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Shannon: Betrayed from Birth
By Rose Martin
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On February 19, 2008, Shannon Matthews disappeared while making her way home from a school swimming trip in the UK. The 999 call made by her mother, Karen, alerted the police to the nine-year-old's disappearance and sparked a massive search across the north of England. The story dominated newspaper headlines and television news for the weeks that followed and there was even an offer of a GBP 50,000 reward for the person who found Shannon. Twenty-four days later, Shannon was found, concealed in the base of a divan bed in a flat about a mile away from her home in West Yorkshire. The truth that unfolded over the subsequent weeks horrified the public, who had sympathized with the seemingly stricken mother and even helped in the search for Shannon. It transpired that the abduction of the innocent girl had been a wicked plan dreamed up by her own mother in league with an accomplice, her stepfather's uncle, Michael Donovan. Donovan lured Shannon into his car with the promise of a trip to the fair. For almost three weeks, she was kept hidden in his home and given temazepam and travel sickness tablets to subdue her. While Shannon suffered, her captors came up with a plan to release her in Dewsbury Market, and for Donovan to find her and claim the reward money. Shannon was finally discovered when neighbors told police that they had heard a child's footsteps coming from Donovan's flat.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The face of the woman on the cover I knew I had seen before (hello,who can forget such a face?)
but when reading this story, it did not ring a bell. Guess I just looked at some headlines of newspapers back then.
So because I did not know anything, I did not appreciate the writer spoilering from the beginning, what would happen. Yes It is true crime but that does not mean we all know what has happened. I prefer my true crime books in order from how things happened. youth, marriage, what made this person so and so, then the crime.
Okay rant over. Even though that was a bit of a let down, I did find it an interesting read. I still do not understand this woman's reasoning, but I guess I am not the only one? Although I do think that if you are British there maybe not many new information for the reader that wasn't in the newspapers.