Shannon Matthews kidnapping to be made into TV drama by Bafta award winning team
THE kidnapping of Shannon Matthews - which was planned by her mother in a plot to make thousands of pounds - will be made into a TV drama by a Bafta award winning team.
The child, then aged nine, went missing in 2008 on her way home from school in Yorkshire which sparked a £3.2 million hunt for the youngster.
She was found drugged and unharmed a month later in a nearby house, with the faked kidnapping carried out by Shannon's mother Karen and Michael Donovan.
Donovan is the Uncle of Matthews' then boyfriend Craig Meehan.
Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews to be made into TV drama
The pair hoped to earn thousands in rewards from national papers and were jailed for eight years for kidnapping, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice.
The story of Shannon's kidnapping will be made into a drama by the ITV Studios production team behind the Bafta award winning Appropriate Adult.
The two-parter, which was broadcast in 2011, is about serial killers Fred and Rose West and stars Dominic West and Emily Watson.
The team are also responsible for See No Evil: The Moors Murders, which is about Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, and This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.
Matthews, 38, Donovan, now 45, were both freed from prison in 2012 after serving half of their sentence.
Filming for the drama is expected to take place this year in the Dewsbury Moor neighbourhood the Matthews family lived in.
