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1st March 2017
08:59am GMT

"Don't get me onto the McCanns, we've all got something to say about them. I've been judged and I'm paying for it but Maddie's mother was bad too. At least my daughter was never left alone. We're too lower class for them but we can still have an opinion. There seems to be one rule for them and another for us but she was a dreadful mum."Matthews (41), who now goes by the name Kate, served a prison sentence for the false abduction of her then nine-year-old daughter but claimed she never left her child alone,
"She left one, two, three babies alone while she was out eating and drinking with her mates. My Shannon was kept away from her family but she was never left alone."Shannon's ordeal has been back in the spotlight in recent months following a BBC dramatisation of the infamous events surrounding her 2008 'disappearance' from The Moorside Estate in West Yorkshire. The drama, which starred Sherlock's Sian Brooke and Cilla star Sheridan Smith, followed the story as local police and community mounted a frantic £3.2million search which took on the scale of a high-profile murder enquiry. Shannon was later found in the home of her mother's partner's uncle, Michael Donovan. Last night, Channel 5 aired a documentary looking at those involved in the case and examining the potential for the investigation to be re-opened. Join the conversation on Twitter @HerFamilydotie
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