Karen was interviewed by West Yorkshire Police in 2008 after she reported her daughter Shannon had gone missing.
Michael Donovan died on Tuesday after collapsing in a mental health hospitalThis is Karen Matthews , pictured for the first time since the man she conspired with to help kidnap her daughter died.
On Tuesday, it was announced that the Donovan had died age 54 after collapsing in a mental health unit at the Three Valleys Hospital in Keighley. He had been suffering from brain cancer. Advertisement He added: 'She was told about it in a phone call and she screamed with happiness. She was punching the air because this man deserved to die. Good riddance to him.'
Shannon Matthews' mother Karen Matthews plotted the fake kidnap in a bid to claim the £50,000 reward put up for offer in February 2009 He and Matthews live together in the south of England and are believed to have been together for around five years. They met after Saunders worked at her home as a handyman.
Matthews was seen in a fish and chip shop despite her disguise and somebody noticed her and threw a plate of mushy peas over her head, according to a passerby who saw her in 2017. Following the alleged attack in a chip shop, a source said: 'Karen thinks this is just the start and wonders how many more attacks she will suffer.
'But now with this new drama on the telly she's petrified. The show is bringing her crimes to the attention of lot more people, who were younger at the time and weren't aware of what she did.' The good cause store is linked to a Christian group who were appalled when they heard what she had done. Karen Matthews' former best friend Julie Bushby, pictured here on ITV's This Morning programme in February 2017, has welcomed the death of Michael Donovan as 'karma'
She was among those who slept all night in a community centre with the lights kept on to act as a beacon to help the schoolgirl find her way home.
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