England and Wales an academic paper which has an informative one page abstract intelligible to all and
From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values which is a copy of a speech.
Laban Tall gives very short abstracts and comments at http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2008/04/your-liberal-myths-tonight.html
If nothing else, the information should increase your lawful methods of restraint on the swarm of social engineers which plague the kingdom.