2.20.2008
HI Brian,

A 9 Year old girl has gone missing, I have posted information below, Also there has been a sighting of Madeleine in France, I wont forward you the details as Im sure you have received them already. You mentioned that you have not received any emails regarding Madeleine for a few days, its probably because you mentioned that you cant fully concentrate on her case anymore, people might have got the impression that you are giving up, you probably don't realize it brian, but we are all pinning our hopes on you finding Madeleine. Also Matthew (Daily Merlin) is not posting as much info either.

Regards as Always

Elaine
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You're right and I should have thought of this...I have heard of the sighting in France, it's actually on CNN in the USA now...I hope it's her.
Will add this case to my pending list.
Brian

Huge Police Hunt For Missing Schoolgirl
Updated:15:09, Wednesday February 20, 2008
Hundreds of police officers are searching for a nine-year-old girl who has been missing from her home since yesterday evening.
Missing: Shannon Matthews
Shannon Matthews, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, failed to return home from school and was last seen on playing fields at around 7.30pm.
She is believed to have stayed for after-school activities at West Moor Junior School.
West Yorkshire Police have launched a search of the surrounding area for Shannon, who they said has never been missing before.
Speaking outside Shannon's school, Chief Superintendent Barry South said there were now more than 200 police officers working on the inquiry.
Mr South said the force had closed its nearby training facility for the day to help in the search.
He said he would not go into any details about the police inquiry and said his priority was simply to find the nine-year-old who he said was "very vulnerable".
Asked how Shannon's mother is coping, the officer said: "It's a traumatic ordeal for any parent.
"We've got officers with her at this moment in time.
"My priority is locating Shannon safe and well."
Shannon is described as white, around 4ft 1in and of slim build, with shoulder length, medium-brown coloured hair, which was possibly tied up in a ponytail. She has blue eyes and freckles.
She was wearing a black school jumper with a school logo on it, a white cotton t-shirt, black trousers and a black, waist-length coat with fur round the hood.
She was also wearing pink and grey "Bratz" furry boots.
Her uncle, Neil Hyett, 36, said dozens of local people had been out until 4am looking for the little girl.
He said his niece, who lives next door to him with her mother, Karen, and stepfather, Craig, had not gone missing before and was a "timid" child. He said: "We are extremely worried."
:: Anyone with information is asked to contact
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Please can you visit the link below which will lead you direct to our police website where you will find details of the 9 year old girl who did not return home after school and has been missing nearly 24hrs with temperatures last night reaching to -9 degrees cenitigrade
http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/section-item.asp?sid=12&iid=4624
Please can you do an RV as soon as possible.
Thanks Brian You are truly wonderful
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Will do...and thanks.
Brian

CASE # 610 Shannon Matthews (2.21.2008)(LOCATED)

This RV was correct

http://www.helpfindshannon.org.uk

possible related: DD549 RV610

"Jill, 22/02 west high school 478311629, red white sign, she is with a friend and will be found"

"brick house 6 - K, close to home SW?"

Hopefully Shannon has already been found by now, if not I suggest that police account for anyone she could possible know...it might be possible that she when with someone named Jill and is staying in a brick home. It looks more like an apartment building to me. I did not find a West High school, but I did find a Westborough High School on google maps in the area of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. This is the area the request says she went missing from.

2.22.2008

Brian this is urgent could you help find Shannon as she has disappeared please!

sylvia

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/35768/Shannon-spoke-of-living-with-father

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Hi, this case is open, #610...I believe she is safe and most likely will be found soon.

I'm also working with the way I record my dreams to provide more specific details of events that have or will happen.

This should help in this case and others.

CCTV SHOWS GIRL BEFORE SHE VANISHED

Friday February 22,2008

Have your say(2)

Police have released CCTV footage showing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews shortly before she disappeared.

Shannon, from Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, failed to return home from school after a swimming trip on Tuesday afternoon.

The CCTV images, released by West Yorkshire Police, show the young girl entering and leaving the Dewsbury Sports Centre Swimming Pool.

The footage was released at a news conference at Dewsbury Police Station.

Detective Superintendent Andy Brennan said: "During this investigation we have recovered and continue to recover large amounts of CCTV footage."

Opening the news conference, Chief Superintendent Barry South said that police had not recovered any clothing or any items connected to Shannon.

"We will, and do, continue to recover items that we may feel are part and parcel of the search inquiry and investigation, but I need to stress at this moment in time that we have not recovered any clothing or any items that we believe are connected to Shannon," Mr South said.

He also thanked the community in Dewsbury Moor for their help so far.

"I think it is fair to say that myself, Andy, and the rest of the team have been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm, the energy in particular the patience around Dewsbury Moor. "They've made the job of the police far easier and definitely done their best to cooperate and assist in any way they can. We hope that will continue as the search continues to progress."

Mr Brennan confirmed that Shannon had written on her bedroom wall that she wanted to go and live with her father. But he said this was just part of an array of scribbles that the youngster had daubed on the wall. The nine-year-old had also expressed desires to leave home, Mr Brennan added.

Dear Brian,
Yet another young person has gone missing. Could you post her description and do a reading? I have contacted the Yorks Police with Rob Lindblads details, but they seem blind to these things ....... what sort of a world do we live in when these things are commonplace? It really shouldn't happen.
Many thanks for all your good work. It is making a difference.
Chris

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Hi this case was opened on the 21st, case number 610.

Brian

2.23.2008

Town

Updated:17:12, Saturday February 23, 2008

Please Brian don`t let this be true!!

Have the police been intouch with you ?

They said they may get intouch with you if they needed more info.

She still hasn`t been found yet and are treating it now as a murder inquiry.

sylvia

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Hi Sylvia, no they have not. What they are doing is their job, ever area should be searched, and I hope no harm has come to her.

Brian

Police hunting for missing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews have searched a pond and about 200 houses amid growing fears for her safety.

Divers search for missing girl

Shannon has been missing since Tuesday afternoon, when she failed to return home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, after a school swimming trip.
Police initially believed she may have gone looking for her father's home and got lost on the way.
Around 250 officers, as well as friends and family, have been searching day and night for five days. They have failed to find any trace of her.

