'Sick' Shannon Matthews the Musical film slammed as 'cruel and sadistic' before release

The philharmonic diagnostic movie being enactment unneurotic by K*** and the Gang has already fetched wide condemnation, but radical person besides heaped praise connected the production

An upcoming philharmonic drama parodying the daze kidnapping of Shannon Matthews has been branded "cruel and sadistic" by members of the public

Performances of "Shannon Matthews : The Musical", by acheronian drama troupe K*** and the Gang, were sold retired for 4 weeks consecutive erstwhile the play debuted astatine Edinburgh Fringe Festival successful 2022. The occurrence has allowed the radical to travel backmost with a movie of the aforesaid sanction acceptable to premiere connected streaming services adjacent month.

The film, "Shannon Matthews: The Musical: The Movie" volition debut connected November 15 connected Prime Video, iTunes and Google Play, but has already fetched contention aft the shameless singer-songwriters teased a fewer of the songs. Tracks similar "Shannon Ain't Dead (She's nether maine bed)" and "You're A Paedophile" volition play during the feature.

The songs making airy of young Shannon's acquisition person earned swift condemnation from the nationalist and politicians, with 1 societal media user, Janet Ayre, decrying the accumulation arsenic a "sick joke". She wrote: "Why would anyone marque a philharmonic astir thing truthful horrendous? Further, wherefore would anyone successful their close minds spell to spot it?"

Ammar Anwar, the Tory councillor for Dewsbury West, the country from wherever Shannon was kidnapped aged 9 successful 2008, said the accumulation was "cruel and sadistic". Local Labour councillor Mussarat Pervaiz said the amusement trivialised the girl's experience, adding it was "disgusting".

Shannon Matthews' disappearance led to a large missing persons lawsuit successful February 2008, with a monolithic constabulary cognition enactment unneurotic to find the young miss compared to that launched by authorities to find Madeleine McCann. She was recovered live and good that March astatine a location successful Batley Carr belonging to then-39-year-old Michael Donovan, the uncle of Shannon's mother's boyfriend, Craig Meehan.

The 2 had planned to marque wealth disconnected her disappearance, and were jailed for 8 years aft it was recovered that they had planned to contiguous the miss astatine a constabulary presumption and assertion the reward currency aft immoderate time. Donovan died of crab successful infirmary successful the April of this year.

2008 astatine a Batley Carr location belonging to 39-year-old Michael Donovan. Donovan was the uncle of Craig Meehan, the fellow of the kidnapped girl's mother, Karen Matthews.

But the accumulation has already fetched rave reviews from the wide public, with immoderate who person seen the premiere saying it was the "funniest movie I person ever seen". Another commenter added the movie "really brought the communicative to life", and that the movie was "well acted and good produced".

And 1 excited instrumentality said: "Can’t hold to watercourse this. It volition beryllium perfectly hilarious." K*** and the Gang has marketed its probe arsenic a cardinal selling constituent for the film, saying they created the accumulation arsenic "a fictional practice based connected probe from erstwhile media publications".