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2.20.2008

HI Brian,
 
A 9 Year old girl has gone missing, I have posted information below, Also there has been a  sighting of Madeleine in France, I wont forward you the details as Im sure you have received them already. You mentioned that you have not received any emails regarding Madeleine for a few days, its probably because you mentioned that you cant fully concentrate on her case anymore, people might have got the impression that you are giving up, you probably don't realize it brian, but we are all pinning our hopes on you finding Madeleine.  Also Matthew (Daily Merlin) is not posting as much info either.
 
Regards as Always
 
Elaine

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You're right and I should have thought of this...I have heard of the sighting in France, it's actually on CNN in the USA now...I hope it's her.

Will add this case to my pending list.

Brian
 
Huge Police Hunt For Missing Schoolgirl

Hundreds of police officers are searching for a nine-year-old girl who has been missing from her home since yesterday evening.

Missing: Shannon Matthews

Shannon Matthews, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, failed to return home from school and was last seen on playing fields at around 7.30pm.
She is believed to have stayed for after-school activities at West Moor Junior School.
West Yorkshire Police have launched a search of the surrounding area for Shannon, who they said has never been missing before.
Speaking outside Shannon's school, Chief Superintendent Barry South said there were now more than 200 police officers working on the inquiry.
Mr South said the force had closed its nearby training facility for the day to help in the search.
He said he would not go into any details about the police inquiry and said his priority was simply to find the nine-year-old who he said was "very vulnerable".
Asked how Shannon's mother is coping, the officer said: "It's a traumatic ordeal for any parent.

"We've got officers with her at this moment in time.
"My priority is locating Shannon safe and well."
Shannon is described as white, around 4ft 1in and of slim build, with shoulder length, medium-brown coloured hair, which was possibly tied up in a ponytail. She has blue eyes and freckles.
She was wearing a black school jumper with a school logo on it, a white cotton t-shirt, black trousers and a black, waist-length coat with fur round the hood.
She was also wearing pink and grey "Bratz" furry boots.
Her uncle, Neil Hyett, 36, said dozens of local people had been out until 4am looking for the little girl.
He said his niece, who lives next door to him with her mother, Karen, and stepfather, Craig, had not gone missing before and was a "timid" child. He said: "We are extremely worried."
:: Anyone with information is asked to contact

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Please can you visit the link below which will lead you direct to our police website where you will find details of the 9 year old girl who did not return home after school and has been missing nearly 24hrs with temperatures last night reaching to -9 degrees cenitigrade

http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/section-item.asp?sid=12&iid=4624

Please can you do an RV as soon as possible. 

Thanks Brian You are truly wonderful

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Will do...and thanks.

Brian


CASE # 610 Shannon Matthews (2.21.2008)(LOCATED)

This RV was correct

http://www.helpfindshannon.org.uk

possible related: DD549  RV610

"Jill, 22/02 west high school 478311629, red white sign, she is with a friend and will be found"

"brick house 6 - K, close to home SW?"

Hopefully Shannon has already been found by now, if not I suggest that police account for anyone she could possible know...it might be possible that she when with someone named Jill and is staying in a brick home.  It looks more like an apartment building to me.  I did not find a West High school, but I did find a Westborough High School on google maps in the area of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.  This is the area the request says she went missing from.


2.22.2008

Brian this is urgent could you help find Shannon as she has disappeared please!
 
sylvia

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/35768/Shannon-spoke-of-living-with-father

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Hi, this case is open, #610...I believe she is safe and most likely will be found soon.

I'm also working with the way I record my dreams to provide more specific details of events that have or will happen.

This should help in this case and others.

 

Dear Brian,
Yet another young person has gone missing. Could you post her description and do a reading?  I have contacted the Yorks Police with Rob Lindblads details, but they seem blind to these things ....... what sort of a world do we live in when these things are commonplace?  It really shouldn't happen.
Many thanks for all your good work. It is making a difference.
Chris

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Hi this case was opened on the 21st, case number 610.

Brian


2.23.2008

Town

Police hunting for missing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews have searched a pond and about 200 houses amid growing fears for her safety.

Divers search for missing girl

Shannon has been missing since Tuesday afternoon, when she failed to return home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, after a school swimming trip.
Police initially believed she may have gone looking for her father's home and got lost on the way.
Around 250 officers, as well as friends and family, have been searching day and night for five days. They have failed to find any trace of her.


2.25.2007

Hi Brian, 

Please find below some links and headlines from newspapers regarding

Sharron Matthews. 

Police fear Shannon Matthews was abducted

Telegraph.co.uk

 

2.

New pictures of Shannon released

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3.

Fears rise over missing Shannon

53 minutes ago

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4.

Sharron Matthews

Man, 43, overpowered in flat then 'crucified'

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5.

 Man, 43, overpowered in flat then 'crucified'

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6

SHANNON: MAN CRUCIFIED BY VIGILANTES

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7.

Shannon Matthews helper is found nailed to a cross

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Shannon Matthews helper is found nailed to a cross

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9

 'Attempted abduction' near Shannon Matthews

Last Updated: 2:14pm GMT 26/02/2008

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Police search home of missing schoolgirl's uncle
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 4 hours ago
A dozen police officers today conducted a fingertip search of a house belonging to the uncle of the missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews. ..

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11.

Kate and Gerry McCann pray for missing Shannon's safe return

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 Regards  

Alex

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Thanks Alex, will post these links and do another RV on this case...I thought she would have been found last week.  I did not get any bad feelings from the dream...and I hope I'm right.

The link above says police have searched searched the home of her uncle, can you find a photo of this home?

Brian 


Hi Brian,

I found 2 schools near Dewsbury -      

West End Middle School,

4.7 miles from Dewsbury BD19 3AE Kirklees, Cleckheaton

And     

West Leeds High School,      

7.9 miles from Dewsbury LS12 3DT Leeds, Leeds

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Thanks, will post this ASAP.

Brian
 


2.28.2008

Hi Brian,

I found videos that show the homes in the area but not the uncle's house. I would imagine his is similar. I cannot find photos of it yet. However below is an interesting selection of informative videos from Sky and maps and a sketch of the alleged abductor of the other Shannon .

Hope this helps.

Regards

Alex

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Thanks Alex, will look at these links.

Brian

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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/36270/Did-prowler-snatch-Shannon-in-the-fog-

Six police and two scene-of-crime experts made a finger tip search at the home of family best friend Peter Brown, 34.
The house is where Shannon’s distraught mother Karen, 32, and stepfather Craig Meehan 22, are currently living. They have said they cannot bear to go home without their "little princess".
 

Earlier, 11 officers spent an hour searching the house of Shannon’s aunt and uncle Neil and Amanda Hyett. Both properties flank Shannon’s home

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Shannon's grandmother is out there searching ields etc for her grandaughter.

http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/Missing-Shannon-Brighouse-grandma-still.3823005.jp

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http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/SEARCH-FOR-SHANNON-Hope-is.3819357.jp

Police sniffer dogs have also been called in, and it is rumoured that experts from the anti-terror squad are helping to examine CCTV footage.
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http://www.anorak.co.uk/tabloids/181247.html

Extracts 

Shannon Matthews is missing. Is the media treating her case the same way as it views Madeleine McCann? And, in light of missing Madeleine, is there now a protocol for what occurs when a child goes missing

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I agree it is essential that we have a 'specific 'protocol' in place 'when a child goes missing.' The public for too long has been in ignorance of what is going on within their own homes and in their communities with regard to child abuse. This investigation so far appears to be well organized - the result is in the outcome however. We need to study successful outcomes from all over the globe; use strategies and co-ordination and co-operation worldwide ; study known patterns and psychological factors on abductors ; have paedophiles shamed and blamed and listed on a central board on the internet, television and anywhere they can be viewed by the public. We as a nation of supposedly caring adults should develop this concept and impliment it. Goverment and child agencies involved in child-welfare and so on. should do this in order to create and develop a plan of action - regarding what essentially needs to be done - when a child goes missing. How many children's faces must we see listed as 'Missing or abducted' before we take action? We need bodies both in government and elsewhere who we can believe in and know they possess integrity .

Alex.

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http://www.anorak.co.uk/tabloids/181247.html

Anguished mum Karen and stepdad Craig joined 300 neighbours on a march through streets near their home.

Children carried a banner showing the youngster’s face and a hotline to ring with information.

A hotline. Like Madeleine. A vigil. There is picture of Shannon on her birthday.

Balloons bearing pleas for Shannon’s safe return were released during last night’s vigil.

THIS IS LONDON: "Police search house of missing Shannon’s uncle as detectives treat case ‘as seriously as a murder’"

A dozen police officers conducted a fingertip search of the house belonging to the uncle of missing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews today.

Officers from West Yorkshire Police filed into the property in Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor which adjoins the home of the schoolgirl who disappeared last week.

The house belongs to Neil Hyett, Shannon Matthews’ uncle, and his wife, Amanda.

Detective Superintendent Brennan, who is heading up the search, says:

"I’m convinced that if Shannon had run away that night of her own volition, in a den or hideaway of some sort, we would have found her by now - over a week on from when the investigation opened.

"It is very rare in searches of this kind that a girl of Shannon’s age should be missing for this long without any clues pointing to her whereabouts.

"It is extremely concerning and we are now looking at this on a scale as serious as a murder investigation.

"It can now be said that the tone of our enquiry has changed to a bleaker outlook.

"The shift in emphasis is that we are now looking for individuals who may have been seen on the day of her disappearance, acting suspiciously, or unknown to the local community.

"We are also appealing for anyone who may have friends or family that may have been behaving strangely since Shannon went missing, to come forward.

"At this stage, any shred of information, however insignificant it seems, may help.

"We have a grave concern that she may have fallen into the wrong hands but no arrests have been made at this point, and I must stress at this point that we are not ruling out any possibilities as to what might have happened to her."

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THE OTHER SHANNON=SHANNON SELBY 12 ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION -lived 10 miles away and this happened earlier on same day Shannon Mathews went missing.: Daily Mail

 

Moor, West Yorkshire, it also emerged that another girl called Shannon escaped an abduction attempt 10 miles away earlier the same day.

Shannon Selby, 12, was walking to school alone in Wakefield when a man pulled up and ordered her to "get in this car now".

She ran away as the man parked and made to chase her on foot.

She reached home safely and her mother rang the police.

An efit of the attacker was released yesterday.

