The mother of abducted nine-year-old Shannon Matthews did not ask about the welfare of her daughter when police told her she had been found but made a “glib comment” about an officer’s mobile ringtone, a court heard today.

The former partner of Shannon Matthews’s mother today told a court in England he had never searched for child pornography on the internet.

A computer belonging to the former partner of Shannon Matthews’s mother contained more than 600 references to “Lolita”, a court heard today.