Karen Matthews' duped ex-best friend says at last Shannon 'can get some peace now' after kidnapper Michael Donovan's death from brain 癌 老年の 54

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The former best friend of a woman dubbed 'Britain's worst mother' has welcomed the brain?癌?death of the man who kidnapped schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.

Michael Donovan, the uncle of Karen Matthews' then-boyfriend, held her nine-year-old daughter Shannon 捕虜 in 2008 in a 陰謀（を企てる） to （人命などを）奪う，主張する a £50,000 reward.

He has now died at the age of 54 at 個人として-run mental healthcare 施設 Three Valleys Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire, it was 明らかにする／漏らすd yesterday.?

His 運命／宿命 has been 述べるd as 'karma' by one of the women who led 地元の community 成果／努力s to try to find Shannon after her 見えなくなる in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, 16 years ago.

Julie Bushby, who was portrayed by Sheridan Smith in a BBC?dramatisation of the 事例／患者, has 示唆するd Shannon 'can get some peace now'.?

Shannon Matthews' mother Karen Matthews plotted the 偽の 誘拐する in a 企て，努力，提案 to （人命などを）奪う，主張する the £50,000 reward put up for 申し込む／申し出 in February 2009

Shannon Matthews, 老年の nine when she was taken 捕虜, has been 認めるd a new 身元 and lifelong anonymity along with her six siblings

Karen Matthews' former best friend Julie Bushby, pictured here on ITV's This Morning programme in February 2017, has welcomed the death of Michael Donovan as 'karma'

Donovan died on Tuesday after 崩壊（する）ing at Three Valleys Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire

Shannon and her siblings have been 認めるd new 身元s and lifelong anonymity に引き続いて a High 法廷，裁判所 （裁判所の）禁止（強制）命令 in 2020 and are kept apart from mother Karen.

She and Donovan were both 刑務所，拘置所d for eight years at 物陰／風下d 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 in January 2009 and each served four years of their 宣告，判決s before 存在 解放（する）d in 2012.

She is said to be living in a town in the south of England, where she got engaged to 罪人／有罪を宣告するd paedophile Paul Saunders after he worked as a handyman on her home.

Ms Bushby has 答える／応じるd to news of Donovan's death by calling it 'karma', 追加するing: 'At least Shannon can get some peace now.'

She was 引用するd by the Mirror as 説: 'At least now the taxpayer will save some money, and Shannon can get some peace and some 終結.

'Every time a picture of him is shown it must 傷つける her - every time there's a picture of Donovan or her mother, it's と一緒に her picture. That's got to be hard to live with.'

Ms Bushby had been one of the women 伴う／関わるd in the search for Shannon and later 述べるd how the community 'paid the price' for Matthews' and Donovan's 罪，犯罪s.

She was の中で those who slept all night in a community centre with the lights kept on to 行為／法令／行動する as a beacon to help the schoolgirl find her way home.

She told the Mirror in 2016 many people living there felt like they were partly 非難するd for what had happened, said: 'It's as if they punished us for what happened and killed our community spirit.

Karen Matthews is pictured in March 2008 持つ／拘留するing her daughter's favourite teddy 耐える as she feigned an emotional 控訴，上告 for her 安全な return

She is seen here leaving Dewsbury police 駅／配置する in April 2008 after 存在 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d

West Yorkshire Police 解放（する）d （映画の）フィート数 of her 存在 interviewed by officers at the time

'There's only about a handful of the 初めのs left on the 広い地所 - most have moved because they don't want to be associated with it.'

Donovan is said to have told a 親族 earlier this year he had been given just three to nine months to live after 存在 診断するd with 行う／開催する／段階 3 brain 癌.

He was given the 指名する Paul Drake when born but later changed it to Michael Donovan after a TV sci-fi character, before another 最近の switch to Aiden Johnson.

West Yorkshire Police was last year 調査／捜査するing him for the 申し立てられた／疑わしい 所有／入手 of child pornography and he was placed under a 性の 害（を与える） 予防 order after appearing at Bradford 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所.

