Discover Habbo's history
Treat yourself with a Secret Santa gift.... of a random Wiki page for you to start exploring Habbo's history!
Happy holidays!
Celebrate with us at Habbox on the hotel, on our Forum and right here!
Join Habbox!
One of us! One of us! Click here to see the roles you could take as part of the Habbox community!


Results 1 to 2 of 2
  1. #1
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    United Kingdom
    Posts
    5,769
    Tokens
    1,249
    Habbo
    Beneficial

    Latest Awards:

    Default Shannon Matthews 'drugged' in flat

    Missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews had been drugged and subdued in the flat where she was found, a court has heard.
    Shannon's mother, Karen Matthews, and Michael Donovan are on trial over the nine-year-old's disappearance in West Yorkshire in February this year.
    They deny kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice.
    Leeds Crown Court heard the plan had been for Mr Donovan to eventually release Shannon and "find" her in a local market and claim reward money.
    Prosecutor Julian Goose, QC, told the court Ms Matthews, 33, had raised the alarm about her daughter's disappearance on 19 February.
    He said it was part of a "wicked and dishonest plan" to kidnap the girl by her mother and the man whose flat she was found in.
    Ms Matthews was widely seen on television making impassioned pleas for her daughter's safe return - but all the time she knew exactly what had happened to the girl, the court heard.
    'Deliberately misleading'
    Mr Goose added that Mr Donovan kept Shannon "drugged, subdued and hidden from the public" and bought newspapers which described the extent of the investigation.
    The court heard that their plan had been to claim the £50,000 reward money put up by the press for the youngster's return.
    Mr Donovan later told police the plan was to release Shannon in Dewsbury market and for Donovan to "discover her".
    Ms Matthews, of Moorside Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, and Mr Donovan, of Lidgate Gardens, Batley Carr, deny the charges.
    The disappearance of Shannon, now 10, became one of the highest-profile missing person inquiries ever seen in the UK.

    After tricking Shannon into his car on her way home from a school swimming trip, Mr Donovan kept her in his flat and watched as the search unfolded and the reward money climbed, Mr Goose told the jury.
    As the days went by more and more police were drafted in to the search which became the biggest-ever conducted by West Yorkshire Police.
    "They were responding to Karen Matthew's wicked and dishonest lie," he added.
    The court heard the cost of the search to the police was almost £3.2m.
    At its height, the search involved more than 300 police officers and even more members of the public.
    Within a half-mile radius of where Shannon was last seen, 1,800 premises were searched and extensive house-to-house inquiries were conducted at many more.
    Three-quarters of all the UK's specially-trained police dogs were brought in to assist in the search.
    More than 800 CCTV tapes and computer hard drives were examined and 41 other areas were searched outside the half-mile radius of Moorside Road, including operations in Cumbria and Nottinghamshire.
    "Karen Matthews even gave deliberately misleading lines of inquiry to the police," Mr Goose told the court.
    Mr Goose said she even gave officers one address where she said she had been told by a clairvoyant that Shannon might be found.
    The case continues.
    what is fetch gretchen?

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Apr 2005
    Location
    Nottingham
    Posts
    9,691
    Tokens
    918

    Latest Awards:

    Default

    I saw this article earlier, kind of sick tbh.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •