Britain’s worst mums
Oct 22, 2020
3 minutes
Clutching her little girl’s teddy bear, sobbing, Karen Matthews, then 33, begged on TV for her 9- year-old daughter Shannon to be returned.
Everyone felt her anguish: a missing child has to be every parent’s worst nightmare.
And yet, as we discovered, that natural impulse to love and protect your child sometimes fails to kick in - when it transpired Karen was jointly behind the abduction.
The infamous kidnapping has been immortalised in a TV drama, books and documentaries, and, 12
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