All news on the topic: Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews

Karen Matthews became notorious in 2008 when her daughter Shannon vanished and was then found to have been behind the kidnapping along with oddball Michael Donovan who has died of cancer

An ex-friend of Karen Matthews described it as 'karma' after news that Shannon Matthews' kidnap plot accomplice Mick Donovan had died of brain cancer

The unfathomable Shannon Matthews 'kidnap' case gripped the nation back in 2008 but what happened to her mum Karen after she was released from prison four years later?