Shannon Matthews trial Day 8: Bed where Shannon hid - pic

Nov 21 2008 by David Himelfield, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

The bed where Shannon was hidden

Donovan said while Shannon was living at his house Karen had called telling him the reward for her daughter’s safe return had risen to £35,000. He said Karen instructed him to release Shannon in Dewsbury Market and take her to the police station once the reward reached £50,000.

But he told police: “If I had got the reward I wouldn’t have kept it. I would have given it to Karen.”

He said Shannon had told him he was ‘kind and generous, not like her parents’.

Donovan added when police broke into his flat on March 14 they had banged his head against a wall causing him to lose consciousness.

Proceeding.