The 47-year-old became notorious in 2008 when her daughter Shannon was kidnapped. It was revealed that Donovan, 54, had kept the schoolgirl in his council flat for 24 days as part of a plot hatched by her mother. He died from throat cancer earlier this week.
He added: "She was told about it in a phone call and she screamed with happiness. She was punching the air because this man deserved to die. Good riddance to him." Mick Donovan, 54, held terrified Shannon captive in his rundown council flat for 24 days while hundreds of police officers along with locals searched for her after she disappeared in Dewsbury in 2008. The warped kidnapper insisted he was only "looking after" the terrified schoolgirl but he had in fact plotted, along with her twisted mother, Karen Matthews, to claim a staggering £50,000 reward for her safe return.
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