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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2015 12:02:14 GMT
Tribute from Becky Watts' mum, Tanya Watts. "My name is Tanya Watts. I am the mother of Becky Watts. I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who took my beautiful angel into their hearts. I have felt unable to say anything about Becky until now as the sense of loss and pain is overwhelming. But throughout this time I have been so touched and comforted by how people, many of whom are complete strangers, have taken the time to express their condolences. I feel Becky's presence all around me. I know that she is up in heaven with her Nanny and Grampy and other people that loved her. "We were able to see each other one last time: I know that she is at peace and can now have the dignity that she deserves. I am determined to focus on happy memories of Becky as a beautiful baby and gorgeous girl. I have been going through old photographs and she has a beaming smile in all of them. This is how she should be remembered - for her beauty inside and out." The grandmother of Becky Watts has thanked the people of Bristol for their compassion during her family's ordeal. The 16-year-old's body was discovered in Barton Hill following a massive police operation to find the schoolgirl, who had been missing for 11 days. Her gran, Pat Watts, made an emotion plea when Becky first disappeared and believed the teenager had just run away. But the 67-year-old from Henbury, along with Becky's mum Tanya and her brother Daniel, 20, were left heartbroken when parts of her body were found last week. The grandmother of Becky Watts has thanked the people of Bristol for their compassion during her family's ordeal. The 16-year-old's body was discovered in Barton Hill following a massive police operation to find the schoolgirl, who had been missing for 11 days. Her gran, Pat Watts, made an emotion plea when Becky first disappeared and believed the teenager had just run away. But the 67-year-old from Henbury, along with Becky's mum Tanya and her brother Daniel, 20, were left heartbroken when parts of her body were found last week.
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Post by Admin on Oct 13, 2015 13:46:11 GMT
It is a "ridiculous concept" that a woman on trial for murdering 16-year-old Becky Watts was in "blissful ignorance" of what her boyfriend had done, a court has heard. Nathan Matthews, 28, admits he killed his stepsister but denies hatching a plot with 21-year-old Shauna Hoare to murder the teenager, the Press Association reports. But prosecutors allege the pair embarked together on a sexually motivated plan to kidnap and murder Becky. William Mousley QC told the jury: "The prosecution submit that before Becky Watts was killed, there was a plan between Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare to kidnap her and when she was killed Shauna Hoare was actively involved in that killing, it being following on from the plan they had in which she had the necessary foresight to realise that serious injury would be caused to Becky Watts. "In respect of what happened in the house on February 19, the prosecution only have the account of the two adults in the house at the time and they are both defendants. "The prosecution say that what they were doing on that day and before that day strongly indicate two people working together." He insists that his girlfriend "was nothing to do with it" when Becky died at her home in Crown Hill, Bristol, on February 19 this year, Bristol Crown Court heard.
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Post by Admin on Oct 17, 2015 12:43:17 GMT
Jurors in the Becky Watts murder trial have seen where the teenager died, the bathroom where she was dismembered and the garden where her body parts were found. Becky, 16, was allegedly murdered in her bedroom at 18 Crown Hill, St George, Bristol by her stepbrother Nathan Matthews, 28, and his girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21. It is claimed Matthews and Hoare targeted Becky in a sexually motivated kidnap plot on February 19 this year, which culminated in her death, the Press Association reports. Her body was put in the boot of their Vauxhall Zafira before being driven on the night of the alleged murder to their home at 14 Cotton Mill Lane, Barton Hill and later dismembered in the bathroom. The teenager's remains were hidden in a friend's shed at nearby 9 Barton Court, later being discovered by police who had launched a major hunt for Becky. For today's visit the 12 jurors, along with the judge and barristers, were driven by coach from Bristol Crown Court to the three locations. The four defendants had exercised their right not to attend. The jury of two men and 10 women were split into three groups of four to be shown around Becky's home, Matthews and Hoare's house at Cotton Mill Lane and the garden of 9 Barton Court. The trial judge, Mr Justice Dingemans, and barristers were shown around the properties first by a police officer ahead of the jurors in their small groups.
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Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2015 13:47:55 GMT
A couple accused of murdering Becky Watts exchanged messages about sex with teenagers and kidnapping schoolgirls, a court has heard. Nathan Matthews, 28, is accused of killing Becky, 16, with his girlfriend, Shauna Hoare, 21, in a sexually motivated kidnap plot on February 19. The couple allegedly dismembered 5ft 1in Becky into eight parts, which were discovered in a garden shed 80 metres from their Bristol home on March 3. Bristol Crown Court heard Matthews and Hoare swapped text and Facebook messages concerning 16-year-old girls and kidnap in November and December last year. Shaun Groves, a crime intelligence analyst, told the jury he had been able to attribute certain messages to either Hoare or Matthews, while others were unclear.
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