KAREN Matthews - the woman who faked her own daughter’s kidnapping in order to profit from it - has broken her ten-year silence to moan about the public’s treatment of her.

Matthews - dubbed “Britain’s Worst Mother” - reportedly insists she had nothing to do with the crime she was jailed for.

Little Shannon disappeared from her home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, in February 2008, sparking one of the biggest police investigations ever seen in the UK.

The nine-year-old was discovered 24 days later at the home of her stepfather’s uncle, Michael Donovan, less than a mile away.

She had been imprisoned, tied-up and drugged as part of a plan he and Matthews - then 32 - hatched to claim a £50,000 reward offered by a national newspaper.

Both adults were jailed for eight years but were released after serving half their sentence, while her seven children were taken into care.

Now, breaking her silence after a decade, the disgraced 43-year-old mother insisted she is “not Britain’s worst mum.”

She said: “I didn’t kill anybody. Baby P’s mum and Maxine Carr don’t get the abuse I do.”

“None of it’s true. I’m on the edge. It makes me want to kill myself, but I’d never do that. I’m scared I’ll die lonely and alone,” she told The Mirror.