Mother went shopping night Shannon vanished

THE mother of Shannon Matthews told a jury yesterday she went shopping at a supermarket on the night her daughter went missing.

Karen Matthews, 33, was giving evidence for a second day at Leeds Crown Court, where she is accused of kidnapping her daughter with her co-defendant Michael Donovan.

The court heard Matthews has told five different versions of what happened to Shannon since the girl went missing from her home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, in February.