Mother charged in Matthew’s kidnap case

THE MOTHER of Shannon Matthews has been charged in connection with the nine-year-old's disappearance.

Karen Matthews, 32, of Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor, faces charges of child neglect and perverting the course of justice.

Shannon vanished on 19 February while on a school swimming trip and was found 24 days later after one of the largest missing person hunt's West Yorkshire Police had ever conducted.