Be nice to have some good news for a change - missing girl

[Fayshun]

Originally Posted by Pebs

It was all a con wasn't it?

With added nonce.

[Snuggle Ferret]

Mother has been arrested .. on the news now.

[randal]

Originally Posted by Pebs

It was all a con wasn't it? I thought that wanted a bit of what the McCanns had so they staged the whole thing.

That's what I'm starting to think, if it's true though it's sick beyond belief that they would use their own daughter to fool the masses with a fake kidnapping.

The Uncle and Mother arrests make it look like this might be the case, but Daddy doesn't fit... well unless he's just a pervert. If so, then bonus for catching the b'stard and lets hope he's picking up the soap in prison for some time to come.

[MarcLister]

Originally Posted by Snuggle Ferret

Mother has been arrested .. on the news now.

Some people were suspecting it was a hoax or something along those lines "to get the attention, support and money the McCanns got" at the time but with every passing day this is looking more and more like the truth. Quite absurd now.

Originally Posted by randal

That's what I'm starting to think, if it's true though it's sick beyond belief that they would use their own daughter to fool the masses with a fake kidnapping.

Perhaps they needed/wanted the cash or just some sympathy and/or their "five minutes of fame".

Originally Posted by randal

The Uncle and Mother arrests make it look like this might be the case, but Daddy doesn't fit... well unless he's just a pervert. If so, then bonus for catching the b'stard and lets hope he's picking up the soap in prison for some time to come.

Well you mean the stepdad? If the mother/uncle/stepdad/step aunt/step grandmother were in on this I reckon the only innocent party, besides Shannon herself, was her biological father.

Also wasn't there some talk in the first few days Shannon was missing that she'd been telling her dad she wanted to live with him?

[Mark]

I wasn't prepared to accept that a family would go so low as to 'abduct' their own child for money and fame. How stupid am I going to look if that's what happened?

If it's true and they end up in prison, they'd better be put in solitary for their entire time there as god alone knows what'll happen otherwise. :/

[Fayshun]

Originally Posted by Mark

I wasn't prepared to accept that a family would go so low as to 'abduct' their own child for money and fame. How stupid am I going to look if that's what happened?

As a parent I can't even begin to comprehend this...

(Not you looking stupid )

[Robert]

Something didn't quite add up from the start.

Oh and I still don't believe the McCanns.

[MarcLister]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7336803.stm

Oh dear.

[Jasper]

Originally Posted by MarcLister

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7336803.stm

Oh dear.

I was just about to post that! You've got to have some serious balls to pull something like that! Those 2 deserve to have the key thrown away, doing that to their own daughter out of their own sheer greed. Utterly despicable in my book.

[Garp]

Originally Posted by MarcLister

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7336803.stm

Oh dear.

It is understood one request to the fund was made by a man claiming to be a freelance journalist who was seeking money to help in the search for Shannon.

The Madeleine fund later received a one-line email asking for money, and on another occasion someone claiming to be close to Shannon's mother made a call to representatives of the McCanns.

Nice bit of pointless journalism there then. Three people who they have no clue who they are contacted the McCann's representatives. The BBC News article, whilst not saying they are linked to the family, suggests it by its very context and tone of it.

They could have done a whole different story "Con artists try to take advantage of Shannon families misery" or whatnot (that happens a lot including a fair bit with the McCanns) with the evidence they've brought, but no, they have to make it seem more sinister than it may well be.