2.25.2007

Hi Brian,

Please find below some links and headlines from newspapers regarding

Sharron Matthews.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/26/nshannon226.xml

Police fear Shannon Matthews was abducted

Telegraph.co.uk

New pictures of Shannon released

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7260000/newsid_7265500/7265512.stm

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Fears rise over missing Shannon

53 minutes ago

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jj8JblFCktZUxg7WBiLREWib-w3A

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Sharron Matthews
Man, 43, overpowered in flat then 'crucified'

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Man-43-overpowered-in-flat.3813978.jp

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Man, 43, overpowered in flat then 'crucified'

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Man-43-overpowered-in-flat.3813978.jp

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SHANNON: MAN CRUCIFIED BY VIGILANTES

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/30584/Shannon-Man-crucified-by-vigilantes/

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Shannon Matthews helper is found nailed to a cross

26/02/2008

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Shannon Matthews helper is found nailed to a cross

26/02/2008

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'Attempted abduction' near Shannon Matthews

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/26/nshannon126.xml

Last Updated: 2:14pm GMT 26/02/2008

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Police search home of missing schoolgirl's uncle
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 4 hours ago
A dozen police officers today conducted a fingertip search of a house belonging to the uncle of the missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews. ..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/26/childprotection.ukcrime1

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/02/26/shannon-matthews-helper-is-found-nailed-to-a-cross-89520-20332100/

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11.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=518513&in_page_id=1770

Kate and Gerry McCann pray for missing Shannon's safe return
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Regards

Alex

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Thanks Alex, will post these links and do another RV on this case...I thought she would have been found last week. I did not get any bad feelings from the dream...and I hope I'm right.

The link above says police have searched searched the home of her uncle, can you find a photo of this home?

Brian

Hi Brian,

I found 2 schools near Dewsbury -

West End Middle School,

4.7 miles from Dewsbury BD19 3AE Kirklees, Cleckheaton

And

West Leeds High School,

7.9 miles from Dewsbury LS12 3DT Leeds, Leeds

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Thanks, will post this ASAP.

Brian

2.28.2008

Hi Brian,

I found videos that show the homes in the area but not the uncle's house. I would imagine his is similar. I cannot find photos of it yet. However below is an interesting selection of informative videos from Sky and maps and a sketch of the alleged abductor of the other Shannon .

Hope this helps.

Regards

Alex

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Thanks Alex, will look at these links.

Brian

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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/36270/Did-prowler-snatch-Shannon-in-the-fog-

Six police and two scene-of-crime experts made a finger tip search at the home of family best friend Peter Brown, 34.
The house is where Shannon�s distraught mother Karen, 32, and stepfather Craig Meehan 22, are currently living. They have said they cannot bear to go home without their "little princess".

Earlier, 11 officers spent an hour searching the house of Shannon�s aunt and uncle Neil and Amanda Hyett. Both properties flank Shannon�s home

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Shannon's grandmother is out there searching ields etc for her grandaughter.

http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/Missing-Shannon-Brighouse-grandma-still.3823005.jp

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http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/SEARCH-FOR-SHANNON-Hope-is.3819357.jp

Police sniffer dogs have also been called in, and it is rumoured that experts from the anti-terror squad are helping to examine CCTV footage.
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http://www.anorak.co.uk/tabloids/181247.html

Extracts

Shannon Matthews is missing. Is the media treating her case the same way as it views Madeleine McCann? And, in light of missing Madeleine, is there now a protocol for what occurs when a child goes missing
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I agree it is essential that we have a 'specific 'protocol' in place 'when a child goes missing.' The public for too long has been in ignorance of what is going on within their own homes and in their communities with regard to child abuse. This investigation so far appears to be well organized - the result is in the outcome however. We need to study successful outcomes from all over the globe; use strategies and co-ordination and co-operation worldwide ; study known patterns and psychological factors on abductors ; have paedophiles shamed and blamed and listed on a central board on the internet, television and anywhere they can be viewed by the public. We as a nation of supposedly caring adults should develop this concept and impliment it. Goverment and child agencies involved in child-welfare and so on. should do this in order to create and develop a plan of action - regarding what essentially needs to be done - when a child goes missing. How many children's faces must we see listed as 'Missing or abducted' before we take action? We need bodies both in government and elsewhere who we can believe in and know they possess integrity .

Alex.

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http://www.anorak.co.uk/tabloids/181247.html

Anguished mum Karen and stepdad Craig joined 300 neighbours on a march through streets near their home.

Children carried a banner showing the youngster�s face and a hotline to ring with information.

A hotline. Like Madeleine. A vigil. There is picture of Shannon on her birthday.

Balloons bearing pleas for Shannon�s safe return were released during last night�s vigil.

THIS IS LONDON: "Police search house of missing Shannon�s uncle as detectives treat case �as seriously as a murder�"

A dozen police officers conducted a fingertip search of the house belonging to the uncle of missing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews today.

Officers from West Yorkshire Police filed into the property in Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor which adjoins the home of the schoolgirl who disappeared last week.

The house belongs to Neil Hyett, Shannon Matthews� uncle, and his wife, Amanda.

Detective Superintendent Brennan, who is heading up the search, says:

"I�m convinced that if Shannon had run away that night of her own volition, in a den or hideaway of some sort, we would have found her by now - over a week on from when the investigation opened.

"It is very rare in searches of this kind that a girl of Shannon�s age should be missing for this long without any clues pointing to her whereabouts.

"It is extremely concerning and we are now looking at this on a scale as serious as a murder investigation.

"It can now be said that the tone of our enquiry has changed to a bleaker outlook.

"The shift in emphasis is that we are now looking for individuals who may have been seen on the day of her disappearance, acting suspiciously, or unknown to the local community.

"We are also appealing for anyone who may have friends or family that may have been behaving strangely since Shannon went missing, to come forward.

"At this stage, any shred of information, however insignificant it seems, may help.

"We have a grave concern that she may have fallen into the wrong hands but no arrests have been made at this point, and I must stress at this point that we are not ruling out any possibilities as to what might have happened to her."

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THE OTHER SHANNON=SHANNON SELBY 12 ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION -lived 10 miles away and this happened earlier on same day Shannon Mathews went missing.: Daily Mail

Moor, West Yorkshire, it also emerged that another girl called Shannon escaped an abduction attempt 10 miles away earlier the same day.

Shannon Selby, 12, was walking to school alone in Wakefield when a man pulled up and ordered her to "get in this car now".

She ran away as the man parked and made to chase her on foot.

She reached home safely and her mother rang the police.

An efit of the attacker was released yesterday.

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Interesting comment and some more details re Shannon's family -re size etc

Allison Pearson: "Poor Shannon was already a lost child"

When Madeleine McCann went missing, her parents soon came under attack for leaving their daughter alone in a holiday apartment just a couple of hundred yards from where they were having dinner.

At the time, critics claimed that if the middle-class McCanns had lived on a council estate, they would have been in trouble with the police for neglect. So where is the outcry over the disappearance of Shannon Matthews?

