It's been exactly 12 years since Shannon Matthews went missing. The nine-year-old schoolgirl was reported missing by her mother, Karen Matthews, that evening as the the community where they lived in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, banded together.
It was West Yorkshire Police's biggest operation since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, abandoning murder inquiries to join the team while stricken friends and neighbours feared the worst.
Tearful Matthews pleaded for the return of her daughter in front of television cameras, but it was later exposed as an act. After a desperate 24-day long search for Shannon in February 2008, she was found tied up and drugged inside the base of a bed in the flat of Michael Donovan, the uncle of her mum's partner
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