A 親族 of Donovan said:?'He had told me in the past that he had 癌,?but I didn’t believe him at first because he would make things up. I was told he had 肺 癌 which spread to his brain.

'I’m glad that his 苦しむing is finally over. I feel sorry for Mick - he was a fool to himself.'

And Ms Bushby 示唆するd she was not surprised by the 発覚 about the 性の 害（を与える） 予防 order, 説: 'It’s （疑いを）晴らす he was still a danger to children - so it’s good he’s dead.'?

She told of still feeling it '失望させるing' that 地元のs did not know at the time of Shannon's 見えなくなる than Donovan was 以前 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of 誘拐するing his own daughter 15 months earlier.

Ms Bushby said: 'It would have been over in a breath if we’d been told that but instead it turned into one of the biggest police 追跡（する）s ever.'

Karen Matthews was photographed in February last year with new partner Paul Saunders

Saunders was 刑務所，拘置所d for five years in 2010 for 乱用ing his former stepdaughter?

Karen Matthews and her then-partner Craig Meehan 提起する／ポーズをとるd for photographs outside their home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, after her daughter Shannon was 設立する in March 2009

Donovan was pronounced dead on Tuesday afternoon after 崩壊（する）ing at Three Valleys Hospital, whose 私的な 操作者s Elysium Healthcare 辞退するd to comment.

He had （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to be a 法廷の psychologist 指名するd Wendy?in a 一連の bizarre emails when 試みる／企てるing to 転換 the 非難する over the 陰謀（を企てる）, it has been 明らかにする／漏らすd.

Donovan 申し立てられた／疑わしい Matthews?had 脅すd to 燃やす his house 負かす／撃墜する if he did not go through with the 新たな展開d 誘拐する 計画（する） of her daughter.

In email to the Mirror, he told of having at least four different 偽名，通称s - and the newspaper 報告（する）／憶測d he had emailed others over the past year using the 指名する Wendy who he said had 査定する／（税金などを）課すd him during his time in 刑務所，拘置所.

He wrote in one message to the newspaper:?'The 計画（する） to keep Shannon was only for a 十分な week and not any その上の but Karen Matthews got greedy.'

He also （人命などを）奪う，主張するd Matthews' 脅しs of setting his 所有物／資産／財産 燃えて 脅すd him while he had Shannon in his flat, and that he had 関心s for her life.

He said the 初めの 計画（する） was to 解放（する） Shannon 近づく Dewsbury town centre and then pretend to find her - 選ぶing her up and dashing her to the nearest police 駅／配置する to collect the reward and appear the hero.

A family member of the kidnapper 確認するd the emails were from him, and 明らかにする／漏らすd the man '手配中の，お尋ね者 his 味方する to come out' by 令状ing a 調書をとる／予約する, 追加するing: 'He knew what he'd done.'

Shannon was 報告（する）／憶測d 行方不明の from her home 広い地所 in Dewsbury on February 19, 2008 and Matthews was seen crying on TV when 控訴，上告ing for help finding her.

The 二塁打 bed base where schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was 設立する hiding. This image was shown by the 起訴 as 証拠 during a 裁判，公判 at 物陰／風下d 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 in 2008

A Channel 5 文書の on the 事例／患者 明らかにする／漏らすd CCTV （映画の）フィート数 from Halifax police 駅／配置する and the moment Michael Donovan told officers about Karen Matthews' 関与?

Donovan, whose home was where Shannon was 設立する hidden, told police to 拘留する Matthews

Police 開始する，打ち上げるd a £3.2million search for 行方不明の Shannon, only to discover that she had been tied up and drugged in Donovan's home for 24 days - hidden in his bedroom with a 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 支配するs on how to behave.

Shannon was 設立する in the drawer of a divan bed in his bedroom, just a mile from her Dewsbury home.

It was later 明らかにする／漏らすd that Karen was going out with Donovan's 甥 Craig Meehan, who was not 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d in relation to the 誘拐する 陰謀（を企てる） but was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd for 所有／入手 of child pornography which police 設立する on his computer.