Only nine years old, Shannon was reported missing by her mum, Karen, at 7pm last Tuesday when she had still not walked the mile home. She was last seen leaving school at 3.10pm.

Four hours is an eternity for a little girl to be out on a dark winter�s evening. And Shannon was afraid of the dark. Why did no one walk with her or care where she was?

Karen, who has seven children by five fathers, admitted that she had found a note scrawled on her daughter�s bedroom wall saying that she wanted to go and live with her biological dad in Huddersfield.

Shannon�s friends say she told them she didn�t want to go home. But Karen insists Shannon was fine and enjoys a good relationship with her current boyfriend, 22-yearold Craig.

"Only on Monday, they were having tickling fights and telly cuddles. She views him as her dad." Oh really? In that case, why was Shannon so desperate to be reunited with her real father? No one can doubt Karen�s anguish.

The poor woman can hardly speak, except to sob to the cameras: "Shannon, come home, please come home." But allowing a passing parade of boyfriends to play tickling games with your vulnerable small girl is, at best, na�ve

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DAILY TELEGRAPH: "Shannon �may be in the wrong hands�"

Reports that an alleged abduction attempt of another girl on the same day that Shannon disappeared a week ago were being looked into by police.

According to reports, a man in a gold Ford Mondeo tried to coax a 12-year-old into his car at about 9am in Wakefield, about six miles away.

The girl ran away from him.

THE TIMES: "Abducted, abused� survived"

Lisa Hoodless and Charlene Lunnon were abducted and raped nine years ago, aged 10. They found strength in each other to survive the four-day ordeal and, remarkably, to rebuild their lives

Alan Hopkinson was found by police with the girls huddled together in his front room. He pleaded guilty to the crime and was given nine life sentences.

And that, for the public at least, is where stories like this usually end. Children don�t often survive adbuction by men such as Hopkinson, a truth that weighs heavily on the mind as we await news of nine-year-old Shannon Matthews, missing now for more than a week. If they do survive, we rarely hear from them again.

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http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:NQLk__88kZoJ:www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Police-at-uncles-home-as.3815887.jp+shannon+matthews+uncle%27s+home&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=uk

She got off the bus at West Moor Junior School at 3.10pm but then failed to make the five minute walk to her home with friends.

AND OTHER GIRL -more details re her alleged attempted abductor:

Police in Wakefield are investigating the alleged attempted abduction bid of a schoolgirl between 9am and 9.10am last Tuesday in Oxford Street, Bell Vue, Wakefield, when a motorist asked a 12-year-old girl to get into his car.

As he reached over to open the passenger door, the girl ran off. He attempted to run after her but she managed to escape safely, police said.

The man is described as being in his 20s, of slim build, with dark skin and short dark hair. He was clean shaven and had a large nose.

He was driving a gold-coloured saloon car, about the same size as a Mondeo, with an aerial at the back of the vehicle.

The full article contains 447 words and appears in n/a newspaper.

Last Updated: 26 February 2008 12:28 PM

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OTHER GIRL S SELBY AGAIN

Sketch of her alleged abductor.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/02/26/detectives-probe-attempted-abduction-of-schoolgirl-just-hours-before-missing-shannon-matthews-vanished-89520-20332427/

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/02/21/missing-shannon-matthews-sighting-is-significant-say-police-89520-20326743/

signiicant sighting re Shannon Matthews:

Detective Superintendent Andy Brennan told a press conference an adult claims to have seen the youngster some time between 9.15am and 9.30am yesterday, a few streets away from her home in Moorside Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

By Mirror.co.uk 21/02/2008

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/26/nshannon226.xml

Police searching for missing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews fear she may have "fallen into the wrong hands" after deciding to walk from school alone.

	FPRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT=Police search nearby home"http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1137942530/bclid1155254697/bctid1433219454 --------------------------------------------------
	Police have searched Shannon Matthew's uncle's house in the investigation

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Some extracts from article

Shannon has not been seen since suggesting to friends that she was considering not going back to her home on Tuesday last week.

She appeared unhappy to classmates as they returned by coach from a swimming lesson before not taking her normal route from the school gates.

Mountain rescue teams and specialist dogs, trained to find bodies, have been drafted in to take part in the hunt for her in Dewsbury, West Yorks.

Det Supt Andy Brennan, leading the inquiry, said: "What concerns me greatly is that she may have fallen into the wrong hands."

A similar operation was carried out on the adjoining house in Moorside Road on the Dewsbury Moor estate where her uncle Neil Hyett and his wife Amanda live.

Other properties belonging to members of her extended family are also being searched as part of the inquiry.

and the coach returning from the school swimming lesson last Tuesday were released in the hope of jogging memories.

Mr Brennan said: "The coach is maroon and appears very distinctive in colour. I would appeal to anybody who was in the area last Tuesday to think back to that time."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/7264872.stm#map

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/7264872.stm

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Sightings

19 Feb 1500 - CCTV shows Shannon leaving Dewsbury sports centre

19 Feb 1510 - Gets off bus outside school to walk home

Reported sightings

19 Feb 1700-2000 - Park at junction of Staincliffe and Heckmondwike Roads

19 Feb 1830-1930 - Playing fields behind Westmoor Junior School

20 Feb 0915-0930 - Moorcroft Road

Search locations

Pond behind Dewsbury & District Hospital, Heald Road

Home of Shannon's uncle, Neil Hyett

All possible routes home from Westmoor Junior School

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/27/nshannon127.xml

West Yorkshire Police searched the house adjoining her home in Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor, which belongs to Neil Hyett - Shannon's uncle - and his wife, Amanda.

Officers spent about 50 minutes in the property before leaving. They said the search was routine.

Police have also completed a "routine" search of the semi-detached house where Shannon lives with her mother Karen, 32, stepfather Craig Meehan, 22, brothers Tony, 11, and Cameron, five, and two-year-old sister Courtney.

Other properties belonging to members of her extended family are also being searched.

Shannon, aged nine, has not been seen since suggesting to friends that she was considering not going back to her home on Tuesday last week.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1307065,00.html

In this video shows quick glimpse of Shannon's home and

Friends & Family Hold Vigil 26/02/08

Friends and family of missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews have held a vigil in West Yorkshire. This comes as police have said the nine-year-old "may have fallen into the wrong hands

Below video there are 19 PHOTOS- click on them they show investiation and storm drain searches, ponds and also the houses.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1306627,00.html

Shows house of ex-boyfriend's home of Shannon's mother and how police are still guarding it 'day and night' and how this flat has been given more significance than the other 200 homes police have searched.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1306546,00.html

video re day 5 and how simming pool visit signiicant among all the various footages of CCTV polive have studied - as she disappeared shortly after this. In addition mentions how police focussing in and around Dewsbury as police believe this is where they will discover what happened to her.

