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Shannon Matthews' mum is a violent foul-mouthed chain-smoking boozy slob
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/index.shtml ^ | 4/12/8

Posted on 04/12/2008 9:16:50 PM PDT by chasio649

THE brazen mum of Shannon Matthews ABANDONED her first baby in a screaming street bust-up over a fiver for ciggies. Karen Matthews expected £15 from a pawn shop for her stereo. But when lover John Bretton got just a tenner she stormed off leaving him with their two-week-old son.

Revealing all on his ex's squalid life John said: "Karen's a total slob."

READ: Shannon Matthews timeline

The mother of abducted Shannon is workshy and cares about nothing except booze and fags, says the first man to father one of her seven kids.

HER EX: John felt used John was just a boy of 16 when maneater Karen jumped on him, got pregnant and launched into a life devoted to milking the benefits system.

In a shocking insight into slovenly Karen's mucky world John said: "When we met she was 19, good looking, and nicely dressed. But she turned into a total slob."

In ghastly detail, he told how Karen, now facing trial in connection with her daughter's kidnap:

DUMPED him and their newborn baby outside a pawn shop in a bust-up over £5 for cigarettes.

VENTED her foul-mouthed rage in violent rows, chucking pots, pans and furniture at him.

PUFFED up to 60 cigs a day even when she was pregnant.

SCOFFED endless pizzas on the sofa in front of the telly.

BOOZED nights away on budget beer topped up with the cheap fizzy wine Lambrini.

NEVER cooked her kids a meal from scratch and was too lazy even to get takeaways.

Speaking at his home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, 29-year-old John said: "Karen just goes from one bloke to the next, uses them to have a kid, grabs all the child benefit going and moves on. That's all she wants out of it.

Blag

"She's had seven kids with five men and I was her first victim.

"She was staying with an uncle of mine and I used to go over there and hang out.

"It was obvious Karen fancied me and after a few weeks she took me to bed and that was it. We never went out anywhere or anything like that, we just met up at the house.

"She never bothered with the Pill or any other contraception and after a few months she was pregnant. I really thought we had a future together, but as soon as she got what she wanted, she was off.

"None of the blokes she's had ever have money so she doesn't bother going for maintenance from them.

"She just relies on handouts and what she can blag off the council."

John said Karen, now 32, was not what you'd call a natural at motherhood. "Our little boy Tony was just two weeks old when she abandoned both of us in the street," he recalled.

"I'd taken our stereo into the pawn shop to sell it so we could buy essentials for the baby, nappies and milk. But typically Karen just wanted cash for cigs and baccy.

"She demanded that I go in and get £15 for it. But when I came out with just a tenner she absolutely hit the roof.

"She was stood there screaming and bawling how she needed the extra fiver for smokes. Then she just turned her back on me and disappeared off down the road and went AWOL for days."

After several months the couple patched things up briefly and got a council house in Dewsbury.

But John's hopes of settling down were wrecked when he came home unexpectedly one day and found Karen—now remanded in custody charged with child neglect and perverting the course of justice—leading a strange man into the house. She simply told John: "It's over between us, all done and dusted. I've got someone new so get lost!"

No 1 SON: Dad fears for Tony, 11 John said: "Again it was behaviour that I just couldn't believe. No one else would act like that. And one thing I didn't miss when we split was Karen's violent rages—especially when she was pregnant.

"I was hit by almost everything in the house—flying pots, pans, plates, picture frames, even chairs.

"If she could have lifted the table she'd have slung that, too. It's just a miracle that I never ended up in casualty.

"Her foul language turned the air blue, too. It was the worst swearing I've ever heard, and that's saying something!"

Until two years ago John, a kitchen assistant, regularly visited Karen's house on the Dewsbury Moor estate to see Tony, now 11, and watched first hand her sickening descent into squalor.

"I never knew her prepare a single meal from scratch with fresh food for those kids," he said. "She was happy to let them eat burgers, sweets and other rubbish morning, noon and night.

