Shannon's Relatives Arrested, What Next?

Breaking News

Good job I have to be awake this morning; the sister and mother of Craig Meehan, the boyfriend of Shannon Matthews' mother, have been arrested by police investigating her abduction.

Amanda Hyett, 25, Karen Matthew’s sister, was arrested by West Yorkshire police on suspicion of assisting an offender, while Alice Meehan /Drake (Meehan was is her maiden name? but it seems the press are using it now but were using Drake at the beginning of this saga), 49, the sister of Michael Donovan, was being questioned on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

West Yorkshire police arrested the women on Friday morning but released them early Saturday morning. They have not officially been identified but this was the statement read out by a West Yorkshire Police representative:
"The two women aged 25 and 49 arrested earlier in connection with the kidnap of Shannon Matthews have both been granted police bail pending further inquiries.
"They are required to re-attend in May."

Michael Donovan, 39, the man charged with the kidnap and false imprisonment of Shannon, who disappeared on February 19.

Craig Meehan, the 22-year-old boyfriend of Karen Matthews, Shannon's mother, has been charged with possessing 140 indecent images of children of varying degrees. There’s some sort of level with this but surely if they are indecent they are indecent! But then again I have no idea what is going on with this story. The pictures are not believed to be of Shannon or her siblings.

Friends of Karen Matthews said they believed she had ended her relationship with Meehan and his belongings had been removed from the home they share as I said yesterday.


Safe

Karen Matthews, 32, is now staying with her remaining children, in a "safe house" after this latest disclosure and is said to be, “absolutely devastated," by a friend said yesterday. "She lost Shannon for 24 days and now this. She's in pieces and I don't think she can cope with much more."

What a mess.

Shannon's gran (or former stepdad's if the press are to be believed) mum and aunt have now been arrested, who next? Alice Meehan moved out of 'a flat' a week before Shannon and I'm yet to find where that was because at first I thought that flat was the one Shannon was found in!

The press almost pointed the finger at Alice Meehan and I don't know what is going on now. The situation is almost like a reality show being played out on our TV screens. The family did not choose this, it has just happened that way.

But what next?