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Interesting comment and some more details re Shannon's family -re size etc

Allison Pearson: "Poor Shannon was already a lost child"

When Madeleine McCann went missing, her parents soon came under attack for leaving their daughter alone in a holiday apartment just a couple of hundred yards from where they were having dinner.

At the time, critics claimed that if the middle-class McCanns had lived on a council estate, they would have been in trouble with the police for neglect. So where is the outcry over the disappearance of Shannon Matthews?

Only nine years old, Shannon was reported missing by her mum, Karen, at 7pm last Tuesday when she had still not walked the mile home. She was last seen leaving school at 3.10pm.

Four hours is an eternity for a little girl to be out on a dark winter’s evening. And Shannon was afraid of the dark. Why did no one walk with her or care where she was?

Karen, who has seven children by five fathers, admitted that she had found a note scrawled on her daughter’s bedroom wall saying that she wanted to go and live with her biological dad in Huddersfield.

Shannon’s friends say she told them she didn’t want to go home. But Karen insists Shannon was fine and enjoys a good relationship with her current boyfriend, 22-yearold Craig.

"Only on Monday, they were having tickling fights and telly cuddles. She views him as her dad." Oh really? In that case, why was Shannon so desperate to be reunited with her real father? No one can doubt Karen’s anguish.

The poor woman can hardly speak, except to sob to the cameras: "Shannon, come home, please come home." But allowing a passing parade of boyfriends to play tickling games with your vulnerable small girl is, at best, naïve

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DAILY TELEGRAPH: "Shannon ‘may be in the wrong hands’"

Reports that an alleged abduction attempt of another girl on the same day that Shannon disappeared a week ago were being looked into by police.

According to reports, a man in a gold Ford Mondeo tried to coax a 12-year-old into his car at about 9am in Wakefield, about six miles away.

The girl ran away from him.

THE TIMES: "Abducted, abused… survived"

Lisa Hoodless and Charlene Lunnon were abducted and raped nine years ago, aged 10. They found strength in each other to survive the four-day ordeal and, remarkably, to rebuild their lives

Alan Hopkinson was found by police with the girls huddled together in his front room. He pleaded guilty to the crime and was given nine life sentences.

And that, for the public at least, is where stories like this usually end. Children don’t often survive adbuction by men such as Hopkinson, a truth that weighs heavily on the mind as we await news of nine-year-old Shannon Matthews, missing now for more than a week. If they do survive, we rarely hear from them again.

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http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:NQLk__88kZoJ:www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Police-at-uncles-home-as.3815887.jp+shannon+matthews+uncle%27s+home&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=uk

She got off the bus at West Moor Junior School at 3.10pm but then failed to make the five minute walk to her home with friends.

AND OTHER GIRL -more details re her alleged attempted abductor:

Police in Wakefield are investigating the alleged attempted abduction bid of a schoolgirl between 9am and 9.10am last Tuesday in Oxford Street, Bell Vue, Wakefield, when a motorist asked a 12-year-old girl to get into his car.

As he reached over to open the passenger door, the girl ran off. He attempted to run after her but she managed to escape safely, police said.

The man is described as being in his 20s, of slim build, with dark skin and short dark hair. He was clean shaven and had a large nose.

He was driving a gold-coloured saloon car, about the same size as a Mondeo, with an aerial at the back of the vehicle
.

The full article contains 447 words and appears in n/a newspaper.

Last Updated: 26 February 2008 12:28 PM

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OTHER GIRL S SELBY AGAIN

Sketch of her alleged abductor.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/02/26/detectives-probe-attempted-abduction-of-schoolgirl-just-hours-before-missing-shannon-matthews-vanished-89520-20332427/

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/02/21/missing-shannon-matthews-sighting-is-significant-say-police-89520-20326743/

signiicant sighting re Shannon Matthews:

 

Detective Superintendent Andy Brennan told a press conference an adult claims to have seen the youngster some time between 9.15am and 9.30am yesterday, a few streets away from her home in Moorside Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

By Mirror.co.uk 21/02/2008

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/26/nshannon226.xml

 

Police searching for missing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews fear she may have "fallen into the wrong hands" after deciding to walk from school alone.

 

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Some extracts from article

Shannon has not been seen since suggesting to friends that she was considering not going back to her home on Tuesday last week.

She appeared unhappy to classmates as they returned by coach from a swimming lesson before not taking her normal route from the school gates.

Mountain rescue teams and specialist dogs, trained to find bodies, have been drafted in to take part in the hunt for her in Dewsbury, West Yorks.

Det Supt Andy Brennan, leading the inquiry, said: "What concerns me greatly is that she may have fallen into the wrong hands."

 

A similar operation was carried out on the adjoining house in Moorside Road on the Dewsbury Moor estate where her uncle Neil Hyett and his wife Amanda live.

Other properties belonging to members of her extended family are also being searched as part of the inquiry.

and the coach returning from the school swimming lesson last Tuesday were released in the hope of jogging memories.

Mr Brennan said: "The coach is maroon and appears very distinctive in colour. I would appeal to anybody who was in the area last Tuesday to think back to that time."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/7264872.stm#map

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/7264872.stm

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Sightings

19 Feb 1500 - CCTV shows Shannon leaving Dewsbury sports centre

19 Feb 1510 - Gets off bus outside school to walk home

Reported sightings

19 Feb 1700-2000 - Park at junction of Staincliffe and Heckmondwike Roads

19 Feb 1830-1930 - Playing fields behind Westmoor Junior School

20 Feb 0915-0930 - Moorcroft Road

Search locations

Pond behind Dewsbury & District Hospital, Heald Road

Home of Shannon's uncle, Neil Hyett

All possible routes home from Westmoor Junior School

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/27/nshannon127.xml

West Yorkshire Police searched the house adjoining her home in Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor, which belongs to Neil Hyett - Shannon's uncle - and his wife, Amanda.

Officers spent about 50 minutes in the property before leaving. They said the search was routine.

Police have also completed a "routine" search of the semi-detached house where Shannon lives with her mother Karen, 32, stepfather Craig Meehan, 22, brothers Tony, 11, and Cameron, five, and two-year-old sister Courtney.

Other properties belonging to members of her extended family are also being searched.

Shannon, aged nine, has not been seen since suggesting to friends that she was considering not going back to her home on Tuesday last week.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1307065,00.html

In this video shows quick glimpse of Shannon's home and

Friends & Family Hold Vigil 26/02/08

Friends and family of missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews have held a vigil in West Yorkshire. This comes as police have said the nine-year-old "may have fallen into the wrong hands

Below video there are 19 PHOTOS- click on them they show investiation and storm drain searches, ponds and also the houses.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1306627,00.html

Shows house of ex-boyfriend's home of Shannon's mother and how police are still guarding it 'day and night' and how this flat has been given more significance than the other 200 homes police have searched.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1306546,00.html

video re day 5 and how simming pool visit signiicant among all the various footages of CCTV polive have studied - as she disappeared shortly after this. In addition mentions how police focussing in and around Dewsbury as police believe this is where they will discover what happened to her.

quote

The girl was last seen at the gates of West Moor Junior School in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, on Tuesday afternoon after returning from a swimming trip.

unquote

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1306410,00.html

Video shows her going in and coming out of swimming pool with a friend?

From article

Chief Superintendent Barry South said that police had not recovered any clothing or any items connected to Shannon.

"I need to stress at this moment in time that we have not recovered any clothing or any items that we believe are connected to Shannon," Mr South said.

Officers are still investigating a number of unconfirmed sightings, including one on Wednesday morning near her home which is described as "significant".

A police operation involving 250 officers and day-and-night searches by friends and relatives have failed to find her.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1306251,00.html

From Article:

Det Supt Andy Brennan said: "This is a nine-year-old girl who has never been missing previously.

"I would expect under normal circumstances we would have located her by now."

He said he believed she had a mobile phone but very little money and was not "streetwise in any way, shape or form".

Det Supt Brennan said police were following up a "significant" sighting of Shannon yesterday morning, the day after she failed to return home

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Video

Mum's Emotional Appeal For Daughter and how Shannon's older brother Tony 'has spent hours and hours in tears ' and how he misses her etc.

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Video

outside Shannon's school and attempted alleged abduction and girl was able to give police a description of the man, and reporter waiting to see if an e-fit is going to be made public , and crufication report which took place on Sunday night -a few hundred yards between Shannon's school and Shannon's home

police were called about 11.00 clock on Sunday night attempt to nail a man's hands to piece of wood......but still a guard on that home.

Police do not believed this is linked-but reporter says 'there is still a guard on that home ..and that is one of the routes Shannon would have taken on her way home regularly.' Brian I think they might be referring to Mrs Matthews ex-boyfriend's flat?

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http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1306933

7 days after ....Shows map Moorside Road and possible path she may have taken, ponds, sewers and drains and lealets at football match. and flat of ex sealed off shown from different angle - I think.

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http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1306619

Another video same re searching -mentions how extensive search has been going on at ex-boyfriend's flat by police still.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1306156,00.html

Video of Mother's Plea For Missing Schoolgirl-Shannon Matthews.

how Shannon does not like dark cold or anything else and appeals to her daughter to 'please come home we love you.'

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1306684,00.html

Video and article. Video shows interview with policeman and questions regarding how search and investigation work is being carried out etc.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1306911,00.html

Watch The Police Press Conference

Det. Supt. Andy Brennan from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, has made a statement expressing grave concerns for the safety of nine-year-old Shannon Matthews. He said he was not ruling out anything at this stage.

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http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1306530

Shows Shannon Matthews entering and leving Dewsbury Sports Centre Swimming Pool . I thought seeing her walking it might be easier for you to get a deeper connection telepathically etc with Shannon.


Hello Brian,

I have just recently noticed your website. And I have to say you really impressed me. I run a missing childrens site, and I wanted to ask you to do another reading on Reachelle Smith. We have just started sending flyers out around some areas that she may be. Any bit of help, would be greatly appreciated.

Michelle

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Thanks Michelle, will do do you have a link for the site?

Brian


I hope you be right with Shannon Matthews too and she is safe and fine, I think DD6477 release that case too.

Anne


3.6.2008

From last night and I hope it helps.

Brian

"1627 CM with friend high school, large round ears PS2 video game - will be located, brown hair, K, hazel eyes, grey sweat suit"

This could be a person thank knows Shannon's, but I not sure what his name is nor how he relates to her disappearance.
 


3.7.2008

Hi Brian,

Your latest Drawing  for Shannon Matthews I beleive shows her mothers boyfriend.