Matthews was exposed as one of the plotters behind Shannon's 見えなくなる when co-conspirator Donovan told officers at Halifax police 駅／配置する: 'Go and 逮捕（する） Karen.'

（映画の）フィート数 of that moment was 明らかにするd and shown in a Channel 5 文書の?looking 支援する on the 事例／患者 in February 2021.?

Matthews and Donovan were both 刑務所，拘置所d for eight years in January 2009 after 存在 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 誘拐する, 誤った 監禁，拘置 and perverting the course of 司法（官）.

She was 解放（する）d in April 2012 after serving half her 宣告，判決 and given a new taxpayer-基金d 身元 and home.

She is banned from seeing Shannon and her other children, who were put in care.

Donovan was also 解放する／自由なd in 2012, from HMP 物陰／風下d, after serving half of his 宣告，判決.

Julie Bushby was played in BBC 演劇 The Moorside by Sheridan Smith (pictured)

The dramatisation broadcast in 2017 featured, pictured left to 権利, Sian Brooke as Natalie Brown, Sheridan Smith as Julie Bushby and Gemma Whelan as the ir friend Karen Matthews

At his 裁判，公判 at 物陰／風下d 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所, his niece Caroline Meehan had agreed when Matthews' lawyer Francis Oldham asked whether Donovan was 'a loner, a strange character, a bit creepy and a fantasist'.??

The 陪審／陪審員団 was also told his jaw had been broken when he was beaten up in 刑務所，拘置所 and he was 回復するing from 外科.?

When giving 証拠 himself, Donovan said Matthews had asked him to 'look after Shannon' and she would 報告（する）／憶測 her 行方不明の.

It was 明らかにする／漏らすd in 2020 that Matthews had 設立する love with a paedophile handyman who had been doing up her house.

Paul Saunders, 58, was 刑務所，拘置所d for five years in 2010 for 乱用ing his former stepdaughter, who bravely waived her anonymity.

He had been working as a driver taking the 年輩の to hospital and 無能にするd 十代の少年少女s to college.

支援する in January 2010 Oxford 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 heard his offences took place between 2006 and 2009 when his 犠牲者 was 老年の between 15 and 17.

Saunders, who was only caught after he was 刑務所，拘置所d for eight weeks for 利益 詐欺 in May the previous year, was 刑務所，拘置所d for five years and ordered to 調印する the Sex 違反者／犯罪者s’ 登録（する） for life.

Matthews' ex Craig Meehan had been 宣告，判決d to 20 weeks in 刑務所，拘置所 in September 2008 after police searching for Shannon 設立する child pornography on his computer - though he was 解放する／自由なd the same day, having served 166 days on 再拘留（者）.

He is said to have moved 場所s at least five times since then, 繰り返して finding himself attacked by angry 地元のs.

Craig Meehan and Karen Matthews are seen here outside their Dewsbury home in March 2009, two days before her daughter Shannon was discovered いっそう少なく than a mile away

West Yorkshire Police 問題／発行するd this mugshot of Craig Meehan after his 有罪の判決 for 所有するing child pornography in September 2008

Saunders and Matthews got engaged over Christmas 2019?and have been pictured on さまざまな occasions since, 含むing last year on the 15th 周年記念日 of the 陰謀（を企てる）.

She is said to have turned to 宗教 since her 解放（する） from 刑務所，拘置所, living on 利益s while watching motivational 耐える Grylls DVDs with fellow members of her church.

The BBC's 2017?series The Moorside starred Game Of 王位s 星／主役にする Gemma Whelan as Matthews and Sheridan Smith as her former friend Ms Bushby - but 証明するd 議論の的になる, with members of Shannon's family who criticised the 会社／団体.

Shannon's grandparents?June and Gordon Matthews said in 2017: ‘Shannon deserves to live her life in peace. She deserves to be left alone. What happened to her was a 外傷／ショック, a 悲劇. It is sick and disgusting that it is 存在 t urned into a TV show.’?