Similarities Between Mccann And Madeleine Case

Two children, Two dates…. May 2007 and Feb 2008, Madeleine McCann and Shannon Matthews. One family hailing from the middle-class suburbs of Leicestershire the other from the working-class council estate of Dewsbury Moor in West Yorkshire. Whilst one family were enjoying a holiday in a Portuguese resort the other was living a more under privileged existence in Yorkshire, however less than one year later both girls would strangely disappear.
The first anyone heard or saw anything associated with the Madeleine case was on the British and Portuguese news, who were reporting that a young girl had gone missing from a family villa without an apparent trace. Rewards were offered by numerous wealthy celebrities and the Sun newspaper for the safe return, or any information regarding her disappearance. The people of Dewsbury Moor however, who had also months previously heard and witnessed the whole media circus surrounding the McCann case were now themselves faced with a missing child and the circumstances being reported, were that on her way home from after a school swimming class the little girl had just simply vanished.
Regardless of the case similarities the children were not viewed as equals, which is reflected when the cash rewards started coming in for their safe return. Madeleines plight received two point six million pounds, whereas Shannon received a mere twenty-five thousand although rising to fifty thousand pounds. Thus, opening the public and media flood gates citing prejudice and hate against the working class and the people of Dewsbury Moor, who were in fact offering their own money (not that they had a lot) to try and ensure the safe return of Shannon Matthews to her worried