Shannon Matthews' kidnapper is has died, 16 years after he plotted with her mother to hide the schoolgirl in his bed. Michael Donovan, 54, helped drug and hide Shannon, 9, in the base of a divan bed in his Dewsbury flat for 24 days in 2008, after conspiring with Karen Matthews to collect money for finding her.Her disappearance sparked a huge search, with hundreds of police and volunteers looking for Shannon while she was hidden.
Donovan has now died at the Three Valleys Hospital in Keighley in West Yorkshire, after being diagnosed with cancer, the Sun reported. He had been diagnosed with Stage 3 throat cancer in February, and was given only a few months to live. Doctors only found the tumour after he went for a routine check-up.Donovan had been held in Three Valleys Hospital, a secure mental health facility, since his release from prison in 2012 over his role in the kidnapping.
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