Evil Karen Matthews ‘desperate to rebuild relationship with seven kids and wants to beg for forgiveness’ 10 years after faking daughter Shannon’s kidnap
BRITAIN’S worst mum Karen Matthews wants to send letters to her seven kids begging them for forgiveness, The Sun Online can reveal. Vile Matthews, 44, was jailed in 2008 for plotting to profit from the staged kidnap of her nine-year-old daughter Shannon in Dewsbury, West Yorks. Matthews, who has seven children by five men, lives […]
BRITAIN’S worst mum Karen Matthews wants to send letters to her seven kids begging them for forgiveness, The Sun Online can reveal.
Vile Matthews, 44, was jailed in 2008 for plotting to profit from the staged kidnap of her nine-year-old daughter Shannon in Dewsbury, West Yorks.
Matthews, who has seven children by five men, lives under a new name in the South of England and works as a volunteer in a Christian charity shop after serving her eight-year sentence.
Now she is desperate to rebuild her relationship with her kids and wants to beg forgiveness for what she has done to them.
And Sun Online can reveal she wants to send them letters.
A source in Dewsbury said she is desperately lonely and wants to try and repair damaged relations with her children.
The source told the Sun Online: “She just wishes she could turn back the clock and be home in Dewsbury with her kids.
“She has missed so much of their lives through her foolishness and greed that she’ll do anything to be able to see them again.
“She plans to write to them all.”
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Matthews was dubbed Britain’s worst mum after she was jailed for eight years for her role in Shannon’s staged kidnap.
Shannon was found hidden under a bed in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, 24 days after she vanished in 2008.
For more than three weeks Karen played the tearful victim, pleading for the return of her “beautiful princess daughter”.
Shannon was found alive and well at the home of 39-year- old Michael Donovan, uncle to Karen’s boyfriend at the time.
Evil Karen and Donovan were later found to have plotted the kidnapping in order to claim a £50,000 reward.
A police probe found evidence she had been drugged. Shannon is now living under a new identity.
Matthews was released in April 2012 after serving half her eight year sentence.
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In an interview last year Matthews said: “I’m not Britain’s worst mum. I didn’t kill anybody.
“I’m scared I’ll die lonely and alone.”
A BBC drama in 2017 called ‘The Moorside’ depicted the events surrounding the 2008 abduction.
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