You have also written CM. His name is Criag Meehan.

Please see the attached photo

( I realise you will probably be inudated with this so apologies if Im late in sending)

Do you have any feeling about him??

VB

Tracy

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Hi Tracy, this is the first email I have received about this...not sure, his hair looks too short.

Would have to find out more details on him first.

Brian


I noticed Brian that the initial you gave was CM(Craig Meehan) is the mothers partner.
but somehow don`t think that he fits the discription as his hair is too short and his ears are to small.
Maybe he does know something about it after all!? It seems too much of a coincidence for the initial to be the same.
 
sylvia

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Hi Sylvia, the initials may match, but I agree...Craig has short hair, initials could be someone else, or not initials at all.

Brian


3.10.2008

Hi.

I was looking at your drawing and the pic of Shannons stepfather, and you say his hair is too short. Well, here is a pic where his hair is a bit longer.
And his ears do look big and round too...
Sorry, the link was missing in my last email.
 
I´ll try again:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=528840&in_page_id=1770

I put a pic in this email as well.
 
Alice.

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Hi Alice, I do see what you're talking about...it is possible that he got a haircut since Shannon went missing?  Where was Craig the day she went missing?  Was she abused physically or sexually by Craig and was going to tell the police about it?

I ask these questions because of of a dream last night, it's now posted in the case file.  If Craig has an alibi for the time period she went missing, then I would say the man in the DD is not him.

Brian

"west high -- stop -- she was going to tell on him - she told her friend - not police -- he did not know - go to high school"

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Missing Shannon pleaded to uncle the night before she disappeared: 'Please let me stay'

Last updated at 22:54pm on 9th March 2008

The uncle of missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews said she visited him 24 hours before she disappeared and tearfully begged to stay the night, it was reported today.

Martin Matthews claimed the nine-year-old said she was too frightened to go home and pleaded with him: "Please can I stay here tonight - I can't go home because I'm in trouble."

She said she was told off by her stepfather Craig Meehan for swearing during a row.

Mr Matthews - who is Shannon's mother Karen's brother -said: "She sobbed all the way home because she was frightened.

"But I told her to go back. I regret it now. The next day she vanished."

He has been joined by the girl's grandparents in breaking their silence to claim Karen's children were physically abused by fishmonger Mr Meehan - allegations Craig strongly denies.

Mr Matthews, 42, told the Sunday Mirror: "She's been around here on many occasions saying the same thing: crying, saying she doesn't want to go home, saying 'I hate living there'.

"She's showed me bruises on her arms and said Craig had lashed out at her. He does lash out."

There have been no confirmed sightings of the schoolgirl since she left Westmoor Junior School in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, at 3.10pm on February 19, following a school swimming trip.

Mr Matthews went on: "She came here at tea time the day before. She is good friends with my kids, Tyler and Levi and often comes here to play.

"But this time it was different. She was upset and kept asking to stay the night. For some reason she didn't want to go home."

He told how sobbing Shannon pleaded: "Please let me stay here. I don't want to go home. I'm in trouble."

He continued: "She said she had an argument with Craig and swore at him. As a result she was grounded.

"I told her she really shouldn't stay and she should go home, especially if she was grounded and asked Tyler, my 10-year-old daughter, to walk her home.

"When Tyler got back she said Shannon had cried all the way.

"My two kids saw Shannon the next morning.

"They told me she said she'd had an argument with her mum and that Karen had screamed at her to get out of the house and not to come back.

"They have been questioned by the police and have told them everything."

Detectives, who have launched a massive hunt, fear she was abducted as she tried to make her way to her dad Leon Rose's home 10 miles away after telling pals she wanted to "run away".

Mother-of-seven Ms Matthews, 32, and Mr Meehan, 22, have made desperate television appeals for her to come home.

But Ms Matthew's parents June and Gordon Matthews claim Shannon shared an unhappy home life with her brothers and sisters.

They say they tried to persuade Karen to leave Craig in the weeks leading up to Shannon's disappearance amid a string of family bust-ups.

Mrs Matthews, 64 - who raised Shannon for the first few months from birth - said: "We don't believe Craig is any good for Karen and the kids and we want to put that on record.

"We have never seen him beat Shannon with our own eyes, but the kids have said it's happened.

"We're not saying this lightly, we know how serious these allegations are, but Karen needs to tell him to leave.

"We're doing this for her sake and the children's sake."

She said things had not been right ever since Karen had got together with Craig four years ago.

She added: "Karen was a great mum before she took Craig in. Those kids were loved and cared for. Since he arrived they've had a terrible life."

Mr Meehan last night said of the allegations: " I've been with Karen for four years now. I have never hit her or any of the children.

"We play about, as you do, but me and Karen have a brilliant relationship. I was working on the Monday night before she went missing so I don't know if she came home upset. "I love those kids. I know they're not mine but I treat them like they are.

"June is lying because she doesn't like me. She wants to tell Karen what she can and can't do.

"There is only me who works. I bring money into the home. I feed them. They get everything. My money goes on Karen, bills and the kids.

"No one in Shannon's family likes me. I don't know why. I don't care about these accusations.

"All I want is Shannon back. No one can accuse me. I know what's true and Karen knows what's true."


3.11.2008

Hi Brian.

Yes, he got a haircut after Shannon went missing. In both pictures he is wearing the same t-shirt with picture of Shannon...and the lenght of his hair is different.
 
Alice

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Thanks Alice.

Brian


3.13.2008

Hi Brian 

I have just noticed on your website for missing Shannon Matthews.

 The school you currently are showing is not the correct one.  That is the High School, Shannon was at Westmoor Junior School, Church Lane, Dewsbury WF13 4EW.

 Picture below, also attached for clarity. 

 The latest information is below.  Also URL's, in case links don't work.

 A new website for Shannon Shannon Matthews Appeal

 

Latest media information

 Shannon Matthews 'abducted to hurt mother'


By Richard Savill
 

Last Updated: 12:25pm GMT 12/03/2008


 

 Thank you very much Brian.

 Much appreciated 

EJ

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Thank You EJ, and will post this correction ASAP.

Brian


3.13.2008

Hi Brian

SEARCH FOR SHANNON: 'All I want is my best friend back home safe'

Brian see this CCTV footage of Shannon her friend Megan is 'at the side of her,'as her friend's father says below: 

Mr Aldridge, of Beckett Crescent, said: "Every day has been hard for Megan. She finds it hard to make friends, but she had two. One of them has gone to Australia and now Shannon has disappeared. It is unbelievable.
"Since it happened Megan has been having trouble sleeping and she is finding it hard at school. We are all giving her all the support we can."
The dad-of-two said he had been left chilled by some of the CCTV images he has seen of Shannon's last known movements

Those pictures of Shannon walking into Dewsbury Sports Centre, that is Megan at the side of her," he said. "They are that close, they were nearly always together.
"You can't help wonder what has happened to Shannon but to be honest I am trying

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Thank you...Brian


6.14.2008

Hi Brian,

Great news, the missing school girl has been found alive in a 39 year old mans flat hidden under the bed.

 Warm wishes

G. X

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Thanks, wonderful news and I'm glad she was found safe.

Brian

Man arrested as missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is found alive under bed

Last updated at 16:22pm on 14.03.08

A man has been arrested after missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was found alive.

Police search officers discovered Shannon hidden in the base of a divan bed in a flat in Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr – about a mile from her home in Dewsbury – after breaking down the door of the property.

Police stormed the West Yorkshire address at 12.30pm and a 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of abduction at the address.

He is currently in custody at a West Yorkshire Police Station.

A local resident has told the Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper he saw Shannon being taken away shortly before 2pm this afternoon:

"I have just seen Shannon being taken out of a house in Batley Carr. She is safe and well."

Shannon's aunt Amanda Hyett said the schoolgirl's mother Karen Matthews had been driven away by police from the family home shortly before 2pm.

Police smashed their way into a flat in Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr and emerged carrying Shannon, neighbours said.

The young girl looked "quite calm" and officers confirmed that she was OK.

 

A local resident, who did not want to give her name, said: "One of my neighbours heard banging.

"When he went outside, police were breaking the door down - the man wouldn't come out so they broke in. Apparently they found her in bed. He said she was quite calm. Police carried her out.

"My neighbour asked, 'is it Shannon?" and the policeman just said, 'yes' and said she was OK."

The neighbour said rumours in the street suggested that the man who occupied the flat where Shannon was found lived alone and had children who had been taken into care.

She added: "We haven't seen him for two or three years. But apparently he's come back."

Christopher Heaps, who lives at number 4, said he had heard banging.

"About five minutes after that a policeman came out with a girl under his arms," he told Sky News.

"I just said to the policeman 'Is that Shannon?' and he said 'Yeah, this is Shannon'.

"I was very shocked... I couldn't believe it was on my own doorstep."

He added that a woman in the downstairs flat raised the alarm.

"She said that she heard a child's footsteps above and she knew that he hadn't got any children, I think she called the police and they took it from there then."

A local resident, who would not be named, said he saw the man and Shannon coming out of the house. "They dragged him out," he said. "I was hurling abuse at him. She was coming out at the same time."

Children returning from school to houses in Shannon's road were crying and hugging each other.

Callie Brown, eight, who is in Shannon's class at school, said: "We all had to go into the hall for an assembly. I was crying my eyes out.

"I'm going to give these 22 letters to her from her friends. I have missed her loads."

Earlier this week mother-of-seven Mrs Matthews, 32, said she believed someone she knows had snatched her daughter to hurt her.

But Mrs Matthews said she did not know who could have taken the shy youngster.

Mrs Matthews said: "She got abducted. That's all I can say."

Asked if she thought it was someone she knew who took her, she said: "It seems that way because there's no trace of her at all. There's no trace of her swimming costume, her towel or anything like that that she's taken with her."

And asked why someone close to her would do it, Mrs Matthews replied: "Just to hurt me, really."

Shannon's incredible reappearance comes after biggest manhunt in the country since the Yorkshire Ripper, some 30 years ago.

During the course of the investigation into her disappearance, police with dogs searched about 2,000 homes and commercial premises in the area, as well as parks, countryside, gardens and common land.

Ms Hyett, Shannon's next door neighbour as well as aunt, said: "We've all heard the news. It is great news. I've just heard the news like everyone else. I'm just trying to check if it's right.

"Karen (Shannon's mother) is not in. She's with the police."

Earlier this week, senior police had reiterated their "grave concern" over Shannon's fate.

