A FORENSIC toxicologist told the trial of Shannon Matthews’s mother that hair samples from the little girl showed the "potent hypnotic" drug temazepam had been taken by her regularly months before she vanished.Read
SHANNON Matthews’s mother told shocked friends that she reported her daughter missing when a plan to leave her partner to go and live with her co-accused went wrong, a court heard today.Read
THE mother of Shannon Matthews told police the man accused of kidnapping her daughter invited her to stay at his house two months before she went missing, a court heard today.Read
THE jury trying the mother of Shannon Matthews was today played a montage of tearful TV appeals she made during her daughter’s 24 day disappearance.Read
THE jury trying the mother of Dewsbury schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was told it will not sit on Monday as her co-accused is continuing to receive medical treatment following an attack in prison.Read
A LONER. A strange character. A bit creepy. A fantasist. These are all descriptions used in a court to describe a man accused of kidnapping schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.Read
MICHAEL Donovan gave conflicting accounts of what happened to Shannon, the jury was told today. Plus listen to Karen Matthews' phone call to the police reporting Shannon missing.Read