Karen Matthews, 44, is 'planning her first trip outside Britain'
‘Britain’s worst mother’ Karen Matthews, 44, is ‘planning her first trip outside Britain to Benidorm with her 57-year-old paedophile fiancé’
- Karen Matthews,44, from Yorkshire, is reportedly planning first overseas holiday
- Set to go to Spain with her convicted child sex offender fiancé Paul Saunders
- The mother was dubbed Britain’s worst mother for kidnapping her own daughter
Karen Matthews is reportedly set to make her first overseas holiday to Spain with her convicted child sex offender fiancé.
The 44-year-old mother from Dewsbury, Yorkshire, who was dubbed ‘Britain’s worst mother’ after she staged her daughter’s kidnapping in 2008, is planning a holiday to Benidorm with her paedophile boyfriend Paul Saunders, 57.
The reported holiday comes just weeks after the mother was seen buying trainers, visiting a Pets at Home store and getting a fish and chips with Saunders who was jailed for abusing a 15-year-old girl.
Matthews first became interested in the Spanish destination after she becoming an avid viewer of the show Benidorm while serving her eight-year sentence at New Hall prison, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, and Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire.
Karen Matthews (right with Paul Saunders),44, from Yorkshire, is reportedly planning her first overseas holiday to Spain with her convicted child sex offender fiancé
Paul Saunders (pictured in mugshot), 57, was jailed for five years in 2010 for abusing a 15-year-old girl
A source told The Daily Record: ‘One of Karen’s favourite telly shows is Benidorm and she’s also a fan of A Place in the Sun and Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun on Channel 5.
‘She has never set foot outside the UK but now with the passport in the works she is dreaming of the Costas.
‘She hopes Paul can join her.’
Last month, Matthews was spotted leaving a B&M store and smoking inside a white transit van with convicted paedophile Saunders who was jailed for five years in 2010.
The pair, who met when Saunders went to carry out work at her residence, reportedly got engaged to each other just six weeks after they began their relationship.
The couple reportedly fell out after Matthews found out about his criminal past but have since reconciled.
A friend told The Sun at the time: ‘The recent behaviour has shocked me. She knows about his past, she doesn’t care.
Matthews and her then-partner Michael Donovan, now 51, were arrested in 2008 for staging Shannon’s kidnapping
‘She thinks he’s the victim in all of this. Now she’s planning on having a baby with him. God forbid if they ever have a child.’
In 2008, Matthews and her then-partner’s uncle Michael Donovan, now 51, were arrested for faking Shannon’s kidnapping in an effort to collect reward money.
Police later found the schoolgirl, who had been drugged, hidden inside a divan bed base at Donovan’s flat.
The pair were each jailed for eight years after being convicted of kidnapping, false imprisonment and perverting justice.
Matthews was freed in 2012 after doing just four years of her sentence.
Shannon (pictured) was later found hidden inside a divan bed base at Donovan’s flat
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