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| 'Blatant lies' of Shannon mother | 'Blatant lies' of Shannon mother |
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| The mother of Shannon Matthews has denied telling "blatant lies" to a jury at Leeds Crown Court. | |
| Karen Matthews admitted going shopping on the night her daughter went missing, saying she went with a neighbour to buy a satellite navigation system. | |
| Ms Matthews, 33, and Michael Donovan, 41, deny kidnap and false imprisonment over Shannon's disappearance. | Ms Matthews, 33, and Michael Donovan, 41, deny kidnap and false imprisonment over Shannon's disappearance. |
| Karen Matthews cried as Alan Conrad QC, representing Mr Donovan, accused her of being deceitful in court. | |
| Mr Conrad said to her: "You're telling blatant lies to this jury, aren't you?" | Mr Conrad said to her: "You're telling blatant lies to this jury, aren't you?" |
| She replied: "No". | She replied: "No". |
| The court has heard how Shannon, who was nine at the time of her disappearance, was found in Mr Donovan's flat 24 days after she went missing from her home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. | |
| What were you doing going to find a sat-nav that night Shannon was missing? Alan Conrad QC, quizzing Karen Matthews | |
| Mr Conrad asked Ms Matthews why she told police in her interviews that she had asked Mr Donovan to pick Shannon up from school. | |
| Karen Matthews said: "I didn't ask him to pick her up from school. I was confused what I was saying." | |
| She also told the court her former partner Craig Meehan had told her to say this to the police. | |
| The barrister accused Ms Matthews of lying to the police throughout her interviews. | |
| "You were leading the police round the houses, weren't you? Telling them lie after lie?" | |
| Ms Matthews replied: "No." | |
| Matthews said she did not want to pose for photographs with Mr Meehan holding missing person posters with Shannon's picture on, but insisted "Craig Meehan and the rest of the family" made her do it. | |
| On the night Shannon went missing her mother told the jury she had gone out shopping for a satellite navigation system for her next door neighbour Neil Hyett, and also gone to a local supermarket. | |
| Shannon Matthews went missing on her way from school in February | |
| Ms Matthews said it was Mr Hyett's wife, Amanda's, idea to go shopping for the electronic equipment. | |
| Mr Conrad said to her: "What were you doing going to find a sat-nav for Neil that night Shannon was missing?" | |
| She said: "At the time Amanda told me it might be a good idea to go there and see if I could see anything of Shannon." | |
| Mr Conrad asked her about going to the supermarket to buy beer and other goods. | |
| Karen Matthews denied she had bought beer, but said she had to "get food for the other kids". | |
| The prosecution allege Mr Donovan kept her drugged and imprisoned in his flat as part of a plan he and Ms Matthews had to claim £50,000 in reward money. | The prosecution allege Mr Donovan kept her drugged and imprisoned in his flat as part of a plan he and Ms Matthews had to claim £50,000 in reward money. |
| The trial continues. | The trial continues. |