Karen Matthews tries to sell image rights to her upcoming wedding
Britain’s worst mother Karen Matthews tries to raise ‘tens of thousands’ by letting glossy magazine photograph her wedding to paedophile fiance
- Karen Matthews is planning to marry convicted paedophile Paul Sanders
- Friends claim Matthews wants to sell the image rights of the ceremony
- She believes pictures of the event could be worth ‘tens of thousands of pounds’
A mother who staged the kidnap of her own daughter has been trying to broker a deal to sell the image rights of her upcoming wedding to a paedophile handyman.
Karen Matthews, 44, initially broke off her engagement to Paul Sanders after she discovered he had been ailed for abusing a vulnerable girl.
However, friends of Matthews claim the couple are back together and act like a pair of ‘loved up teenagers’.
Karen Matthews, left, is trying to broker a deal to sell image rights of her wedding to paedophile handyman Paul Sanders, right, who was jailed for abusing a vulnerable girl
Matthews is hoping to cash in on her upcoming nuptials by securing a deal for photographs with a glossy magazine.
However, her plan is unlikely to succeed as there are strict laws preventing convicted criminals from receiving cash from the media in order to benefit from their notoriety.
Matthews, who faked the kidnapping of her daughter Shannon, has shared details of her plan with friends.
One friend told The Sun: ‘Karen’s got pound signs in her eyes again. She reckons her pictures are worth tens of thousands of pounds and all she has to do is get a mate to sell the information and then she can pick up a load of cash.
Matthews, right, staged the kidnap of her daughter, Shannon, left, in order to cash in on a £50,000 reward for her safe return
‘She’s deluded because she doesn’t think that any media outlet will smell a rat if they get one of her mates on from Dewsbury. It’ll be obvious she’s going to benefit.’
The friend claims Matthews wants to move to the seaside on he south coast with Sanders.
Matthews was branded the ‘Britain’s vilest mother’ after she staged the kidnap of her daughter Shannon in 2008 in bid to cash in on the £50,000 reward.
The youngster was being held in a flat belonging to her then lover.
Matthews was jailed for eight years but was released after just four in 2012 – but was ordered to stay clear of her native Dewsbury.
The tragic case of Shannon Matthews and her feckless mother Karen
19 February 2008 Shannon Matthews is last seen outside her school in Dewsbury
20 February Police announce a massive search for the missing girl
21 February 200 volunteers join the local police search party
1 March Shannon’s mother Karen issues an emotional public appeal for the safe return on her daughter
12 March Reward offered for information leading to Shannon’s whereabouts is increased to £50,000
14 March Shannon is found inside the base of a divan base at the home of Michael Donovan in Batley Carr
Over the next few weeks Donovan, along with Shannon’s mother and stepfather, are all charged for separate offences
23 January 2009 Matthews and Donovan are sentenced to eight years each of kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice
April 2012: Matthews is released from prison after serving half her sentence. She was given a new taxpayer-funded identity and home. She is banned from seeing Shannon and her other children, who were put in care.
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