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Shannon Matthews trial Day 7: Shannon drugged for 20 months

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 trial Day 7: Plan went wrong

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

Shannon Matthews day 7: Karen offered home by Donovan

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

Shannon Matthews trial Day 6: Moment Shannon was found

Officer heard "stop it, you're frightening me" and then she appeared.Read

Shannon Matthews trial Day 6: Karen's TV appeal

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

Shannon Matthews trial Day 5: Delay after prison attack

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

Shannon Matthew trial Day 4: Neighbour heard child's laughter

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

Shannon Matthews trial Day 4: Donovan attacked in prison

THE man accused of kidnapping Dewsbury schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has appeared in court just hours after he was attacked in prison.Read

Shannon Matthews trial Day 4: Donovan 'creepy loner'

THE man accused of kidnapping schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was described in court today as "a bit creepy" by his own niece.Read

Shannon Matthews trial Day 3 - A hunt unlike anything seen before

THE hunt for missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was unlike anything seen before, a top West Yorkshire police officer claimed.Read

Shannon Matthews trial Day 3 - Karen was 'Jekyll and Hyde'

KAREN Matthews displayed a "Jekyll and Hyde" character during the 24-day search for her daughter.Read

Shannon Matthews trial Day 3 - Hunt pulled estate together

THE Dewsbury Moor estate pulled together as the search for Shannon intensified, a court heard today.Read

Shannon Matthews trial Day 3 - Cops followed psychic tip-off

Karen Matthews didn't ask about the welfare of her daughter when police told her she had been found.Read

Shannon Matthews trial day 2 - Listen to Karen's 999 call to report Shannon missing

JURORS at Leeds Crown Court today heard the voice of Karen Matthews reporting her daughter Shannon missing.Read

Shannon Matthews trial day 2 - Michael Donovan tells police Karen made him do it

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

Shannon Matthews trial day 2 - Michael Donovan: Fantasist, weirdo and loner court told

FROM an early age, Michael Donovan was "always telling stories and fantasising about being someone else", the jury in his trial was told today.Read

Shannon Matthews trial day 2 - Search for Shannon cost more than £3m

A JURY was told how the search for Shannon Matthews was one of the largest ever conducted by the West Yorkshire force.Read

Shannon Matthews trial day 2 - Shannon was drugged and tied up in 24 day ordeal

Schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was "drugged to subdue her" as part of a "dishonest and wicked plan" to kidnap her.Read

Shannon Matthews trial day 1 - Jury sworn in

A JURY was sworn in today to try the mother of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews, who went missing for 24 days earlier this year.Read