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Michael Donovan was put behind bars after kidnapping schoolgirl Shannon Matthews but halfway through his sentence, he was released back into society where he was found spending hours at Leeds marketplace

Shannon Matthews, then nine, went missing for 24 days in 2008, but it later emerged that her mum Karen Matthews faked her disappearance to pocket the reward money

Karen Matthews achieved notoriety after she staged the fake kidnap of her daughter Shannon this time 16 years ago. Here, The Mirror reveals what happened to Britain's 'worst mum' after she was released from prison four years later

The unfathomable Shannon Matthews 'kidnap' case gripped the nation back in 2008 but what happened to her mum Karen after she was released from prison four years later?