New documentary about Shannon Matthews case - was anyone else involved in plotting her kidnap?

If you, like numerous million other viewers, tuned in to the BBC's two-part drama The Moorside in current weeks, the Shannon Matthews case will be sparkling in your mind (however you may get yourself updated right here if no longer).

The programme dramatised the real-existence events surrounding the disappearance of nine-yr-old Shannon Matthews again in 2008, when her mother Karen Matthews changed into discovered guilty of getting plotted her kidnap at the side of her then-boyfriend's uncle, Michael Donovan, which will declare and then split the reward money.

Karen and Michael have been every sentenced to 8 years in jail for their merciless crime, however have been each released after serving simply 1/2 of that time. However, Karen's buddy Julie Bushby, whose person (played by using Sheridan Smith) featured closely in The Moorside, has lately revealed that she believes there have to were others worried in the plan. And in a brand new documentary to be aired on Channel five, she's set to explain why.

In a trailer for the brand new genuine programme, Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next, for you to air tonight (Tuesday twenty eighth February) at 10pm, Julie can be heard saying: "I assume others had been involved. There's were given… others have were given to be worried.

"Like I've said earlier than, and I'll say it again, Karen didn't have the intelligence, and Donovan, from what the law enforcement officials have stated, he did not have the intelligence."

According to the show's synopsis, it goals to "examines her kidnapping and why people close to the case consider the police have to reopen their research."

And it looks like Julie, who endured to visit Karen in jail up till her release in 2012, desires to ultimately get to the bottom of what took place.

"Her story changed every time," she says in the documentary. "I kept a diary, and I could try to evaluate, you know… I kept a diary once I went to go to, and I have been evaluating what she'd advised me that closing visit, to this go to, after which, you already know, and there was simply not anything that I could connect."

Maybe there may be extra too it than all of us notion, then. We'll should song in to Channel 5 tonight to discover.

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