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The girl was last seen at the gates of West Moor Junior School in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, on Tuesday afternoon after returning from a swimming trip.

unquote

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1306410,00.html

Video shows her going in and coming out of swimming pool with a friend?

From article

Chief Superintendent Barry South said that police had not recovered any clothing or any items connected to Shannon.

"I need to stress at this moment in time that we have not recovered any clothing or any items that we believe are connected to Shannon," Mr South said.

Officers are still investigating a number of unconfirmed sightings, including one on Wednesday morning near her home which is described as "significant".

A police operation involving 250 officers and day-and-night searches by friends and relatives have failed to find her.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1306251,00.html

From Article:

Det Supt Andy Brennan said: "This is a nine-year-old girl who has never been missing previously.

"I would expect under normal circumstances we would have located her by now."

He said he believed she had a mobile phone but very little money and was not "streetwise in any way, shape or form".

Det Supt Brennan said police were following up a "significant" sighting of Shannon yesterday morning, the day after she failed to return home

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Video

Mum's Emotional Appeal For Daughter and how Shannon's older brother Tony 'has spent hours and hours in tears ' and how he misses her etc.

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Video

outside Shannon's school and attempted alleged abduction and girl was able to give police a description of the man, and reporter waiting to see if an e-fit is going to be made public , and crufication report which took place on Sunday night -a few hundred yards between Shannon's school and Shannon's home

police were called about 11.00 clock on Sunday night attempt to nail a man's hands to piece of wood......but still a guard on that home.

Police do not believed this is linked-but reporter says 'there is still a guard on that home ..and that is one of the routes Shannon would have taken on her way home regularly.' Brian I think they might be referring to Mrs Matthews ex-boyfriend's flat?

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http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1306933

7 days after ....Shows map Moorside Road and possible path she may have taken, ponds, sewers and drains and lealets at football match. and flat of ex sealed off shown from different angle - I think.

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http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1306619

Another video same re searching -mentions how extensive search has been going on at ex-boyfriend's flat by police still.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1306156,00.html

Video of Mother's Plea For Missing Schoolgirl-Shannon Matthews.

how Shannon does not like dark cold or anything else and appeals to her daughter to 'please come home we love you.'

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1306684,00.html

Video and article. Video shows interview with policeman and questions regarding how search and investigation work is being carried out etc.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1306911,00.html

Watch The Police Press Conference

Det. Supt. Andy Brennan from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, has made a statement expressing grave concerns for the safety of nine-year-old Shannon Matthews. He said he was not ruling out anything at this stage.

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http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1306530

Shows Shannon Matthews entering and leving Dewsbury Sports Centre Swimming Pool . I thought seeing her walking it might be easier for you to get a deeper connection telepathically etc with Shannon.

Hello Brian,

I have just recently noticed your website. And I have to say you really impressed me. I run a missing childrens site, and I wanted to ask you to do another reading on Reachelle Smith. We have just started sending flyers out around some areas that she may be. Any bit of help, would be greatly appreciated.

Michelle

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Thanks Michelle, will do do you have a link for the site?

Brian

I hope you be right with Shannon Matthews too and she is safe and fine, I think DD6477 release that case too.

Anne

3.6.2008

From last night and I hope it helps.

Brian

"1627 CM with friend high school, large round ears PS2 video game - will be located, brown hair, K, hazel eyes, grey sweat suit"

This could be a person thank knows Shannon's, but I not sure what his name is nor how he relates to her disappearance.

3.7.2008

Hi Brian,

Your latest Drawing for Shannon Matthews I beleive shows her mothers boyfriend.

You have also written CM. His name is Criag Meehan.

Please see the attached photo

( I realise you will probably be inudated with this so apologies if Im late in sending)

Do you have any feeling about him??

Tracy

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Hi Tracy, this is the first email I have received about this...not sure, his hair looks too short.

Would have to find out more details on him first.

Brian

I noticed Brian that the initial you gave was CM(Craig Meehan) is the mothers partner.
but somehow don`t think that he fits the discription as his hair is too short and his ears are to small.
Maybe he does know something about it after all!? It seems too much of a coincidence for the initial to be the same.

sylvia

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Hi Sylvia, the initials may match, but I agree...Craig has short hair, initials could be someone else, or not initials at all.

Brian

3.10.2008

Hi.

I was looking at your drawing and the pic of Shannons stepfather, and you say his hair is too short. Well, here is a pic where his hair is a bit longer.
And his ears do look big and round too...
Sorry, the link was missing in my last email.

I�ll try again:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=528840&in_page_id=1770

I put a pic in this email as well.

Alice.

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Hi Alice, I do see what you're talking about...it is possible that he got a haircut since Shannon went missing? Where was Craig the day she went missing? Was she abused physically or sexually by Craig and was going to tell the police about it?

I ask these questions because of of a dream last night, it's now posted in the case file. If Craig has an alibi for the time period she went missing, then I would say the man in the DD is not him.

Brian

"west high -- stop -- she was going to tell on him - she told her friend - not police -- he did not know - go to high school"

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Missing Shannon pleaded to uncle the night before she disappeared: 'Please let me stay'

Last updated at 22:54pm on 9th March 2008

The uncle of missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews said she visited him 24 hours before she disappeared and tearfully begged to stay the night, it was reported today.

Martin Matthews claimed the nine-year-old said she was too frightened to go home and pleaded with him: "Please can I stay here tonight - I can't go home because I'm in trouble."

She said she was told off by her stepfather Craig Meehan for swearing during a row.

Mr Matthews - who is Shannon's mother Karen's brother -said: "She sobbed all the way home because she was frightened.

"But I told her to go back. I regret it now. The next day she vanished."

He has been joined by the girl's grandparents in breaking their silence to claim Karen's children were physically abused by fishmonger Mr Meehan - allegations Craig strongly denies.

Mr Matthews, 42, told the Sunday Mirror: "She's been around here on many occasions saying the same thing: crying, saying she doesn't want to go home, saying 'I hate living there'.

"She's showed me bruises on her arms and said Craig had lashed out at her. He does lash out."

There have been no confirmed sightings of the schoolgirl since she left Westmoor Junior School in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, at 3.10pm on February 19, following a school swimming trip.

Mr Matthews went on: "She came here at tea time the day before. She is good friends with my kids, Tyler and Levi and often comes here to play.

