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...Several other members of Shannon's families have also run up against the law since her disappearance and return. Shannon's stepfather Craig Meehan, 22, was remanded in custody earlier this month on charges of possessing indecent images of children. His mother, Alice Meehan, 49, and his sisters Amanda Hyett, 25, who lives next door to Shannon's family, and Caroline Meehan, 29, have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice...
...went missing, Shannon Mathews was last seen in front of her school after an after-school swimming lesson. Her disappearance sparked one of the largest searches in British history. Three hundred police officers interviewed 6,000 people and searched 3,000 homes in an investigation that they estimate cost more than $2 million...
...case provoked a roller-coaster of emotions in the Dewsbury Moor council estate where Shannon lived. The impoverished public housing project seemed to find in Shannon's disappearance a cause around which to rally. The local community started its own fundraising campaign, to which one retired resident offered his life savings: $1000, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper. But initial jubilation after Shannon was found safe turned quickly to anger as a flurry of arrests turned suspicion towards her family...
...Shannon's mother, initially held up as a paragon of noble stoicism, appeared to incorrectly state how many children she had in media interviews (she said six; in reality she has seven children from five fathers). Then came the connection to the television show, Shameless, a satire on residents of council estates, and their harebrained schemes to claw themselves out. As anger turned on the Matthews family this week, police boarded up the house Shannon and her family had inhabited and distributed leaflets to local residents instructing them "not to jump to conclusions about people who may be involved...
...profile abduction last year of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann, the doe-eyed daughter of a prim pair of young professionals. That case seemed to play out as a distinctly middle-class drama: the McCanns were dining at a sun-splashed Portuguese resort when their daughter went missing. The Shannon Matthews case, on the other hand, has provided a stark reminder to the residents of the Dewsbury Moor council estate - and to Britain as a whole - that the lives of the poor are too often of interest only when they become too desperate to ignore, or too bizarre. with reporting...