This is the first confirmed sightings of the schoolgirl since she left Westmoor Junior School in Dewsbury on February 19 at 3.10pm, following a school swimming trip.

Shannon had written on her bedroom wall that she wanted to go and live with her father but police said the message was just part of an array of scribbles that the youngster had daubed on her wall.

Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann, said they were "delighted" that Shannon had been found alive and said the news gave them hope.

Their spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, said: "Kate and Gerry are aware that she has been found alive. They feel that is excellent news, they are delighted that she is alive.

"They will not comment more until they know the full circumstances. Suffice to say that they will keep on looking until they have a happy resolution in Madeleine's case.

"It proves that children can go missing for whatever reason and still be found alive.

"Until Kate and Gerry know what has happened to Madeleine, there will always be hope for them that she too will be found alive.

"They will keep on looking as long as there is hope."

Conservative leader David Cameron said he was "delighted" to hear that Shannon had been found alive.

Speaking to reporters at his party's spring forum in Gateshead, Mr Cameron said: "I just feel huge relief on behalf of Shannon and her family.

"It is wonderful news that she's been found alive and, I hope, well.

"So often in these cases, you wait and you wait and then you hear tragic and awful news. All of us were thinking that was maybe what might happen and it is great that she is alive."


Shannon found alive and well!!
Yipee!!!!!!!
 
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/38063
 
Brian exactly as you said a red brick flat you are wondeful
 
sylvia

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Hi Sylvia, I'm glad she's safe...I need more details in order to see if my DD's were correct or not...however it really does not matter...she's safe :)

Brian


Just heard it on sky news Shannon Matthew has been found.:) 

Just one mile from home.

Carolyn

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Hi, just heard...wonderful news.

Brian


Missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been found alive 24 days after she disappeared.

She was found around a mile away at the home of a man who is part of her extended family, say Sky sources.

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Thanks,

Brian


The House she was found in looks like your dd Awesome Brian!!! Take care Michelle

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Thanks, do you know if this house is on my map?

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Hi Sorry not to good at reading maps but have searched google earth and to me seems you were spot on, (red marker)

she was found at Bately Carr, Dewsbury, perhaps you can read map better than I Can, seems your prediction is correct 

also Breaking news on Sky news Police Shannon Matthews made subject of Emergency police protection order.

police have not allowed mother to take her home.

will keep you updated.

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Hi, thanks I think I have the correct location marked now.

Brian


 Please look at this photo of Shannon's stepdad, His Hair is longer than the picture You were sent, he has obviously had a hair cut.   Re. your latest DD.

Also, Please have a look at the news report regarding Her Stepdad attached.

Thanks

Janet

x

P.S  Brian, You are not Posting on Madeleine at the Moment, Do You know they have Started Searching the River Again Today ?  .. Terrible news about Poor Little MariLuz  R.I.P  Sweet Angel ..

You have Not seen something Awfull have  you ?

Hope You & Your family are  well ...


Hi Brian 

You are right, once again. Shannon has been found alive. Great news.

 Isla - Scotland

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Hi Isla, I'm happy she was found safe, wish it was much sooner.

I think it's too early to call this one correct or not.

Brian

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Shannon Matthews Is Found

Missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been found alive in the Dewsbury area of West Yorkshire 24 days after she disappeared.

Police smashed their way into a flat in Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr and emerged carrying Shannon, neighbours said.

Shannon Matthews

The young girl looked "quite calm" and officers confirmed she was OK.

A local resident, who did not want to give her name, said: "One of my neighbours heard banging.

"When he went outside, police were breaking the door down - the man wouldn't come out so they broke in. Apparently they found her in bed."

The neighbour believed the man who occupied the flat where Shannon was found lived alone and had children who had been taken into care.

She added: "We haven't seen him for two or three years. But apparently he's come back."

The woman who lives downstairs from him tipped off police after hearing footsteps, she said.

Earlier reports claimed the little girl was found hiding under a bed in a her grandparents' home.

Police had been searching for the nine-year-old for over three weeks.

The youngster has now been taken to a police station where she will be reunited with her mother.

Sky's north of England correspondent Gerard Tubb said: "I only know that she is alive but I wasn't given any impression that she was harmed.

"They've got her, they're very excited."

Shannon failed to return home from school after a swimming trip on February 19.

Mother Karen Matthews

The schoolgirl's aunt Amanda Hyett said Shannon's mother Karen Matthews had been driven away by police from the family home shortly before 2pm.

Former Scotland Yard detective, Mike Hames, told Sky police "always thought she was being kept away from home by someone that knows her".

"It is quite rare that you would find a child alive after all this time," he added.

Earlier this week, Ms Matthews, 32, a mother-of-seven from Dewsbury, West Yorks, said: "She got abducted. That's all I can say."

Asked if someone she knew was responsible, she said: "It seems that way because there's no trace of her at all.

"There's no trace of her swimming costume, her towel or anything like that that she's taken with her."

Shannon had been dressed in a black jumper with a school logo, a white cotton T-shirt, black trousers and a waist-length black coat with fur round the hood.

One national newspaper offered a  £50,000 reward for information about her disappearance.

Police searched more than 200 homes and received over 300 calls from the public in their extensive investigation.

Friends and neighbours also distributed leaflets appealing for information about Shannon's whereabouts across West Yorkshire. 


Hi Brian,
 
Good news - it looks like Shannon Matthews has been found alive. I hope we get the same result with Madeleine.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm
 
Regards,
C

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Hi C, I hope so too...and as far as I know, Madeleine is still in the same location.

Brian


Hello Brian,

 Just had to send you this - so glad you were right about her being alive...

Best wishes, 

Lucy-Jane in France

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Thanks Lucy...I'm very happy she is safe.

Brian 


Hi Brian 

Finally, some good news, although unconfirmed, but looking more and more is is true.

 Here are some links, she was approximately 4 miles from home in Batley.

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Looks like this report is confirmed...great news!

Brian 

EJ 

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Hot+Topics/Shannon+Matthews+-+Missing 

Shannon: Schoolgirl found

Shannon has been missing since February 19

MISSING Dewsbury schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is belived to have been been found alive in West Yorkshire.

The nine-year-old disappeared three weeks ago after a school swimming lesson.

No details have emerged as yet as to the circumstances of today's events.

Hundreds of police and residents have been involved in the search for the schoolgirl in what became West Yorkshire Police's largest investigation since the Ripper Inquiry of the 1970s.

Officers and specialist teams from across the north of England have been involved.

Leading detectives had said they were gravely concerned for the youngster's safety because there had been no sightings of her since the afternoon she went missing.

Among the homes searched by officers with specialist dogs trained to identify blood and human remains were those of sex offenders living in the Dewsbury area.

As part of the investigation, a complete fingerprint and DNA profile of the nine-year-old had been compiled, using samples taken from her home. This was to have helped pinpoint detectives to where she had been, whether voluntarily or against her will.


The full article contains 182 words and appears in n/a newspaper.

Last Updated: 14 March 2008 2:25 PM



Brian,

Good news!!! Shannon was found alive and well.

Thank you for a great job you're doing.
I am looking forward to hearing good mews about Maddeleine McCann. I hope she will be found alive soon.

Marina

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Hi, me too...wonderful news for Shannon...and I hope UK authorities do get a chance to search for Madeleine in PDL.


UPDATE:  If the DD's are correct, Shannon might have something very important she needs to talk about...I would be caution to taking her home to her family right away.

I think she should get a chance to talk to professionals that deal with cases like hers.

Brian


Short note, u might already have,  shannon matthews has been found alive, in a flat one mile from her house hidden in a canopy bed.

  Case 347 madeleine Mccann

Also let you know in spanish news they are saying they have found a white bag with bones in it, in the lake they were searching

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Hi, thanks will post both news reports.

Brian


Your dream was right, Shannon M is found near of her home.
Building is brickhouse with many apartments

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=533944&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Anne

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Hi Anne, great news...and I'm glad she is safe.

Brian


Hi Brian,  

Just a quick email, to let you know, if you didn't know already that Shannon Matthews has been found safe and well this afternoon. Link to sky news attached.

 No doubt many of your regulars will have already have notified you.  But when we have so much bad news going on around the world it is good to share some good news for a change.  There is hope for all missing persons around the world after all.

 Take Care.  

Sharon, UK.

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Hi Sharon, thanks got about 400 emails so far, but with news like this...I welcome an overloaded mailbox :)

Brian


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Hi, thanks...can you check this, as it looks like to me she was found in my map.

Brian


Hi Brian 

Fantastic Fabulous News -  I cannot type for joy!  You were right - check out your DD with house and she was near and with someone she knew etc.

 Shannon Matthews has been found read below from Sky News:

 Regards Alex

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Hi Alex, thanks and I'm glad she's safe.

Brian


Hi Brian, 

FANTASTIC NEWS!

Breaking news on SKY - Shannon Matthews has been found alive and well in a house only a mile away from her home 24 days after she went missing! A 39 year old man has been arrested at the property. Apparently police doing routine searches in the area knocked at the door but got no reply, when they talked to neighbours they said that nobody had come out of the house so they must be still inside. The police then decided to break down the door and upon doing so and searching the house they found Shannon and the 39 year old man hidden in drawers beneath a divan bed.  Shannon is being cared for by West Yorkshire police and has not yet been re-united with her mum. Apparently the man arrested is related in some way to Craig Meehan, the stepfather. 

Lets hope this outcome becomes the same for the McCanns, and Madeleine is found well and SOON!

Thank you for your very special gifts, God Bless. 


3,448 feet off!!!  youre losing your touch :)

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Hi, if it was possible to see 'brick homes' from this map maybe I could have done better...anyway, she is found and that's all that matters.

Brian



Hi Brian,

great news.

Will be interesting to see if details of this guy matches your DD. No details of him released as yet.

regards

DD

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1309334,00.html

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Hi, me too...this news in not on US tv, I checked CNN and FOX and nothing...went to Sky News and its front page :)

Brian


 Hiya Brian,

    This is the latest story about Shannon, am so pleased that she has been found. You had a number 6 in one of the DD's about Shannon, and she was found at number 26. Wish all stories of missing kids, could have such an outcome as this.... Best wishes to you and the familly, keep up the great work

Cy uk 

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Thanks, and will do.