"But this time it was different. She was upset and kept asking to stay the night. For some reason she didn't want to go home."

He told how sobbing Shannon pleaded: "Please let me stay here. I don't want to go home. I'm in trouble."

He continued: "She said she had an argument with Craig and swore at him. As a result she was grounded.

"I told her she really shouldn't stay and she should go home, especially if she was grounded and asked Tyler, my 10-year-old daughter, to walk her home.

"When Tyler got back she said Shannon had cried all the way.

"My two kids saw Shannon the next morning.

"They told me she said she'd had an argument with her mum and that Karen had screamed at her to get out of the house and not to come back.

"They have been questioned by the police and have told them everything."

Detectives, who have launched a massive hunt, fear she was abducted as she tried to make her way to her dad Leon Rose's home 10 miles away after telling pals she wanted to "run away".

Mother-of-seven Ms Matthews, 32, and Mr Meehan, 22, have made desperate television appeals for her to come home.

But Ms Matthew's parents June and Gordon Matthews claim Shannon shared an unhappy home life with her brothers and sisters.

They say they tried to persuade Karen to leave Craig in the weeks leading up to Shannon's disappearance amid a string of family bust-ups.

Mrs Matthews, 64 - who raised Shannon for the first few months from birth - said: "We don't believe Craig is any good for Karen and the kids and we want to put that on record.

"We have never seen him beat Shannon with our own eyes, but the kids have said it's happened.

"We're not saying this lightly, we know how serious these allegations are, but Karen needs to tell him to leave.

"We're doing this for her sake and the children's sake."

She said things had not been right ever since Karen had got together with Craig four years ago.

She added: "Karen was a great mum before she took Craig in. Those kids were loved and cared for. Since he arrived they've had a terrible life."

Mr Meehan last night said of the allegations: " I've been with Karen for four years now. I have never hit her or any of the children.

"We play about, as you do, but me and Karen have a brilliant relationship. I was working on the Monday night before she went missing so I don't know if she came home upset. "I love those kids. I know they're not mine but I treat them like they are.

"June is lying because she doesn't like me. She wants to tell Karen what she can and can't do.

"There is only me who works. I bring money into the home. I feed them. They get everything. My money goes on Karen, bills and the kids.

"No one in Shannon's family likes me. I don't know why. I don't care about these accusations.

"All I want is Shannon back. No one can accuse me. I know what's true and Karen knows what's true."

3.11.2008

Hi Brian.

Yes, he got a haircut after Shannon went missing. In both pictures he is wearing the same t-shirt with picture of Shannon...and the lenght of his hair is different.

Alice

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Thanks Alice.

Brian

3.13.2008

Hi Brian

I have just noticed on your website for missing Shannon Matthews.

CASE # 610 Shannon Matthews (2.21.2008)(STILL MISSING)

The school you currently are showing is not the correct one. That is the High School, Shannon was at Westmoor Junior School, Church Lane, Dewsbury WF13 4EW.
Picture below, also attached for clarity.
The latest information is below. Also URL's, in case links don't work.
A new website for Shannon Shannon Matthews Appeal
http://www.helpfindshannon.org.uk/fund.htm

Latest media information
Shannon Matthews 'abducted to hurt mother' - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/12/nshannon212.xml
Shannon Matthews 'abducted to hurt mother'

By Richard Savill

Last Updated: 12:25pm GMT 12/03/2008

The mother of the missing nine-year-old schoolgirl Shannon Matthews said she feared someone known to her family had abducted her daughter to hurt her.

Karen Matthews said she had not given up hope that her daughter, who was last seen leaving her school in Dewsbury, West Yorks, on Feb 19, was still alive.

Mrs Matthews, 32, insisted Shannon was not unhappy at home, and added: "She's got abducted. That's all I can say."

Asked if she thought the abductor was someone she knew, Mrs Matthews, a mother of seven, said: "It seems that way because there's no trace of her at all. There's no trace of her swimming costume, her towel or anything like that that she�s taken with her."
Mrs Matthews told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme she believed the reason someone had taken her daughter was to get at her.
Asked why someone would do it, Mrs Matthews replied: "Just to hurt me, really."
When pressed on who might be behind the abduction, she said: "No idea at all. All my friends and family have all been checked and there are no sightings of her things there at all."
Mrs Matthews and her boyfriend, Craig Meehan, denied rumours he had something to do with Shannon's disappearance, and claims by Mrs Matthews' parents he had hit the schoolgirl.
Asked about whether police had warned her to expect the worst, Mrs Matthews said: "We're not going to be doing that at the moment because we know she's out there somewhere."
Mr Meehan, a fishmonger, said it was wrong to make comparisons between his family and the case of missing Madeleine McCann.
He said: "It's two families from two different backgrounds which shouldn't really get compared - basically, a poor family and a rich family."
Mr Meehan, 22, added: "To me, they [the McCanns] are like celebrities in other people's eyes.
"They've got money, they know celebrities and all that, so they can afford to do everything they do, everything they can.
"We're trying to do what we can with the money we've got, with the resources we've got."
West Yorkshire police said they were "gravely concerned" for Shannon. The operation to find her is the biggest missing person's case the force has undertaken since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.
Thank you very much Brian.
Much appreciated
EJ
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Thank You EJ, and will post this correction ASAP.
Brian
3.13.2008
Hi Brian
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/SEARCH-FOR-SHANNON-39All-I.3830515.jp
SEARCH FOR SHANNON: 'All I want is my best friend back home safe'
Brian see this CCTV footage of Shannon her friend Megan is 'at the side of her,'as her friend's father says below:
Mr Aldridge, of Beckett Crescent, said: "Every day has been hard for Megan. She finds it hard to make friends, but she had two. One of them has gone to Australia and now Shannon has disappeared. It is unbelievable.
"Since it happened Megan has been having trouble sleeping and she is finding it hard at school. We are all giving her all the support we can."
The dad-of-two said he had been left chilled by some of the CCTV images he has seen of Shannon's last known movements
Those pictures of Shannon walking into Dewsbury Sports Centre, that is Megan at the side of her," he said. "They are that close, they were nearly always together.
"You can't help wonder what has happened to Shannon but to be honest I am trying
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Thank you...Brian
6.14.2008
Hi Brian,
Great news, the missing school girl has been found alive in a 39 year old mans flat hidden under the bed.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23454827-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
Warm wishes
G. X
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Thanks, wonderful news and I'm glad she was found safe.
Brian
Man arrested as missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is found alive under bed
Last updated at 16:22pm on 14.03.08
A man has been arrested after missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was found alive.
Police search officers discovered Shannon hidden in the base of a divan bed in a flat in Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr � about a mile from her home in Dewsbury � after breaking down the door of the property.
Police stormed the West Yorkshire address at 12.30pm and a 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of abduction at the address.
He is currently in custody at a West Yorkshire Police Station.
A local resident has told the Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper he saw Shannon being taken away shortly before 2pm this afternoon:
"I have just seen Shannon being taken out of a house in Batley Carr. She is safe and well."
Shannon's aunt Amanda Hyett said the schoolgirl's mother Karen Matthews had been driven away by police from the family home shortly before 2pm.
Police smashed their way into a flat in Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr and emerged carrying Shannon, neighbours said.
The young girl looked "quite calm" and officers confirmed that she was OK.

