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Originally Posted by InOne

Same goes with class. Maddie came from a middle class family and got loads of coverage. Whilst Shannon Matthews came from a working class family and didn't get nearly enough. Shannons turned out to be 10x more horrific and sinister as well.

Oh I don't agree with that - the Shannon Mattews story was in every media outlet there is - reporters were crawling all over the place for a long time - I recall repeated and numerous interviews at the parents home, at community centre within the area she lived, with neighbours, friends, fund raising events for rewards and all sorts of stuff being covered. That was given massive media coverage.

In fact, IIRC, there was a high degree of criticism being thrown around because the parents were being 'viewed' in a less than sympathetic light - and that was being skewed as due to them being from the poorer side of society - when in fact, it turned out to be the correct view being taken. Remember all the pornographic images found on the 'husbands' pc, of all the holes in the story from the mother, all the questionmarks - yet the police took a bashing for not trying to find the person responsible, for not trying to find Shannon - when in fact, they were right to home in on the parents - as they were in fact the 'abducters', the mother was responsible, and I'm quite sure the police knew they weren't looking for a body very early on. Sometimes it's not until we see the full picture, that reasons which seemed odd at the time, become crystal clear.