Brian

March 15, 2008

Shannon Matthews found hiding under bed with her stepfather’s uncle

After disappearing 24 days ago, Shannon Matthews was found in the base of a bed in the home of Paul Drake

Shannon Matthews, whose disappearance sparked one of the biggest police searches in recent years

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/xxxImage :1 of 5http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/xxx

When officers arrived at No 26 Lidgate Gardens shortly before midday yesterday, it was initially just another door-knock in their painstaking search for Shannon Matthews.

The resident — the uncle of Shannon’s stepfather, and part of the door-to-door trawl of anyone who might be known to the girl — appeared not to be at home.

They tried a downstairs flat, where a conversation with a neighbour provided the sudden breakthrough for which the Matthews family, their friends and the police force had been praying for three weeks.

Though Paul Drake, the resident, lived alone in the property in Batley Carr, the sound of a child’s footsteps had been heard lately.

Officers were told that Mr Drake — also known as Mick Donovan — never left the premises without his car, about which he was obsessive. They were led to believe that Mr Drake was still in the flat because his prized silver Peugot was parked in the street outside.

The two police officers decided they were dealing with more than a routine visit. Keeping an observation on the property, the officers called for an emergency back-up team. A battering ram was used to break down the door and officers burst into the house.

They immediately searched from room to room, and after hearing noises, uncovered Shannon, hidden within the base of a double divan bed. Alongside Shannon, in the other half of the cavity, was Mr Drake. The 24-day search was over.

Neighbours described how Shannon appeared calm as she was carried from the scene, with no apparent sign of injury. Then Paul Drake emerged, dragged out in handcuffs to awaiting back-up officers and a volley of pent-up anger from local residents.

As word got out into the community, Karen Matthews, Shannon’s mother, was told of her daughter’s safe recovery by a neighbour, Peter Brown, a short time after.

“She just froze. She was in shock. Then her reaction was crying,” said Mr Brown. “After that, she had a phone call from the police liaison officer. They came to pick her up. Karen and Craig [Shannon's stepfather] both left the house together. We are going to have a party tonight.”

Shannon disappeared 24 days ago after returning to Westmoor Primary School in Dewsbury from a swimming trip. It led to one of the largest investigations mounted by the West Yorkshire force, involving up to 300 detectives, more than a tenth of the force’s strength.

Amanda Hyett, Shannon’s aunt, sobbed as she said: “I am so pleased she has been found. We just need her home now. I just want to say thank you to everyone that helped.”

Ms Hyett was with Shannon’s mother and stepfather when the news came through that the girl had been found safe and well. “We were all howling on the stairs with complete joy,” she said.

It is understood that Mr Drake — said to be the brother of Craig Meehan’s mother, Alice Meehan — has two daughters aged 10 and 12 who were taken into care some years ago. Alice Meehan, 49, last night revealed that he was arrested in 2004 when he took his oldest daughter from school. She said Mr Drake lost his own children three years ago after a split from his wife.

“I can’t believe he had Shannon, my own brother, it feels like he has brought shame on our family. I’m sure there’s no way he would have hurt her. He was missing his kids.”

She said Mr Drake had custody of his children but was eventually deemed unfit and no longer saw them: “This killed him.”

As news spread of the nine-year-old’s safe return, people emerged on to the streets of Dewsbury and Batley to celebrate, with lager and wine.

Mandy Dixon, 37, described how police descended on Lidgate Gardens. Officers battered their way through the blue door opening on to stairs up to the maisonette flat. A plainclothes officer brought Shannon out first.

She said: “A neighbour shouted out, ‘Is that Shannon?’ and they said, ‘Yes, it is’. I could not see Shannon’s face, she was covered up. She was clinging to the officer for dear life.”

Another neighbour, David Hughes, 46, a former soldier, whose flat overlooks the suspect’s home, said: “They busted in the door at about 1.30pm and later they dragged him out. He was cuffed to two police officers. They ordered him to obey their commands but he refused, curling his legs underneath him as if he did not want to go. He was crying and whingeing.

“Shannon came out with two police officers. She looked OK. I would say quite calm. She was dressed in a dark blue jacket and trousers.

“I could see it was Shannon. This episode has left us all so incredibly happy that she is going home alive and well.”

Residents on the estate expressed astonishment that they could have been living so close to the missing girl for so long. One said: “It is so shocking that she could have been such a short distance away for the last three weeks without us knowing. There has been no sight or sound of this little girl.”

People in the estate, which is mixed between Asian and white working class, spoke of a loner who hardly ever emerged from the flat.

Ashraf Dadhiwak, a newsagent, 51, said: “I have not seen him for a year. He is a loner who used to come into the shop with his two daughters. He did not look as if he was all there, if you know what I mean.He looked ill to me, certainly not healthy, and had the appearance of someone frightened of something.”

A resident, who did not want to be named, said the daughters were taken into carewhen his wife was unwell and he couldn’t look after them. “I thought he had left the area but maybe he came back recently. A neighbour came to tell me there were police in the street and said the woman in the flat downstairs had called the police. Apparently she heard a child’s footsteps and knew he did not have any children so she was suspicious.”

Last night a large area of the estate surrounded by a grassy knoll was cordoned off by scenes-of-crime tape.

A yellow telephone directory lay unrecovered on the porch and shabby curtains in the upstairs windows had a pattern with the words “biker boy”.

Inside, forensic science experts began their painstaking work which will continue this morning.

A statement from West Yorkshire Police said: “As part of ongoing investigations, detectives and specialist search officers attended a house at Lidgate Gardens, Batley Carr, Dewsbury, at 12.30pm this afternoon.

“During a search of the house, officers located Shannon Matthews who was found concealed in the base of a divan bed. A 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of abduction at the address and is currently in custody at a West Yorkshire police station. Shannon is currently in the care of West Yorkshire Police.”

Missing for 24 days

February 19 Last sighting of Shannon at about 3.10pm leaving Westmoor Junior School in Dewsbury. Police begin a search of the area

February 21 Police confirm Shannon’s friends said she talked of running away from home

February 22 Police release CCTV footage of Shannon leaving Dewsbury Sports Centre

February 23 Police admit that they are “gravely concerned” about finding Shannon despite receiving more than 300 calls from the public and searching more than 200 homes

February 25 Police call in 50 officers to search bins around Shannon’s home. Specialist divers have searched a local pond, sewers and drains

February 29 Shannon’s mother makes plea for her return for Mother’s Day

March 5 Police release a recording of Karen Matthews’ 999 call on February 19

March 11 More than half of the UK’s specialist search dogs are involved in the hunt

March 14 Shannon found alive in Batley Carr, 24 days after she went missing. A man aged 39 is arrested in relation to her disappearance

Sources Times database and Home Office


Hi there Brian

Great news just to let everyone know Shannon Matthews has been found alive.

Here is the link:

 All my love Jennifer *** xx

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Hi Jennifer, wonderful news :)

Brian


Hi Brian 

There has just been a statement issued by the West Yorkshire Police.

 I have highlighted the relevant part in the report below.

 EJ

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Thanks for the information, and I think this is a very good idea.

Brian

 

 

Hi Brian,

Please check out A and B below after you have read my intro: 

I thought I would share with you an anecdote I was told on sharing the news of Shannon Matthews being found alive . In the public house they were all waiting around excitedly for the Cheltenham Gold Cup Race to begin when there was a NEWSFLASH announcing the Great Race would be delayed as they had BREAKING NEWS to impart. The News of Shannon being found alive SENT THE PUB IN AN UPROAR - everyone was EUPHORIC! -no moans about  the long-awaited Race being delayed  !      And this is hours and many miles away from where Shannon lives. Can you imagine what it must be like in her area? I thought I would share this atmosphere with you and I hope you have a bottle out and are celebrating. YOU DESERVE IT!!! It is not often we get such wonderful news. You must be EUPHORIC. YOU ARE FANTASTIC AND A FABULOUS HUMAN BEING AND THIS SHOULD SEND ANY DOUBTS AS TO WHAT YOU ARE DOING- AWAY INTO THE DARk RECESSES AND CORNERS WHERE THEY BELONG. BRIAN YOU ARE BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!

A

1. You said she might be with an uncle- and this man is her great step-uncle.

2.You also drew a red-brick house

3. And said something about her possibly being in an apartment/flat if I recall correctly?

4. You said she would be found

As yet we do not know why she was with this man. It could be that she asked him to hide her as she was allegedly scared to go home. In addition she allegedly had bruises on her arm and was sent home by her uncle? 

 Therefore it is not clear yet whether this man (her great step-uncle was acting as a FRIEND OR FOE?   If he is found to have been acting as a friend then your DD concerning the FRIEND part will also be true.

I think they said the house number was 26- I think you had a 6 in one of your DDs?

 She was also found I think approximately 1 mile away from her home. You also mention in DD something re it being near her home.

What are your feelings at present on this matter Brian?

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B

Please find below some links to the latest on Shannon Matthews:

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Revealed: The 'scruffy misfit' who lost his own two children

See Picture of Paul Drake also known as Mic Donovan

(He is the brother of Shannon's stepfather's mother = Stepfather's Uncle and great Uncle to Shannon. And this is a very informative piece - Please read it Brian. I have not copied the pictures as I know it slows up your site)

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PIC OF BED with drawers underneath showing where Shannon and Drake were hidden when police broke in

Alive: Shannon Matthews was found in a bed drawer while Paul Drake, the uncle of her stepfather Craig Meehan, has been arrested in connection with her disappearance 

Curled up in the other was 39-year-old Paul Drake, the uncle of Shannon's stepfather Craig.  

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INTRIGUING ???????

I know you may think the tabloids are not as brilliant as others but I find if I check most of them some snippets of information can sometimes be useful.

There is also a map where Shannon was found:

Donovan is said to be the brother of Craig Meehan’s mother Alice Meehan.

At one stage Craig lived at the family home in School Lane, Dewsbury but left to live with Shannon’s mother.

His father Brian Meehan also lived at the flat but neighbours said he died at Christmas time.

Today police were guarding the Meehan’s home and neighbours said that Mrs Meehan and a man who was now living there left about a week ago.

"She lived there for about five years and after her husband died, another man moved in," said one woman.

"Just a few days ago, they just left without telling anyone what was happening or where they were going."

He said the police had been at the flat for two days and a forensic team had been inside for several hours.

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Read this too Brian please:

Another informative piece with Mrs Matthews claiming ' the day Shannon went missing Karen turned u at their house with a black eye (Karen = I suppose they mean Shannon's mother? Also other alleged behaviour of the stepfather etc......

Also has pictures of Shannon's father Leon Rose, her mother Karen and Craig Meechan her stepfather together.