A local resident, who did not want to give her name, said: "One of my neighbours heard banging.
"When he went outside, police were breaking the door down - the man wouldn't come out so they broke in. Apparently they found her in bed. He said she was quite calm. Police carried her out.
"My neighbour asked, 'is it Shannon?" and the policeman just said, 'yes' and said she was OK."
The neighbour said rumours in the street suggested that the man who occupied the flat where Shannon was found lived alone and had children who had been taken into care.
She added: "We haven't seen him for two or three years. But apparently he's come back."
Christopher Heaps, who lives at number 4, said he had heard banging.
"About five minutes after that a policeman came out with a girl under his arms," he told Sky News.
"I just said to the policeman 'Is that Shannon?' and he said 'Yeah, this is Shannon'.
"I was very shocked... I couldn't believe it was on my own doorstep."
He added that a woman in the downstairs flat raised the alarm.
"She said that she heard a child's footsteps above and she knew that he hadn't got any children, I think she called the police and they took it from there then."
A local resident, who would not be named, said he saw the man and Shannon coming out of the house. "They dragged him out," he said. "I was hurling abuse at him. She was coming out at the same time."
Children returning from school to houses in Shannon's road were crying and hugging each other.
Callie Brown, eight, who is in Shannon's class at school, said: "We all had to go into the hall for an assembly. I was crying my eyes out.
"I'm going to give these 22 letters to her from her friends. I have missed her loads."
Earlier this week mother-of-seven Mrs Matthews, 32, said she believed someone she knows had snatched her daughter to hurt her.
But Mrs Matthews said she did not know who could have taken the shy youngster.
Mrs Matthews said: "She got abducted. That's all I can say."
Asked if she thought it was someone she knew who took her, she said: "It seems that way because there's no trace of her at all. There's no trace of her swimming costume, her towel or anything like that that she's taken with her."
And asked why someone close to her would do it, Mrs Matthews replied: "Just to hurt me, really."
Shannon's incredible reappearance comes after biggest manhunt in the country since the Yorkshire Ripper, some 30 years ago.
During the course of the investigation into her disappearance, police with dogs searched about 2,000 homes and commercial premises in the area, as well as parks, countryside, gardens and common land.
Ms Hyett, Shannon's next door neighbour as well as aunt, said: "We've all heard the news. It is great news. I've just heard the news like everyone else. I'm just trying to check if it's right.
"Karen (Shannon's mother) is not in. She's with the police."
Earlier this week, senior police had reiterated their "grave concern" over Shannon's fate.
This is the first confirmed sightings of the schoolgirl since she left Westmoor Junior School in Dewsbury on February 19 at 3.10pm, following a school swimming trip.
Shannon had written on her bedroom wall that she wanted to go and live with her father but police said the message was just part of an array of scribbles that the youngster had daubed on her wall.
Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann, said they were "delighted" that Shannon had been found alive and said the news gave them hope.
Their spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, said: "Kate and Gerry are aware that she has been found alive. They feel that is excellent news, they are delighted that she is alive.
"They will not comment more until they know the full circumstances. Suffice to say that they will keep on looking until they have a happy resolution in Madeleine's case.
"It proves that children can go missing for whatever reason and still be found alive.
"Until Kate and Gerry know what has happened to Madeleine, there will always be hope for them that she too will be found alive.
"They will keep on looking as long as there is hope."
Conservative leader David Cameron said he was "delighted" to hear that Shannon had been found alive.
Speaking to reporters at his party's spring forum in Gateshead, Mr Cameron said: "I just feel huge relief on behalf of Shannon and her family.
"It is wonderful news that she's been found alive and, I hope, well.
"So often in these cases, you wait and you wait and then you hear tragic and awful news. All of us were thinking that was maybe what might happen and it is great that she is alive."
Shannon found alive and well!!
Yipee!!!!!!!

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/38063

Brian exactly as you said a red brick flat you are wondeful

sylvia
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Hi Sylvia, I'm glad she's safe...I need more details in order to see if my DD's were correct or not...however it really does not matter...she's safe :)
Brian
Just heard it on sky news Shannon Matthew has been found.:)
Just one mile from home.
Carolyn
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Hi, just heard...wonderful news.
Brian
Missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been found alive 24 days after she disappeared.
She was found around a mile away at the home of a man who is part of her extended family, say Sky sources.
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Thanks,
Brian
The House she was found in looks like your dd Awesome Brian!!! Take care Michelle
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Thanks, do you know if this house is on my map?
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Hi Sorry not to good at reading maps but have searched google earth and to me seems you were spot on, (red marker)
she was found at Bately Carr, Dewsbury, perhaps you can read map better than I Can, seems your prediction is correct
also Breaking news on Sky news Police Shannon Matthews made subject of Emergency police protection order.
police have not allowed mother to take her home.
will keep you updated.
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Hi, thanks I think I have the correct location marked now.
Brian
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080310/tuk-stepdad-denies-hitting-missing-shann-dba1618.html
Please look at this photo of Shannon's stepdad, His Hair is longer than the picture You were sent, he has obviously had a hair cut.   Re. your latest DD.
Also, Please have a look at the news report regarding Her Stepdad attached.
Thanks
Janet
x
P.S Brian, You are not Posting on Madeleine at the Moment, Do You know they have Started Searching the River Again Today ? .. Terrible news about Poor Little MariLuz R.I.P Sweet Angel ..
You have Not seen something Awfull have you ?
http://www.portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=25200
Hope You & Your family are well ...
Hi Brian
You are right, once again. Shannon has been found alive. Great news.
Isla - Scotland
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Hi Isla, I'm happy she was found safe, wish it was much sooner.
I think it's too early to call this one correct or not.
Brian
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Shannon Matthews Is Found
Updated:15:00, Friday March 14, 2008
Missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been found alive in the Dewsbury area of West Yorkshire 24 days after she disappeared.
Police smashed their way into a flat in Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr and emerged carrying Shannon, neighbours said.

