Shannon emerged from a Batley Carr flat at 12.30pm today (Friday) looking clean, healthy and well-dressed.

Police found her hidden inside a divan bed in a first floor flat at Lidgate Gardens.

It is believed a woman who lived in the flat underneath had raised the alarm after hearing the noise of someone stamping their feet through the ceiling.

Neighbour and local mother Mandy Dixon, also of Lidgate Gardens, said: "We heard them smash a window, we thought it was a drug raid at first. They put the window through. Two coppers came down and said, 'We've got her'."

She said a suited CID officer came down with Shannon in his arms, hiding her face in his shoulder and possibly wearing a pyjama top.

A special edition of thre Reporter with all the coverage of Shannon's amazing recovery will be in major supermarkets from around 7pm tonight (Friday). They will be Sainsburys and Asda in Dewsbury, Tesco in Batley and Morrisons in Heckmondwike. Copies will also be in selected newsagents from tomorrow (Saturday).