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THE TIMES ON LINE REPORT :

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SHANNON PLACED UNDER PROTECTION ORDER:

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IN THIS ARTICLE 1 HOUR AGO THEY ARE SAYING ' It is understood that Shannon has yet to be reunited with her mother......'

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwSFk5eVfAktcPkqIznrOU_wH6og

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ANOTHER TIMESONLINE ARTICLE - Re- traumatic event and effects on victim and her family etc.

It’s over. Now for the demons

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3556550.ece

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Melanie Gill, a child forensic psychologist, said children frequently downplay their experience in the hope that things get "back to normal".

Keenly sensitive to their own family’s anxiety, they also often seek to protect their parents from what they have been through. unquote

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CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!!

and best wishes to you and your wonderful family. I thank you for what you do in our name.

Alex

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Thank you for doing what you do too :)  I have to help Samuel with something right now, and I'm not able to read all this right now...but I will.

Take Care,

Brian


3.16.2007

Hi brian this looks like the box shape you have drawn on the brick house below the windows. 

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/9pm-update-with-video-Shannon.3880741.jp

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Police officer outside the house Shannon was found  

DD CASE 610:

There are several windows  Brian  and You seem to have drawn the area of the white porch and windows above are three and she was found upstairs

and the entrance to the flat (maisonnette) was through the white boxed porch.   There is also some sort of box- porch to the side of the building.

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in the long number on your DD- unless this is a licence no of this uncle or someone else's car?DD CASE 610:

There are several windows  Brian  and You seem to have drawn the area of the white porch and windows above are three and she was found upstairs

and the entrance to the flat (maisonnette) was through the white boxed porch.   There is also some sort of box- porch to the side of the building.

If only the family had checked out your site ( I am presuming they have not or did and missed these vital clues) Shannon would have been found sooner.  You said she was near her home, in a brick building probably a flat etc, someone with the name beginning with J and also with a friend ( even if this uncle turns out to be a paedophile? Shannon may have gone with him believing he was her friend?)  You gave the no 6 and this address is no 26 however you also have a 2 and 6 together backwards

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Brian I thought I would include the pic below as I must have been exhausted or something, as when I first viewed this picture I thought it was the specialist police 'KICKING in the door,' and I thought to myself it was rather a 'puny' (weak) effort .  HA!  HA!  I truly must have needed some sleep.  Well I hope this had made you laugh at me ,  as  every time I view it I want to laugh.  I would not however truly detract from the wonderful effort these guys have made.  I WISH THEY HAD CONTROL OF THE MADELEINE MCCANN CASE - AND PERHAPS WE WOULD SEE SOME TRULY MAGNIFICANT RESULTS LIKE THESE.  YES IT TOOK THEM 24 DAYS = BUT WOW!  WHAT A WONDERFUL RESULT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Scenes of Crime Officers examine the house where Shannon Matthews was found alive in Batley Carr, West Yorkshire March 14, 2008.

REUTERS/Phil Noble

http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKL1475049620080314

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http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/SHANNON-SAFE-Where-she-was.3880696.jp

There are buildings here with 3 windows above like your DD- See the 'View Gallery' section:

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http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/EditorialGallery.aspx?ArticleID=3880696&SectionID=39

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Dewsbury Moor residents celebrated

Shannon's discovery

Same pic on another page=

children hurl missing girl leaflets in the air

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm

 

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You're safe.. where is he?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article921713.ece

Where it took place ... Shannon's house on Moorside Road, that she never made it home to; her school, Westmoor Junior, where she got off the school bus; the swimming pool that Shannon disappeared from while walking home; the weirdo's home from where she was recovered after cops smashed through the door and the divan bed compartments for hiding Shannon and her alleged abductor

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Thanks for taking the time to do this...it seems the RV was correct.

Brian

 


My count is 64 people one dog and one cat correct!! AMAZING WORK!!!

KEEP IT UP!!!

http://www.briansprediction.com/found/

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Hi, thanks for keeping track and I'll try my best....I just wish all these cases would have a happy ending.

Brian


Most Shannon Matthews ‘tip-offs’ were waste of time, officers reply to critics

Andrew Norfolk

Police hit back last night at criticism that detectives missed vital clues that should have led them more quickly to the house where Shannon Matthews was found.

Since the nine-year-old was discovered on Friday several residents have come forward to claim that they provided information that West Yorkshire Police allegedly failed to act upon. A source close to the investigation has told The Times that some of the so-called tip-offs were baseless, while others contained inadequate information. Suggestions that Mick Donovan, the man being held on suspicion of Shannon’s abduction, should in any case have been a higher priority for investigation are also dismissed by force insiders.

Details have emerged of the scale and complexity of the inquiry that was launched after the girl was reported missing on February 19. In addition to the intensive search that was carried out by hundreds of uniformed officers in Dewsbury Moor and surrounding areas, from day one a team of 60 detectives began to amass a list of potential suspects in the locality.

Separate teams, each split into smaller units, focused on members of Shannon’s extended family and known or suspected sex offenders living in or near Dewsbury. Where the same name appeared on both lists, as happened in several cases, those individuals were inevitably treated as the highest priority for intense scrutiny.

Almost 1,400 registered sex offenders live within a 20-mile radius of Shannon’s home. To that list was added the names of historic sex offenders whose convictions predated the creation of the register in 1997, plus those who had been arrested on suspicion of sex offences but not convicted.

Drawing up a list of the many hundred members of the missing girl’s extended family proved such a complex task that it had not even been completed before the child was found.

Shannon’s mother, Karen Matthews, has seven children by five different fathers, plus a number of former partners. Added to her relatives, plus her boyfriends’ and children’s fathers’ close relatives, were the relatives of Shannon’s natural father, Leon Rose, and her stepfather, Craig Meehan, 22.

The Times understands that several people who formed part of Shannon’s extended family had criminal convictions for a wide variety of offences, some of them – but not Mr Donovan – for sex crimes involving children.

Police also wanted to search each of the 600 homes along the route that Shannon would normally have taken between Westmoor Junior School, where she was last seen, and her red-brick council home. A further 2,800 addresses lie within a half-mile radius of the child’s home.

Against that background police were also dealing with more than 2,000 tip-offs from members of the public. Some were crank calls, some of malicious intent and some were genuine, but often far too vague.

Police sources have dismissed at least one of the claimed tip-offs about Mr Donovan and his Lidgate Gardens flat as a fabrication. Another, in which Melvyn Glew, a neighbour, telephoned the charity Missing People, which passed on his information to the police, is said to have been too vague to justify immediate attention. Police sources told The Times that the only details they logged were that there was “a unnamed weirdo” at number 24 or 26 Lidgate Gardens and that the police ought to check him out.

An earlier tip, passing on suspicions about Mr Donovan’s overfamiliar behaviour with Shannon at a family funeral six weeks before her disappearance, is said to have joined a long list of allegations passed to the police about various relatives of the child.

The Times understands that Mr Donovan featured on the list of Shannon’s extended family tree and was due to be visited at some stage of the inquiry. He suddenly moved up the list because of information that came into police hands on Friday morning in the course of detectives’ dealings with another member of Shannon’s extended family. There had been no tip-off, police have emphasised, from anyone claiming to have heard the sound of a child’s footsteps in Mr Donovan’s flat.

A source told The Times: “You’ve got to remember that we started this inquiry with nothing. Shannon had vanished without trace. No one had seen anything. We’re very pleased with the way this investigation has been conducted. We put a system in place and there was a lot of slow, methodical work, but it has led to Shannon being recovered safe and well.”

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I think the police did an excellent job, and do not deserve treatment like this.

I also think that Shannon should decide where she wants to live, and it may take time for her to tell police what she knows...if she even does...I think this is a private matter, and should be kept that way.

If Shannon is forced to go back home, I believe she could go missing again.    I also think that others arrests will be made in this case, and would not prejudge anyone at this time.

Brian


3.17.2008

Hi Brian,

They have launched a website for Shannon Matthews :

Please look and analyse this site. I truly believe we need someone like you with your site to deal with all these missing cases. We need more input from the public and I believe people will be hesitant to contact sites like the above were they may feel any information they have is insignificant . However these people may just hold the missing link they have discovered by websleuthing and reporting it to the site . They need a site like yours. Why don't you link up with them and people will feel less inhibited about discussing things they may suspect or know about regardig Shannon Matthews case etc.

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Hi, sorry for the delay, but I'm happy she was found.

Brian

In addition I think I read Shannon had a twin brother who lives with his real dad?

Maybe he can pick up telepathically where Shannon is or some feelings regarding her?

More news on Shannon Matthews:

Hunt for Shannon Matthews is the biggest since the Yorkshire Ripper

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/12/hunt-for-shannon-matthews-is-the-biggest-since-the-yorkshire-ripper-89520-20348306/

Website bid to raise Shannon awareness

Mar 12 2008 by Katie Campling, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-west-yorkshire-news/2008/03/12/website-bid-to-raise-shannon-awareness-86081-20610946/

Missing Shannon 'abducted to hurt mother'

http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/latest-york-and-humberside-news/Missing-Shannon-39abducted-to-hurt.3867853.jp

Shannon Matthews mother's 999 emergency call released

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/05/nhannon105.xml
By Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Correspondent

Last Updated: 1:54am GMT 06/03/2008

Shannon Matthews 999 call (FULL)transcript

Last Updated: 1:54am GMT 06/03/2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/05/nshannon205.xml

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Poor little Shannon Matthews. Too poor for us to care that she is lost?

Her family may seem feckless. Neighbours can’t afford to run a PR campaign. How the public spotlight faded on missing girl

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3463481.ece

Boy witnesses tell of new last sighting of 'sobbing' Shannon Matthews

Exclusive by Lucy Thornton 7/03/2008

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/07/boy-witnesses-tell-of-new-last-sighting-of-sobbing-shannon-matthews-89520-20342504/

VIDEO

Shows little outside a house on Shannon's estate-also a neighbour searching and working with a team of neighbours using pc to try to co-ordinate a search for Shannon.

Neighbour also says Shannon would not have been abducted from this estate as everyone looks out for each others children (essence of what she said)

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Shannon Matthews' stepdad denies claims he hit her

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/10/shannon-matthews-stepdad-denies-claims-he-hit-her-89520-20346283/

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Residents of Shannon Matthew's street view each other with suspicion

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/08/residents-of-shannon-matthew-s-street-view-each-other-with-suspicion-89520-20344170/ 

In pictures: Shannon Matthews

(These are different from ones I sent you before)

 DAILY STAR: "SOBBING SHANNON WAS BEING BULLIED."

http://www.anorak.co.uk/tabloids/181711.html

  Hope this helps, 

Hope you and your family are well 

 Regards

 Alex


Hi Brian 

Great news on Shannon Matthews!  Well done saying that she would be found & getting the location close.