Shannon Matthews
The young girl looked "quite calm" and officers confirmed she was OK.
A local resident, who did not want to give her name, said: "One of my neighbours heard banging.
"When he went outside, police were breaking the door down - the man wouldn't come out so they broke in. Apparently they found her in bed."
The neighbour believed the man who occupied the flat where Shannon was found lived alone and had children who had been taken into care.
She added: "We haven't seen him for two or three years. But apparently he's come back."
The woman who lives downstairs from him tipped off police after hearing footsteps, she said.
Earlier reports claimed the little girl was found hiding under a bed in a her grandparents' home.
Police had been searching for the nine-year-old for over three weeks.
The youngster has now been taken to a police station where she will be reunited with her mother.
Sky's north of England correspondent Gerard Tubb said: "I only know that she is alive but I wasn't given any impression that she was harmed.
"They've got her, they're very excited."
Shannon failed to return home from school after a swimming trip on February 19.

Mother Karen Matthews
The schoolgirl's aunt Amanda Hyett said Shannon's mother Karen Matthews had been driven away by police from the family home shortly before 2pm.
Former Scotland Yard detective, Mike Hames, told Sky police "always thought she was being kept away from home by someone that knows her".
"It is quite rare that you would find a child alive after all this time," he added.
Earlier this week, Ms Matthews, 32, a mother-of-seven from Dewsbury, West Yorks, said: "She got abducted. That's all I can say."
Asked if someone she knew was responsible, she said: "It seems that way because there's no trace of her at all.
"There's no trace of her swimming costume, her towel or anything like that that she's taken with her."
Shannon had been dressed in a black jumper with a school logo, a white cotton T-shirt, black trousers and a waist-length black coat with fur round the hood.
One national newspaper offered a �50,000 reward for information about her disappearance.
Police searched more than 200 homes and received over 300 calls from the public in their extensive investigation.
Friends and neighbours also distributed leaflets appealing for information about Shannon's whereabouts across West Yorkshire.
Hi Brian,

Good news - it looks like Shannon Matthews has been found alive. I hope we get the same result with Madeleine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm

Regards,
C
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Hi C, I hope so too...and as far as I know, Madeleine is still in the same location.
Brian
Hello Brian,
Just had to send you this - so glad you were right about her being alive...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm
Best wishes,
Lucy-Jane in France
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Thanks Lucy...I'm very happy she is safe.
Brian
Hi Brian
Finally, some good news, although unconfirmed, but looking more and more is is true.
Here are some links, she was approximately 4 miles from home in Batley.
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Looks like this report is confirmed...great news!
Brian
EJ
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Hot+Topics/Shannon+Matthews+-+Missing
Shannon: Schoolgirl found
Shannon has been missing since February 19
MISSING Dewsbury schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is belived to have been been found alive in West Yorkshire.
The nine-year-old disappeared three weeks ago after a school swimming lesson.

No details have emerged as yet as to the circumstances of today's events.

Hundreds of police and residents have been involved in the search for the schoolgirl in what became West Yorkshire Police's largest investigation since the Ripper Inquiry of the 1970s.

Officers and specialist teams from across the north of England have been involved.

Leading detectives had said they were gravely concerned for the youngster's safety because there had been no sightings of her since the afternoon she went missing.

Among the homes searched by officers with specialist dogs trained to identify blood and human remains were those of sex offenders living in the Dewsbury area.

As part of the investigation, a complete fingerprint and DNA profile of the nine-year-old had been compiled, using samples taken from her home. This was to have helped pinpoint detectives to where she had been, whether voluntarily or against her will.

The full article contains 182 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
Last Updated: 14 March 2008 2:25 PM

Brian,

Good news!!! Shannon was found alive and well.

Thank you for a great job you're doing.
I am looking forward to hearing good mews about Maddeleine McCann. I hope she will be found alive soon.

Marina
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Hi, me too...wonderful news for Shannon...and I hope UK authorities do get a chance to search for Madeleine in PDL.
Brian..... Not sure if you have seen this yet???? Such wonderful news!!May little Madeleine PLEASE be found safe and sound SOON as well!!!!! Have a nice weekend.....Susanne
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23454827-details/Man+arrested+after+missing+schoolgirl+Shannon+Matthews+is+found+alive+under+bed/article.do
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Hi, found out about 30 minutes ago...great news...and hope you have a nice weekend as well :)
Brian

UPDATE: If the DD's are correct, Shannon might have something very important she needs to talk about...I would be caution to taking her home to her family right away.
I think she should get a chance to talk to professionals that deal with cases like hers.
Brian
Short note, u might already have, shannon matthews has been found alive, in a flat one mile from her house hidden in a canopy bed.
  Case 347 madeleine Mccann
Also let you know in spanish news they are saying they have found a white bag with bones in it, in the lake they were searching
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Hi, thanks will post both news reports.
Brian
Your dream was right, Shannon M is found near of her home.
Building is brickhouse with many apartments

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=533944&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Anne

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Hi Anne, great news...and I'm glad she is safe.
Brian
Hi Brian,
Just a quick email, to let you know, if you didn't know already that Shannon Matthews has been found safe and well this afternoon. Link to sky news attached.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/14/1?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
No doubt many of your regulars will have already have notified you. But when we have so much bad news going on around the world it is good to share some good news for a change. There is hope for all missing persons around the world after all.
Take Care.
Sharon, UK.
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Hi Sharon, thanks got about 400 emails so far, but with news like this...I welcome an overloaded mailbox :)
Brian
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Hi, thanks...can you check this, as it looks like to me she was found in my map.
Brian
Hi Brian
Fantastic Fabulous News - I cannot type for joy! You were right - check out your DD with house and she was near and with someone she knew etc.
Shannon Matthews has been found read below from Sky News:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080314/tuk-missing-shannon-found-alive-45dbed5.html
Regards Alex
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Hi Alex, thanks and I'm glad she's safe.
Brian
Hi Brian,
FANTASTIC NEWS!
Breaking news on SKY - Shannon Matthews has been found alive and well in a house only a mile away from her home 24 days after she went missing! A 39 year old man has been arrested at the property. Apparently police doing routine searches in the area knocked at the door but got no reply, when they talked to neighbours they said that nobody had come out of the house so they must be still inside. The police then decided to break down the door and upon doing so and searching the house they found Shannon and the 39 year old man hidden in drawers beneath a divan bed. Shannon is being cared for by West Yorkshire police and has not yet been re-united with her mum. Apparently the man arrested is related in some way to Craig Meehan, the stepfather.
Check out www.sky.com/news
Lets hope this outcome becomes the same for the McCanns, and Madeleine is found well and SOON!
Thank you for your very special gifts, God Bless.
Chrissie
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Hi Chrissie, yes me too.
Brian
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=115139493897297250515.0004486688542061562bb&ie=UTF8&ll=53.689287,-1.631985&spn=0.050216,0.135956&z=13

