LATEST: Karen Matthews 'set to be released'

Karen Matthews is expected to be released from Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire today after serving four years for the kidnap of her own daughter. It's believed she'll start a new life, supervised by the probation service, away from Dewsbury Moor in West Yorkshire where she lived.

Matthews fooled everyone in the community, including close friends, when she claimed her nine-year-old daughter Shannon had been kidnapped, sparking a costly police hunt. Shannon was later found drugged, but otherwise unharmed, at a house a short distance away.