Missing schoolgirl found alive

[14th March 2008]

Shannon Matthews, the missing nine year old who went missing on 19th February in West Yorkshire, has been found alive.

West Yorkshire Police have confirmed that Shannon Matthews has been found. She was found in nearby Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr, where local residents said that police smashed their way into a flat their and came out with Shannon.

Shannon had been concealed in the base of a divan bed. A 39-year old man has been arrested on suspicion of her abduction.

She had last been seen leaving Westmoor Junior School in Dewsbury nearly a month ago.

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John BARTON

Offence: Drug crime

Convicted, in his absence, of conspiring to import of heroin into the UK.

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