3,448 feet off!!! youre losing your touch :)
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Hi, if it was possible to see 'brick homes' from this map maybe I could have done better...anyway, she is found and that's all that matters.
Brian
Hi Brian,
great news.
Will be interesting to see if details of this guy matches your DD. No details of him released as yet.
regards
DD
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1309334,00.html
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Hi, me too...this news in not on US tv, I checked CNN and FOX and nothing...went to Sky News and its front page :)
Brian
Hiya Brian,
    This is the latest story about Shannon, am so pleased that she has been found. You had a number 6 in one of the DD's about Shannon, and she was found at number 26. Wish all stories of missing kids, could have such an outcome as this.... Best wishes to you and the familly, keep up the great work
Cy uk
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Thanks, and will do.
Brian
March 15, 2008
Shannon Matthews found hiding under bed with her stepfather�s uncle
After disappearing 24 days ago, Shannon Matthews was found in the base of a bed in the home of Paul Drake
Shannon Matthews, whose disappearance sparked one of the biggest police searches in recent years
Image :1 of 5
Russell Jenkins
When officers arrived at No 26 Lidgate Gardens shortly before midday yesterday, it was initially just another door-knock in their painstaking search for Shannon Matthews.
The resident � the uncle of Shannon�s stepfather, and part of the door-to-door trawl of anyone who might be known to the girl � appeared not to be at home.
They tried a downstairs flat, where a conversation with a neighbour provided the sudden breakthrough for which the Matthews family, their friends and the police force had been praying for three weeks.
Though Paul Drake, the resident, lived alone in the property in Batley Carr, the sound of a child�s footsteps had been heard lately.
Officers were told that Mr Drake � also known as Mick Donovan � never left the premises without his car, about which he was obsessive. They were led to believe that Mr Drake was still in the flat because his prized silver Peugot was parked in the street outside.
The two police officers decided they were dealing with more than a routine visit. Keeping an observation on the property, the officers called for an emergency back-up team. A battering ram was used to break down the door and officers burst into the house.
They immediately searched from room to room, and after hearing noises, uncovered Shannon, hidden within the base of a double divan bed. Alongside Shannon, in the other half of the cavity, was Mr Drake. The 24-day search was over.
Neighbours described how Shannon appeared calm as she was carried from the scene, with no apparent sign of injury. Then Paul Drake emerged, dragged out in handcuffs to awaiting back-up officers and a volley of pent-up anger from local residents.
As word got out into the community, Karen Matthews, Shannon�s mother, was told of her daughter�s safe recovery by a neighbour, Peter Brown, a short time after.
�She just froze. She was in shock. Then her reaction was crying,� said Mr Brown. �After that, she had a phone call from the police liaison officer. They came to pick her up. Karen and Craig [Shannon's stepfather] both left the house together. We are going to have a party tonight.�
Shannon disappeared 24 days ago after returning to Westmoor Primary School in Dewsbury from a swimming trip. It led to one of the largest investigations mounted by the West Yorkshire force, involving up to 300 detectives, more than a tenth of the force�s strength.
Amanda Hyett, Shannon�s aunt, sobbed as she said: �I am so pleased she has been found. We just need her home now. I just want to say thank you to everyone that helped.�
Ms Hyett was with Shannon�s mother and stepfather when the news came through that the girl had been found safe and well. �We were all howling on the stairs with complete joy,� she said.
It is understood that Mr Drake � said to be the brother of Craig Meehan�s mother, Alice Meehan � has two daughters aged 10 and 12 who were taken into care some years ago. Alice Meehan, 49, last night revealed that he was arrested in 2004 when he took his oldest daughter from school. She said Mr Drake lost his own children three years ago after a split from his wife.
�I can�t believe he had Shannon, my own brother, it feels like he has brought shame on our family. I�m sure there�s no way he would have hurt her. He was missing his kids.�
She said Mr Drake had custody of his children but was eventually deemed unfit and no longer saw them: �This killed him.�
As news spread of the nine-year-old�s safe return, people emerged on to the streets of Dewsbury and Batley to celebrate, with lager and wine.
Mandy Dixon, 37, described how police descended on Lidgate Gardens. Officers battered their way through the blue door opening on to stairs up to the maisonette flat. A plainclothes officer brought Shannon out first.
She said: �A neighbour shouted out, �Is that Shannon?� and they said, �Yes, it is�. I could not see Shannon�s face, she was covered up. She was clinging to the officer for dear life.�
Another neighbour, David Hughes, 46, a former soldier, whose flat overlooks the suspect�s home, said: �They busted in the door at about 1.30pm and later they dragged him out. He was cuffed to two police officers. They ordered him to obey their commands but he refused, curling his legs underneath him as if he did not want to go. He was crying and whingeing.
�Shannon came out with two police officers. She looked OK. I would say quite calm. She was dressed in a dark blue jacket and trousers.
�I could see it was Shannon. This episode has left us all so incredibly happy that she is going home alive and well.�
Residents on the estate expressed astonishment that they could have been living so close to the missing girl for so long. One said: �It is so shocking that she could have been such a short distance away for the last three weeks without us knowing. There has been no sight or sound of this little girl.�
People in the estate, which is mixed between Asian and white working class, spoke of a loner who hardly ever emerged from the flat.
Ashraf Dadhiwak, a newsagent, 51, said: �I have not seen him for a year. He is a loner who used to come into the shop with his two daughters. He did not look as if he was all there, if you know what I mean.He looked ill to me, certainly not healthy, and had the appearance of someone frightened of something.�
A resident, who did not want to be named, said the daughters were taken into carewhen his wife was unwell and he couldn�t look after them. �I thought he had left the area but maybe he came back recently. A neighbour came to tell me there were police in the street and said the woman in the flat downstairs had called the police. Apparently she heard a child�s footsteps and knew he did not have any children so she was suspicious.�
Last night a large area of the estate surrounded by a grassy knoll was cordoned off by scenes-of-crime tape.
A yellow telephone directory lay unrecovered on the porch and shabby curtains in the upstairs windows had a pattern with the words �biker boy�.
Inside, forensic science experts began their painstaking work which will continue this morning.
A statement from West Yorkshire Police said: �As part of ongoing