"Karen would just lounge on the sofa scoffing pizza and pie and peas while they had to fend for themselves.

"All of her grub came from the freezer, she was too lazy to go out and get takeaways.

Filthy

"Because of my work I knew about good food and at the very start when we were together I even made our own baby food from fresh. But later on those kids had nothing like a proper diet.

"All she cared about first and foremost was filling her face and chainsmoking on Lambert and Butlers, Richmond or any fags she could get her hands on.

"She's terrible for smoking and never stopped puffing despite being pregnant or having a house full of kids around her.

"She'll smoke at least 60 a day if she can get them. She must have spent a fortune on cigs over the years, it's the one thing in life she really does love.

"The house was a total tip whenever I called round—and the kids' bedrooms were just a filthy mess.

"Sometimes I told them to tidy up and they did it. But Karen couldn't be bothered to even ask them.

"The kids were used to suddenly having strange blokes around the place and having to learn to call them ‘Dad'—which Karen insisted on. I know my son hated that.

"But there was no real respect or discipline, no structure for them to grow up in.

"When it came to school, Karen would just let an older kid from the street take them along, or get one of her friends to do it. And when she thought they were old enough, but still too young in my view, she'd send them to and fro on their own.

"They were cleanly dressed, but she never got round to ironing anything.

BEST PALS: Karen's fags and booze "She did manage to get herself out of pyjamas during the day, but often not until dinnertime.

"It's a terrible thing to say, but she really was a complete slob—no example for any of those kids, unless you happen to see Harry Enfield's Waynetta Slob as a role model.

"And on top of everything, Karen is a big home drinker.

"She loves beer more than anything else, although she'll top it up with Lambrini given half the chance.

"Whenever I've been around there's been plenty of cans of beer plus bottles of vodka that her mates bring round for boozy nights in front of the telly. And there's always loads of empties." John revealed randy Karen even made another play for him after splitting with one of her string of lovers. "Karen was in between blokes and so I went round now and again to help out," he told us.

"I had a steady girlfriend but Karen just leapt on me and we ended up having sex. She told me she'd always loved me and still did.

"To look at, she's not got much going for her. But the way she gets blokes is just by THROWING herself on them.

Stupid

"Afterwards she begged me to leave my partner and come back to her. But when I refused she swore that was it and that I'd never see my boy again.

"It was such a stupid thing to do. And when I confessed what had happened to my girlfriend she forgave me, although we broke up soon after."

HELD: Mick Donovan John then moved on to a new steady relationship with a girl who is now the mother of his six-month old son.

"Things are great for me now," he said. "We're trying to get our own place so we can build a proper family life.

"I haven't seen my son Tony for about two years and I know he's had a lot of problems, but there was nothing I could do as Karen wouldn't let me near.

"My hope is that when everything's settled down, maybe he can come and live with us and have a new start in life—which is what all Karen's kids deserve after the way she's behaved."

As well as charges relating to nine-year-old Shannon's disappearance Karen was this week exposed as a benefits cheat.

She lied to officials, claiming she was bringing up her kids alone.

But for four years she shared her house with fishmonger boyfriend Craig Meehan, 22, who was bringing in £16,000 a year from his supermarket job.

CHARGED: Shannon Stepdad Craig Meehan is also now in custody accused of 11 child porn offences. He was denied bail this week due to fears for his safety. Meehan's 39-year-old uncle Mick Donovan is the man charged with kidnapping Shannon and false imprisonment. He is due to stand trial at Leeds Crown Court in November.

John said he had never known Meehan—but heard worrying gossip about the way he treated the children.

"I didn't like the sound of him at all," he added.

"When I saw him in Asda once I went right up to his face and wanted to hit him, but I calmed down and just told him to keep away from my son."

John then told how bed-hopping Karen actually enjoyed spreading confusion about the paternity of her children, winding her lovers up about who's really the daddy.

"First there was the false rumour that I was actually Shannon's dad," he said.

"And I know Karen told some of the dads their kids were actually fathered by their brothers."

John advised treating a lot of his ex's claims with caution. "I know Karen has said on a TV documentary that she went into care as a child but I don't believe that's true," he told us.

"She never mentioned that to me and there was no need for it to be a secret because I've been in care myself. All I know is that her family were a pretty weird bunch."

Shock

Talking of his horror at what has unfolded since Shannon was found 24 days after she vanished, under a divan bed in a house at nearby Batley Carr, he said: "Now I'm in shock over what may have been going on in Karen's place.

"I trusted her with my son and that's been betrayed. I'll fight to find out the truth of everything that's happened to him."


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: sickhumor
I'm sorry...this is a worthless thread...but found it uplifting...i feel so much better about myself ;)
1 posted on 04/12/2008 9:16:50 PM PDT by chasio649
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To: chasio649

Good for you...


2 posted on 04/12/2008 9:24:29 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: chasio649; television is just wrong
I'm sorry...this is a worthless thread...but found it uplifting...i feel so much better about myself ;)

This happens in the U.S. as well. You're tax dollars subsidize this behavior.

How do you feel now?

3 posted on 04/12/2008 9:33:46 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear

I know all of that...as well as anyone does...it’s just that sometimes i make bad decisions in life like everyone does....but seeing these screwed up dirt balls makes me realize i’m ok.


4 posted on 04/12/2008 9:40:20 PM PDT by chasio649 (sick of it all)
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To: chasio649
I'm sorry...this is a worthless thread...but found it uplifting...i feel so much better about myself ;)

I could not read past the fifth line. Yes, I did go back and count to be sure. Isn't this behavior called the process of evolution or adapting to one's environment????

5 posted on 04/12/2008 9:41:04 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: Grizzled Bear; chasio649
This happens in the U.S. as well. You're tax dollars subsidize this behavior. How do you feel now?

And soon, there will be more examples of Karen Matthews in the world (with more being born every day!!!) than there are of chasio649. How does that additional bit of information make you feel?

6 posted on 04/12/2008 9:41:49 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Past wrongs don't make Wright right.)
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To: Captainpaintball
How does that additional bit of information make you feel?

Like wandering off into the wilderness and living in a hollow tree.

7 posted on 04/12/2008 9:46:00 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Captainpaintball

And soon, there will be more examples of Karen Matthews in the world (with more being born every day!!!)


I’m quite aware of the ever growing population of dysfunctional idiots...but sometimes ya just gotta step back, shake your head and go on....you will drive yourself nuts trying to even figure these people out....How do i feel? If worrying about it made things better, i’d worry a lot more....i can’t fix these people.


8 posted on 04/12/2008 9:47:53 PM PDT by chasio649 (sick of it all)
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To: Grizzled Bear
Like wandering off into the wilderness and living in a hollow tree.

Hey. Maybe I'll see you out in the woods. We can be neighbors...

9 posted on 04/12/2008 9:52:34 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Past wrongs don't make Wright right.)
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To: chasio649; martin_fierro; mikrofon
Shannon Matthews' mum is a violent foul-mouthed chain-smoking boozy slob

Picky, picky, picky. . . .

10 posted on 04/12/2008 10:04:16 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Mum's the word.)
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To: chasio649; Charles Henrickson; mikrofon
The mother of abducted Shannon is workshy and cares about nothing except booze and fags

"Oooh. Let'h talk, girlfren'."

11 posted on 04/12/2008 10:08:09 PM PDT by martin_fierro (Ecce Homo,)
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To: All; anyone
Why on earth has all this British trash journo crap been allowed to foul FR of late? How exactly does this fit with FR'd mission statement?
I must have missed that email.
12 posted on 04/13/2008 3:14:47 AM PDT by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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To: martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson
All she cared about first and foremost was filling her face and chainsmoking on Lambert and Butlers, Richmond or any fags she could get her hands on

I always wondered about that Benson...

13 posted on 04/13/2008 9:14:30 AM PDT by mikrofon (Particularly when he Hedges...)
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