 Re your RVs on her, the 1st RV 22/2/08 with a long rectangular shape drawing, I was trying to figure that out a few nights ago & since the news of her being found, it could be the base of a bed as looks like its separated horizontally. A bed base like that has either draws or sliding doors to put sheets, blankets in etc, as you probably know..

 Update below from the BBC, on the man they arrested who apparently goes by 2 different names & already known by police:

 “Police found her hidden in the base of a divan bed in a house in Batley Carr, West Yorkshire, a mile from her home.

A man, 39, a distant relative of Shannon said locally to use two names - Paul Drake and Mick Donovan - has been arrested on suspicion of abduction. “

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm

Apparently neighbours hadn’t seen the man that was just arrested for a few years, then he came back recently & I read somewhere that there was a female visiting him that could possible be his sister (if the news got it correct) – perhaps that’s the Jill you mention. We’ll see anyway.

The brick house that looks more like apartments as you say on your RV, has nbr 6 next to it, but news are saying its nbr 26, but strange because the neighbour that reported to police hearing childrens footsteps from the raided apartment, the neighbour was from nbr 4. Numbers dont seem to link as being joined, 26 to 4 – your 6 sounds more likely, but we’ll see.

 The nbr 478311629 cant be coordinates for that area, so must be a phone nbr I suppose, but on the 3rd RV the last 4 nbrs 1629 show again with the triangle next to it (you translate as 1627 but the last nbr is a 9). I wondered if 1629 is a time & CM seems to link with it, which must be the stepfather Craig Meehan that could be linked to the man arrested . Perhaps you keep mentioning the West High school meaning Craig Meehan & the arrested man were at the High School & wasn’t referring to Shannon’s school.

 This is how close Shannon was found – by public transport it takes 3 minutes between Dewsbury & Batley http://www.northernrail.org/pdfs/trackworks/4716_Leeds-Heb_Bdg.pdf   -  coincidently, there is a time 16:29 Dewsbury for Mon-Fri travel.

It seems a bit strange that web news state that the stepfather CM had been hitting Shannon (according to the mother’s parents & other kids in the family), although Craig Meehan denies it & another child of the mothers had a bruised stomach & even Shannon’s mother is seen on tv with a black eye.

 I wonder if the mother is in one of those awful blind cases where she covers-up for the stepfather CM, in fear of being left alone, as it seems CM is supporting them all financially.

 The mother’s parents said Shannon’s mother’s Karen   

“turned up at her house on the day Shannon went missing saying she needed to talk. She said: "Karen had a black eye. She said she'd had an argument with Craig. It was clear she was upset.

"She told me she'd had a fall but I knew there was more to it. She'd been rowing with Craig that morning - all the kids would have seen that.

"She said she'd fallen against a cupboard but you don't get a shiner like that falling against a cupboard.

"I asked her if Craig had done it but she said 'no'. On the Monday night they'd had an argument.

"They fight a lot. I asked if they'd had a row and she said it was just a tiff, she always covers up for him.

Possible contradictions here from Shannon’s mother Karen & sounds like she is covering for CM, but I maybe wrong :

“Mr Meehan was on a day off from his job as a supermarket fishmonger and Miss Matthews had been at a friend’s house when Shannon failed to return home. A tearful Miss Matthews said: “When I got back. I asked Craig where she was and he said he hadn’t seen her. Craig went out to have a look about 6.30pm and when he came back we rang police.

“They (were) very close on Monday night they were having a tickle fight. She was more of a daddy’s girl than mum’s girl and they spent a lot of time together.

"They watched telly together and they would cuddle up together. She saw him as a dad and more as a father figure.”  

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/23/nmissing123.xml 

And more misleading info In other news, where CM said :

 “I was working on the Monday night before she went missing so I don't know if she came home upset. I work stupid hours a day so I couldn't do it anyway and I wouldn't.

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2008/03/09/hunt-for-missing-shannon-matthews-uncle-reveals-row-at-home-98487-20345728/

So where are the kids bruises coming from, as well as the mothers black eye & who is doing the lying?

If what you say on your RV is correct, that Shannon “was going to tell on him” (CM) no wonder she was scared & didn’t want to go home & begging her uncle if she could stay with him.. Who knows the man arrested may have been trying to protect her, after her finding somewhere to stay. But of course the obvious thing is to hand her over to the authorities, after such a search for her. Or did he abduct her?

 

We’ll see how the story unfolds anyway. At least she’s been found alive.

 

Speak soon

 

Kind regards

 

Z

 

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Thanks for this Z, I think what we discussed on the phone is going to happen.

 

Brian

 


3.17.2008

Hi Brian,
 
hope you and your family are well,
 
this dream DD6550, showing the double bed, could be related to the disappearance of Shannon Matthews UK. As you will probably be aware she was found in one side of the base of a divan bed along side Mick Donovan her supposed abductor, in his flat. The sheet could have been touching the floor to hide them as much as possible. You write 'Talk to her', which is strange as there is no-one in the bed in the drawing, but if you talk to a hidden person they will still hear you. It is a strange dream to have and a great coincidence to this case!
 
Keep up the good work Brian!
 
Best Regards

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Hi, thanks and I will.

Have also linked this DD to the case...I think its DD6549.

I would have to see what the bedroom she was found in looks like.

Brian

 


3.18.2008

Brian You must try and get in Contact with this man !

Janet

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Hi Janet, I can try...and I'm glad Joe was able to help police.

Brian

PS

Do you know how he can be contacted?

Brian

 

 

 

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http://www.joepower.co.uk/ 

I am sure this is him brian, good luck

janet

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Thanks Janet, will link to his site and congratulate him on an outstanding job...hopefully he will be able to help me with some of my pending cases.

Brian
 

OK...email sent :)

 


HIya Brian,

    Just read this in the news about a claim by a psychic, who says he helped to give clues as to Shannon's abductor etc.....he also goes on to say that he knows where Madeleine is!!!!!!!!   He said a house nearby.....could be the same house that you have seen in your DD's.Murats!!!!! 

This piece is in the Champion Newspaper

malcolm.hindle@champnews.com  this is the link for the Editor of the paper, for the area where this man is from. 

What do you think? Could this man be barking up the same tree as the rest of us.....in thinking Murat is involved? Am hoping so !!!!

Keep up the good work Brian, best wishes to you and the familly

Cy uk

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Hi, thanks, just sent him an email asking for help.

Brian

UPDATE: 4.2.2008 - There has been no reply to the requests for help, so I'm going to stop asking.

Brian


3.22.2008

I sent you some info on http://www.joepower.co.uk/ You emailed him for some help, Did he reply to you about Madeleine ?  He seemed to talk in the past tense in the report, and now from your Posting I feel that You are  Not Sure if Madeleine is alive. Can you please try and do an Rv on her Please.

Janet

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Hello Janet, I have not received a reply back from any of my requests...for this case, #347 and my pending list.

I hope Madeleine is alive, and I personally have not had a dream that has stated otherwise.  I will try again, but I'm still getting the same thing...so the answer to your question would be yes...but saying yes does not mean I'm 100% sure...the only thing I'm sure of is that a search needs to take place in PDL.

Brian


Dear Brian
 
I have just found this item below in a newspaper called Champnews (www.champnews.com) which is a new one to me, and thought that you and your readers would be most interested in it, particularly where it mentions the university being involved in the place where Madeleine was taken.  Have I read somewhere previously about there being some jealousy or something around Gerry before Madeleine was born?  I would want this psychic on the first plane out there, what do you think?
 
It would appear that he also helped to locate another recent missing child, Shannon Matthews, see the item below too.  This man should be on the police payroll!
 
Kind regards.
Barbara
 
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Hi Barbara....I agree...I just wish he would return my emails, I really needed his help.
 
Brian

4.2.2008

Hi Brian 

“Shannon Stepdad Faces Charges

Craig Meehan, the stepfather of Shannon Matthews, has been charged with 10 offences of possessing indecent images of children.

The 22-year-old was arrested at Shannon's home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, and will appear before Dewsbury Magistrates Court tomorrow morning.”

 http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1311593,00.html

Kind regards

Z

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Hi, glad to hear this and thanks for the link.

Brian

Shannon Stepdad On Child Porn Charges

The stepfather of Shannon Matthews, the schoolgirl who went missing for 24 days, has been charged with 10 offences of possessing indecent images of children.

Craig Meehan, 22, was arrested at Shannon's home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, and will appear before Dewsbury Magistrates' Court later this morning.

Charged: Craig Meehan

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "A 22-year-old man has been charged with 10 specimen offences of possession of indecent images of children.

"In relation to the welfare of the family's children, it is being dealt with by social services.

"Police policy is we are not commenting on the welfare of the children."

Shannon was found hidden in the base of a bed in a flat just one mile from her home after a dramatic 24-day search by police.

She has been in the care of social services since she was discovered at the flat in Lidgate Gardens, Batley Carr, on March 14.

Meehan's uncle, Michael Donovan, 39, who lived at the flat in Batley Carr, was charged with her kidnap and imprisonment.

His trial has been provisionally set for November 11 at Leeds Crown Court.

Fishmonger Meehan has lived with Shannon's mother Karen Matthews, 32, in Moorside Road for around five years.

They share the house with three of Mrs Matthews' children, including Shannon, and the couple's own two-year-old daughter.

 


Morning Brian,

This piece is in todays papers about the man who was with Shannon. I read that you wanted to know a bit about the man...... Sounds aweful... if true.

Keep up the good work , keep smiling,God Bless you and the familly

Cy uk

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Thanks for this...Brian

Shannon man's vile sex secrets

Ex-wife reveals how he tried to strangle and smother her

By Neville Thurlbeck

The ex-wife of Shannon Matthews' kidnap suspect has revealed he secretly fantasised about sex with children.

In an exclusive interview Sue Bird told how Mick Donovan's sick lust was sensationally exposed when horrified teachers found graphic sex notes he'd put in his own DAUGHTER'S lunch box.

He was then BARRED from seeing 12-year-old Jane and sister Mary, aged 10, but SNATCHED them from council care and hid away with them in Blackpool for three days.

