FRIGHT WEDDING
Karen Matthews shelves summer wedding to paedo handyman lover due to coronavirus but plans ‘BIGGER do’ next year
by Sun reporter
KAREN Matthews has shelved her summer wedding plans to her handyman lover due to coronavirus - but is planning an even "bigger do" next year, it was claimed today.
She had hoped to walk down the aisle with convicted sex offender Paul Saunders later this year at her local register office.
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But the lovebirds have postponed their nuptials until 2021.
A pal said: “She’s said they may as well wait now because everywhere is shut due to the virus and when places do get back to normal they’ll be a big scramble from people wanting to get wed.
“So she says they’ll wait until next year and it will give them more time to save up their cash for a bigger do.”
Besotted Matthews wants to walk down the aisle in a black dress with George Michael’s Father Figure playing in the background.
She says the love number was on in paedo lover Paul Saunders’s van the first time her took her on a date and is now their song.
The lyrics talk about being looked after with one verse reading: “That's all I wanted, something special, something sacred in your eyes, for just one moment to be bold and naked at your side.”
Matthews, 44, and Saunders, 57, became engaged at Christmas after he came to fix a leak at her flat.
Her pal told us: “She wants a black dress and has been researching them on the internet. She says it will be her first time as a bride and wants to stand out. Well, she’ll certainly do that.
“Her and Paul Saunders special song is by George Michael and its Father Figure which is the song she told us she wants to get married to as he played it to her in his van the first time they went out together.
Matthews has horrified pals by moving Saunders into her one-bedroom flat in the south of England – with the taxpayer picking up the £650-a-month rent for the fiends.
'BRITAIN'S WORST MUM'
She has told pals that she’s in love with Saunders, who is a “changed man”.
Our source continued: “She says she won’t get anyone else and that Saunders looks after her. But how can she have him near her? It’s disgusting. They’ll struggle to wed because no one will want to witness them two getting hitched.”
Matthews was jailed for eight years for kidnapping Shannon in a bid to grab £50,000 in reward cash.
The wicked mum allowed police and the community in Dewsbury to search for Shannon, nine, for 24 days in 2008 when all the time she was being held in a flat owned by the uncle of her then lover.
She now lives almost 200 miles from the West Yorkshire town and under the terms of her release she is not allowed to set foot in the district.
But she still speaks to several friends regularly on the phone and via social media.
Handyman Saunders was jailed for five years for abusing a child.
In 2010 he admitted engaging in sexual activity with the teenager, making indecent images of her and two counts of sexual assault.
