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A neighbour of abducted schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been jailed for a year after admitting benefit fraud amounting to more than £35,000.A neighbour of abducted schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been jailed for a year after admitting benefit fraud amounting to more than £35,000.
Amanda Hyett, 27, illegally claimed £35,885 in income support and housing benefit, Leeds Crown Court was told.Amanda Hyett, 27, illegally claimed £35,885 in income support and housing benefit, Leeds Crown Court was told.
Hyett had been on bail since pleading guilty at a hearing in October.Hyett had been on bail since pleading guilty at a hearing in October.
Shannon, now 11, was kidnapped and imprisoned for 24 days by her mother Karen and Hyett's uncle Michael Donovan in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, last year. Shannon, now 11, was kidnapped and imprisoned by her mother Karen and Hyett's uncle, Michael Donovan, in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, last year.
Hyett helped the search for Shannon, who she referred to as her niece. Hyett, the sister of Karen Matthews's ex-partner, Craig Meehan, referred to herself as the girl's aunt.
Prominent figure
At a hearing in October she admitted four counts of making a false statement or representation to obtain benefits, one count of retaining a wrongful credit, and one count of failure to notify a change of circumstances.
Shannon Matthews went missing in February 2008.
Twenty-four days passed before she was found being held at Donovan's flat in Batley Carr, West Yorkshire.
Her mother's trial was told she had hoped to claim reward money.
Hyett, of King Edward Street, Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury, was a prominent figure in the hunt for Shannon.
She took part in candlelit vigils for the missing girl, gave television interviews and was a frequent visitor to the Matthews home next door to her own former property on Moorside Road, in Dewsbury Moor.