READ: I TOLD COPS A WEEK AGO

Sue said: "On top of that he used to force me to dress up as a schoolgirl for sex. That's why none of this is a surprise to me.

"He's actually kidnapped before, just 18 months ago. This man is a real

nasty piece of work."

In an exclusive interview, Sue relived her seven years of hell atthe hands of the man who was hauled from his Dewsbury flat on Friday after police smashed their way in. They found nine-year-old Shannon hidden in the drawer under a divan bed. As West Yorkshire police gently questioned the youngster about her 24-day nightmare, Sue broke down and revealed she always had doubts about loner Donovan as he:

SPANKED her in bed while fantasising about being a kinky father or headmaster.

TRIED to STRANGLE her during one bizarre romp.

THREATENED to cut her throat unless she walked ten miles to get him drugs.

ENJOYED beating her black and blue—especially in bed.

Sue, 37, said: "Mick was a walking, ticking time bomb.

"He's so horrible, something like this was bound to happen. If he could kidnap his own children, he could kidnap anyone.

"When I heard little Shannon had been taken I was sick to the pit of my stomach. And I knew in my heart that it could have been Mick."

Sue insists 39-year-old Donovan— uncle to Shannon's stepdad Craig Meehan—had an unhealthy interest in children right from the start of their relationship in 1990.

"When he made me dress like a schoolgirl he'd want me in knee-high white socks, flat shoes and a tight top," she said.

"I had to tie my hair up in plaits. And always no make-up, to complete the schoolgirl look.

Knife

"If I was wearing make-up, he'd make me go and wash it off.

"His nickname for me was ‘Toots' and schoolgirl sex was always his fantasy. He'd often want it twice a day.

"He'd spank my bottom during sex, too. He loved being in control. He said he loved feeling like a ‘father or headmaster' in bed.

"I went along with it because he was very dominating and violent.

"Sometimes, his violence would spill over into our lovemaking. He was having sex with me once when for no reason, he started strangling me. I could feel his hands tightening around my neck, so I pushed him as hard as I could and he fell off the bed.

"I really thought I'd had it. But he just put on his dressing gown and walked out of the bedroom.

"After that I started sleeping with a knife under the mattress. I honestly thought he'd kill me one day.

"He was really horrible, an obsessive compulsive man who had to be in control all the time—especially in a sexually violent way."

Sue, who suffered years of brutal beatings at the hands of the 5ft 6in, nine-stone Donovan, then recalled the terrifying moment when her worst fears nearly came true.

"A sixth sense woke me up," she said. "We'd gone to bed after a row and I suddenly awoke to find him straddling me and about to smother me with a pillow.

"I fought him off and he backed away, claiming he'd done it in his sleep. I never slept with him again after that. I stayed downstairs with a chair against the door.

"He was addicted to opiates, and when he was high he wanted sex all the time. But when he was off them, he used to have black moods and that's when he'd attack me. Anything would set him off. He used to punch me, kick me and slap me.

"He's broken my cheekbone and bust my nose several times. I always had cut lips and bruised ribs."

Although scrawny, Donovan has immense strength, says Susan.

"Once when the police came round to sort out a fight, he went ballistic," she said. "There were five hefty policemen and it took them all to pin him down.

Berserk

"He had a ferocious temper and it gave him superhuman strength."

Sue then recounted the chilling moment when, starved of drugs, Donovan threatened her with an eight-inch carving knife.

She said: "He knew my grandad had some powerful painkillers he was taking for his cancer so he wanted me to walk the ten miles from Dewsbury to Bradford and back to get them.

"I refused and he went berserk. He grabbed me from behind, slammed me against the wall and thrust the tip of the knife into my throat. I thought I was going to die. He looked me in the eyes and yelled, ‘Just do it girl!'

"So I did and my grandad handed the drugs over because he knew I'd get a beating if he didn't."

Susan first met met Donovan during a hospital visit to her mother in 1990. He was a fantasist who had changed his name from Paul Drake in honour of his TV idol, former Neighbours star and singer Jason Donovan.

The pair moved to Bradford where they married after Susan gave birth to their first daughter Jane in May, 1995.

(We have changed the names of both Donovan's children to protect their identities.)

Then just seven weeks after the birth of second daughter Mary in June, 1997, Susan was forced to flee Donovan for good.

Police had been called to the family home SEVEN times to deal with his violence but Sue always dropped charges.

But if she feared for herself, she was terrified for elder daughter Jane, with whom he had a worrying obsession. Susan felt unable to trust him alone with her. She said: "Something happened to Mick after Jane was born. He got very obsessive with her in an unnatural way.

"He was always interested in changing the girls' nappies. He delighted in it and took ages over it. It used to make my skin crawl.

"I couldn't relax around him or fully trust him with our children.

"There was something not quite right about him.

"As soon as we had the girls he became overpoweringly controlling and demanding.

Worried

"He'd take Jane out from 9am in the morning and not bring her back till 9pm at night. I was sick with worry.

"But he intimidated me so much I was afraid to go out in public with him. And I was shocked when we finally split and he said, ‘You're not taking Jane—but you can keep that thing!'—referring to our Mary."

For the next two years Sue lobbied social services to have Jane removed from Donovan. "I was really worried about her but they didn't seem to take me seriously," she said. Worse was to come. Susan became so depressed by her plight that in late 1998 she was admitted to hospital after a nervous breakdown.

"That's when social services let Mick have Mary, too," she said.

"Now both my daughters were under his control. I was bouncing off the walls with worry that he'd do something."

Finally social services acted in 2000, took both girls from Donovan and, with mum Sue still too depressed to care for them they were placed in a foster home. But their father still had access—until the scandal of the lunch box sex notes.

Sue, who now lives in Cornwall, last saw Jane in 1996 and Mary in 1998. They are being looked after by social services.

Sue told us: "My mental health deteriorated because of Mick. Much to my regret, I was in no fit state to look after the girls as I was in and out of hospital."

Sue's four other children by two other partners all live with their fathers.

She told us: "I can imagine how Shannon's parents are feeling right now because I've been through exactly the same fears.

"I just feel so sorry for Shannon. I wish something had been done about him earlier then maybe this wouldn't have happened.

"I'm so glad she's been found but I feel sick thinking about what he could have done to her.

"I don't believe that poor girl was there of her own free will.

"That man is sick. What would a 39-year-old man want with a nine-year-old girl?

"I just want to tell her family how sorry I am. I feel guilty that I didn't do enough to take this man off the streets earlier.

"I knew that something like this could happen but nobody would listen to me.

"I never want to see that creature Donovan again and I wish I'd never set eyes on him.

"He's the most destructive person I've ever met. The law and social services should have seen this coming long ago."


Hi Brian,
 
It's been confirmed, she's alive and safe thank god.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3553837.ece
 
I have always been convinced that Madeleine is alive - I don't know why but I've always felt it really strongly. I just hope there is some kind of positive breakthrough at some point.
 
I think what you do is amazing, not just with Madeleine but all the other missing people. It's horrible to think there are so many sick people out there. I have to say though, that reading your site makes me realise there are also a lot good people. It definitely restores my faith in humanity ;-)
 
Take care,
 
Claire

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Thanks Claire, and I'm sorry for the delay in responding.

Brian


Hi Brian

I know this case is over but it is far from solved. Anyway, her stepfather has been arrested for having indecent images of children on his computer!
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7326006.stm
 
Hope your rash is not giving you too much trouble!

Mandy

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Hi, thanks...was a little more than I rash, but I think it's under control...will post this link.

Brian


4.7.2008

RIGHT AGAIN!!

 

4.8.2008

Hi Brian 

Glad your better I know you don’t make any money from your website but it must be nice to have so many people who care about you.

 "west high -- stop -- she was going to tell on him - she told her friend - not police -- he did not know - go to high school"

 I think the first half of this DD might refer to the mother of Shannon Matthews and the last half refer to Michael Donovan that he wasn’t told in time by her that the plan was off and took Shannon home.

 The following exert from an article leads me to think this

 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1013668.ece 

“She allegedly blurted out: “I knew where she was all the time.”

Karen has told cops the background lay in a plan to leave her partner of four years, supermarket fishmonger Craig Meehan, 22.

She claims the man accused of snatching Shannon – Craig’s uncle Michael Donovan, 39 – had offered her a place to live.

She had packed clothes but at the last minute “bottled out” and stayed put.

Police are now investigating whether at that point on February 19 Donovan had already picked up Shannon from school.

Panicking Karen reported she had gone missing on the way home – then watched in horror as the search escalated. “

 Thanks

Liz

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Thanks Liz...will also post this information.

Brian


12.4.2008

Hi Brian an update on this case. Her mother and great uncle have been sentanced for her abduction. According to a UK documentary she had been drugged for 18months prior to her abduction using a range of drugs to include temazepam & an anti travel sickness drug. She was kept quiet whilst being held with drugs and strapped to a beam whilst her abductor left the flat (so she could access the toilet but not escape). According to thie article below she was moments away from death. 

Reports on drug feeding

Exclusive: Shannon Matthews fed cocktail of drugs and anti-depressants

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5288466.ece

Sometimes an update can be useful for people when viewing your site although if they google the name I'm sure they would get many hits.

Regards

G. x

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Thanks G

Brian


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Thanks Z.

Brian


Hi Brian 

Hope all is well with you & family. I can see by your missing persons cases that you are very busy. Some of those located, your DDs were quite impressive.

 Update:  Shannon Matthews mother, Karen Matthews & ex live-in boyfriend Craig Meehan’s uncle, Michael Donovan, were in court today & the case will continue for about 4 weeks. Hopefully we will then hear the truth about the whole case of Shannon Matthews supposed abduction.

 I’m wondering if, the name Jill / J, & other info that was on your DDs linked with this case, will come up somewhere eventually – we’ll see.

 Schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was drugged and tied to a roof beam after her mother hatched a £50,000 fake kidnap scam, a court has heard.

“Donovan used a strap found tied to a roof beam to restrain Shannon when he left the flat to go shopping. The strap was discovered "knotted on to the roof beam"

Sky News 12 Nov 08 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Shannon-Matthews-Was-Drugged-And-Tied-Up-Kidnap-Trial-At-Leeds-Crown-Court-Told/Article/200811215149532?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15149532_Shannon_Matthews_Was_Drugged_And_Tied_Up%2C_Kidnap_Trial_At_Leeds_Crown_Court_Told

 Kind regards

Z

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All is fine :)

Brian