In Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene vii, Mark Antony chides Lepidus, who has asked him what crocodiles are like, with a meaningless description ending with the words “And the tears of it are wet”.
Here are a few present-day examples of crocodile tears in the media:
1. THEY are the guilty who are caught in the spotlight – partners or relatives of crime victims who weep crocodile tears at police press conferences while all the time THEY are the ones the cops are hunting.
That was the case with Mick and Mairead Philpott, who cried for the cameras even though they had killed their six children themselves.
Here ANTONELLA LAZZERI profiles other tearful fakers who turned out to be hiding the darkest of secrets.
Karen Matthews
WHEN nine-year-old Shannon Matthews vanished on her way home from a swimming pool on February 19, 2008, her mum Karen made a plaintive appeal.
Wiping away tears, she said: “Shannon, we love you so, so much. Please come home.”
Relatives and friends mounted a huge campaign to find the missing girl but police were suspicious from the start. They kept close tabs on Matthews, who spent most of her time away from the cameras partying with friends.
The difference in her behaviour on and off camera even made one of her best friends suspicious and she eventually confronted Matthews in a police car, saying she believed she knew where her daughter was.
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