Shannon's stepfather arrested
02/04/2008 12:15  - (SA)  

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London - Police investigating the kidnapping of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews said on Wednesday they had arrested a 22-year-old man, identified in media reports as her stepfather Craig Meehan.

West Yorkshire Police said they had arrested the man on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children after examining a number of computers.

Meehan has lived with Shannon's 32-year-old mother Karen for around five years, media reports said.

Nine-year-old Shannon was found hidden in the base of a bed at a house a mile from her family home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire last month, 24 days after she went missing.

Police have charged Meehan's uncle, 39-year-old Michael Donovan, with Shannon's abduction and imprisonment.

Shannon has not returned home since her rescue, and remains in the care of local social services.

Her disappearance in February prompted one of the biggest police inquiries in the area since the Yorkshire Ripper investigation of the 1970s.

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