By Samantha Day • 22 February 2020 • 21:06
Evil mum Karen Matthews, who was jailed for faking her daughters abduction, is desperate for another child with her partner Paul Saunders, a convicted sex offender.
The couple are reported to have found a surrogate, and are willing to pay the unknown woman £1,000.
A friend of the couple has said: “they have asked an old friend of his if she would be a surrogate for them.
“And she said ‘Yes’.
Paul Saunders, 57, admitted to having sexual relations with a teenager in 2010, and spent five years in prison
His victim said after his crimes were uncovered: “I feel like dirt. He makes me sick. I want him to pay.
“He should die. I hate him. I just want to get on with my life knowing that he will never be around here ever again.”
Matthews was locked up in 2009 for faking the kidnap of her daughter Shannon. She served just half her sentence.
Matthews’ then-partner’s uncle Michael Donovan was also jailed in 2009 for staging Shannon’s abduction in a bid to pocket reward money.
He was arrested on suspicion of breaching his parole terms after their engagement was revealed, but was later released.
Donovan, now 51, kept the youngster drugged in his flat in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, for 24 days.
Police then raided it and found her hidden inside a divan bed base.
“Karen said it’s the only way of having a baby without people taking photos of her pregnant and it will be worth it to save her body.
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