Shannon’s stepdad remanded on child porn charges

THE stepfather of Shannon Matthews was remanded in custody yesterday charged with possessing 140 pornographic images of children on two computers.

Craig Meehan, 22, of Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, appeared before a magistrate in Dewsbury, accused of 11 specimen offences of possession of indecent images of children.

He was arrested and charged on Wednesday, on the same day Shannon’s mother, Karen Matthews saw her daughter for the first time since her disappearance.