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Article: Trial date set for man facing Shannon Matthews kidnap charges.

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Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
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March 26, 2008
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A 39-year-old man accused of the kidnap and false imprisonment of nine-year-old Shannon Matthews will go on trial later this year, a judge ruled today.

Michael Donovan appeared for a short hearing at Leeds Crown Court by video link.

Shannon disappeared on February 19 and was eventually discovered less than a mile from her home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, 24 days after she went missing.

She vanished after returning from a school swimming trip.

West Yorkshire Police mounted a huge investigation involving hundreds of officers and a team of 60 detectives in an attempt to find her.

Donovan was arrested on March 14 after the ...

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