Residents on the estate where Karen Matthews staged the 'kidnapping' of her daughter Shannon are reportedly charging £15 for a tour of the neighbourhood.

Interest in the 2008 incident, which saw Matthews drug her then nine-year-old child and stow her away in the base of a divan bed in a bid to claim the reward money, has peaked since the BBC aired a two-part drama based on the event.

Now, it has been claimed that locals on the Moorside estate in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, are cashing in on the renewed interest and are charging £15-a-tour to see the Matthews family home and the flat of Michael Donovan, where Shannon was hidden.

Shannon (left) disappeared from the Moorside estate in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, in 2008. Her mother, Karen Matthews (right), and her boyfriend were later jailed for her kidnap

The block of flats where Shannon was found alive - the tour makes a stop outside the building

Donovan and Matthews were each jailed for eight years following the fake abduction bid but served just half of that sentence.

An unnamed resident told The Sun: 'I'll show you all the sights. Give us £15 and I'll take you round and show you where everyone lives.'

'Me and me mate have taken a couple of people round. They said they'd come over from Leeds to see the street and that.

'There's been quite a few people driving up and down so we thought we'd stop folk and offer our services.'

Shannon was missing for more than three weeks until it emerged that her mother Karen Matthews (left at the time) had staged the kidnap with her boyfriend Michael Donovan (right) in order to raise money from publicity

The tour also includes a quick visit past the police station where Matthews was charged with the abduction of her daughter.

Last night it emerged MPs have called for Ofcom to investigate the BBC over its ‘voyeuristic’ drama about Shannon, after it was revealed the corporation did not talk to her before turning her kidnap into television entertainment.

Shannon is now 18 and lives under a different name.

Her grandparents led the outcry, saying they thought it was a ‘disgrace’ to dramatise the faked kidnap.

June and Gordon Matthews said: ‘Shannon deserves to live her life in peace. She deserves to be left alone. What happened to her was a trauma, a tragedy. It is sick and disgusting that it is being turned into a TV show.’

Labour MP Louise Haigh said it was ‘shocking’, adding: ‘It sounds like a clear breach of Ofcom guidance. In a case as high-profile and traumatic as this, it should have been handled with the utmost sensitivity.’