The mother of Shannon Matthews has been jailed for eight years for her role in the kidnap of her own daughter.

Karen Matthews, 33, of Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court after being found guilty last month of kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice.

Her former partner’s uncle, Michael Donovan, 40, was convicted of the same offences and was also jailed today for eight years.

Coco
January 24, 2009 at 12:34

Christ! I forgot about that! I did hide all the oranges though …… and the
giant asparagus. I will just go and put a lock on the Sand M room as well. I
should have done that last week ……….. before I had the WRVS round to tea …….
They made a right bloody mess!

Saul January 24, 2009 at 12:25

Stop and desist with this offer of red hot pokers up the arse. We will be
inundated with tory toffs.

Coco January 24, 2009 at 10:19

Gloria ………. Aren’t they just scum!!!

I would bring back hanging for people who harm animals in any way. In fact
I would personally take full responsibility and I would not wear a mask. I
would ensure that the hangee was looking directly into my eyes as I let the
rope go.

But before anybody was hung I would personally sit there and do unto them
what they had done unto animals for three times longer than they had done it
to the animal. And possibly a hot poker up the arse would not go amiss.

At the risk of alienating myself and becoming the most unpopular poster on
here ………. I would go as far as to say I would do the same thing to anybody who
practices ritual slaughter as well.

Having watched a tv programme where young children battered a goat to death
with small pebbles so that they could get the hang of how to kill animals for
supper – whilst their parents look on is not CULTURE!

It is not RELIGION either! It is barbaric and despicable ………. And I hope
that the New World Order will bring all the peoples of all nations to boot
…….. Even those who live in a time-warp in jungles around the World.

And if anybody wants to challenge these thoughts of mine – Do your worst!!!

Gloria Smudd
January 24, 2009 at 00:35

And neither did you run a grooming salon called Pawside Parlour somewhere
in Pennsylvania where you pierced kittens’ ears with barbells and cut off the
blood supply to their tails with rubber bands until their kitty-tails fell off
and then advertised them on ebay as ‘gothic cats’. (I can’t seem to do links,
but if you google ‘gothic cats’ you will read in The Times Tribune and
elsewhere all about the fiendish couple who have been charged. On a happier
note you should also read that two cats and three kittens have been siezed by
rescuers.)

Yeugh. So, Coco – tell us now; what else didn’t you do?

Coco January 23, 2009 at 16:11

In this instance ………. I reckon the Judge is not giving their brains and
minds enough credit.

Gutter-People and Scallies may not be wise and intelligent in the universal
sense ……… but they are street-wise and have an innate sense of how to scam.

It did not take a lot of intelligence to work out that missing children are
sometimes equal to or synonymous with ……… dosh! Especially given the way we
were saturated with all the news coverage of Madeleine McCann’s mysterious
disappearance and that fabulous fund. (Please note that I say ‘were’!)

For the first time in my life I wished that I had given birth to children
……… just so that I could have one kidnapped!
I wondered how lovely it would
be to sit on TV in a distressed state and wearing a pale silk peignoir ………..
with make-up ladies dabbing at my weeping eyes and tweaking at my hair.

I would have loved for GMTV to collect me in a limousine and whisk me over
to the studios – so that a news presenter like Fiona Philips would share my
pain and make sweet cooing noises about how she would help me all she
could.

I would have loved to have been loaned the use of a private jet and to have
had all the superb treatment from the UK Embassy – with Ambassadors jumping up
and down for me and making phone calls with the Prime Minister – and all my
family gathered around me in a quiet sleepy luxury resort – eating
child-friendly toppings and sucking on lollipops ……….. And doing crazy dances
in front of police officers – just so that people would wonder if I was a
Mason – And jogging and playing tennis and having a few months off work! ……..
Oh! And to have been granted a place at the Vatican ………

But anyway ……….. I didn’t have any kids …….. so I couldn’t pretend to have
had one kidnapped – so I didn’t get the Press coverage or any money and I
didn’t meet my favourite pop-stars and film stars ……… But I understand where
the Matthews Scummy Mummy was coming from.

Ch January 23, 2009 at 15:01

Hm … interesting …

Saul January 23, 2009 at 14:49

The judge, Mr Justice McCombe, told the pair: “The offences that you
committed were truly despicable.

“It is impossible to conceive how you could have found it in you to put
this young girl through the ordeal that you inflicted upon her.

“It is incomprehensible that you could have permitted your friends,
neighbours and in your case, Matthews, even your children to sacrifice time
and energy in extensive searches for the supposedly missing child.”

However, Mr Justice McCombe added that he did not think Matthews and
Donovan could have planned and carried out the kidnap without other
people.

He said: “It is argued for both that they were not of sufficient
intelligence to conceive and implement this plan without the involvement of
others.”

Reporting from Leeds Crowd Court, Gerard Tubb said: “The headline of what
happened in court today were those people who were not there.

“They were mentioned by everyone, including the judge.

“So who are the others, where are they and why aren’t they being
prosecuted?”

Indeed!