A hoax kidnapping plot that gripped the nation is the focus of a new feature-length documentary. The Disappearance of Shannon Matthews will air tonight ...
Karen was released after serving half of her sentence and reportedly moved to the south of England to start a new life. After further investigations, Shannon's mum Karen was arrested and charged with child neglect and preventing the course of justice. Stay in the know. She was last seen outside her school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, but had not returned home, according to her mother, Karen Matthews, who contacted the police. The Disappearance of Shannon Matthews will air tonight (March 15) on Channel 5. Stay in the know.
Craig Meehan is the former partner of Karen Matthews, the mother who kidnapped and hid her own child, Shannon, for financial gain in 2008.
I know he’s got to live somewhere but he is well known around here so you think he’d go somewhere out of the way. And that’s what he did. In a controversial scene in ITV’s dramatisation of the story, The Moorside, a scene showed Craig Meehan downing a bottle of Calpol. Craig was seen handing out leaflets and working as part of the community to try to find the nine-year-old girl. He is a convicted peadophile. “One of the dad who has kids at the school grabbed him in the street and belted him and told him to get gone.