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Complicated connections of a woman whose life went astray

Mother-of-seven Karen Matthews has been regularly portrayed as the epitome of a benefit-dependent, sink estate slob.

Mother-of-seven Karen Matthews has been regularly portrayed as the epitome of a benefit-dependent, sink estate slob.

Now 33, she was born and brought up in Dewsbury - one of Gordon and June Matthews' seven children.