SHANNON MATTHEWS 9 - Dewsbury, Yorkshire (UK) - 19/02/08

merlynsam wrote:I think you have something there KJ. However, Shannon isn't back home as far as I understand - she and her mother were allowed to have a meeting.

The newspaper reported that they were allowed to have a meeting now because the initial police questioning has been completed. Hmmmm.....I think I go along with your suggestion - the step-dad is locked up so the Mum and Shannon can be allowed to speak without it prejudicing the investigation.

Did you notice that he didn't apply for bail because he could not supply an address?

But should we take some good news from this? Surely, the police must think that Karen Matthews has nothing to do with the child pornography issue. (Apparently, she had her own computer and Craig Meehan had his which the children were not allowed to use.)

merlynsam wrote:Thanks Twiglet - so this computer was not one of the ones seized by the police.

I wonder if this is one that the children are allowed to use (for homework). Oh - just another mystery!

Tezza wrote:

merlynsam wrote:Thanks Twiglet - so this computer was not one of the ones seized by the police.

I wonder if this is one that the children are allowed to use (for homework). Oh - just another mystery!

Not being rude here, but this is a poor area and people don't have a lot of money. In fact it was said that others had access to the pc that child porn was found on, because not many people have internet access in the area.

To have more than one pc is quite unthinkable to me if money is so tight.

merlynsam wrote:Tezza

I know what you are saying - I was trying not to jump to conclusions. The other thing is though that the "Police have also carried out routine checks on computers owned by relatives, neighbours and pals" so there are more computers around. They might not have internet access but they could purchase disks and download them to the hard-drive.

(See - I have ended up thinking about the possibilities. Just tell me to wait for the news!)

Tezza wrote:

merlynsam wrote:Tezza

I know what you are saying - I was trying not to jump to conclusions. The other thing is though that the "Police have also carried out routine checks on computers owned by relatives, neighbours and pals" so there are more computers around. They might not have internet access but they could purchase disks and download them to the hard-drive.

(See - I have ended up thinking about the possibilities. Just tell me to wait for the news!)

This is what makes me wonder.
If so many had access to the pc, how can they charge him?

Or is this just what he is saying?

karenjane wrote:

Tezza wrote:

merlynsam wrote:Tezza

I know what you are saying - I was trying not to jump to conclusions. The other thing is though that the "Police have also carried out routine checks on computers owned by relatives, neighbours and pals" so there are more computers around. They might not have internet access but they could purchase disks and download them to the hard-drive.

(See - I have ended up thinking about the possibilities. Just tell me to wait for the news!)

This is what makes me wonder.
If so many had access to the pc, how can they charge him?

Or is this just what he is saying?

Maybe he'd put a password on, something obvious like his daughter's name which led them to him?
Still doesn't make it certain it was him using it but I'm sure the police have other things to go on.

Tamsin wrote:From The Mail online

The mother of Shannon Matthews was said to be distraught last night after it emerged that three of her other children are being looked after by social services.

Karen Matthews, 32, who has seven children by five different fathers, was believed to be staying in a "safe house" after the disclosure.


"She's absolutely devastated," a friend said yesterday
"She lost Shannon for 24 days and now this. She's in pieces and I don't think she can cope with much more."

The dramatic development came as Miss Matthews's 22-year-old boyfriend, Craig Meehan, appeared in court accused of possessing 130 indecent images of children.

The supermarket fishmonger was yesterday remanded behind bars for "his own protection" at the end of an 11-minute court hearing, having declined to make a bail application.


Friends of Miss Matthews said they believed she had ended her relationship with Meehan.


Detectives found the images after seizing two computers from the home Meehan shared with Shannon and her mother in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, on February 20, the court heard.

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twiglet wrote:The children are the most important ones in this case now and I hope social services does what's right for them whether it be back with their mother with lots of help to hand or whether it be with new families that will show them love and understanding!! They had no choice in all of this, Karen did, she chose to bring all these men into her childrens lives, I just wish that she had been strong enough to know that she could have had a very different life with her children, without the need for a man in her life!