Summary
TELEVISION would not make up Karen Matthews but it made up a lot of her life. She is the very unfunny Vicky Pollard. The kidnapping of her own daughter was falsely rumoured to have been inspired by Shameless, but that show has warmth and wit as well as criminality and despair. Matthews didn't and spent her life watching Jeremy Kyle or her partner playing on his Xbox. In private, we presume, he watched child porn.
Her lies, her play-acting, her looks, the neglect of her own children speak only of hopelessness and detachment. She is now the grim poster girl for broken Britain, a life gormlessly lived on benefits, producing children that are in turn treated as goods to be bartered. We speak often of the commodification of childhood but this case shows that, for some, children really are commodities.See the full content of this document
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For Shannon's Sake, Let's Keep Interfering
I mention TV because the coverage given to the McCann case seems to have been the inspiration for the kidnap plot for which Matthews and Michael Donovan have b...
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