Becky Watts murder trial: Stepbrother and girlfriend ‘chopped up teenager with

Schoolgirl Becky Watts was suffocated in her bedroom in a “sexually motivated” murder before her body was cut into pieces with a power saw, a jury has heard.

Becky’s stepbrother, Nathan Matthews, 28, and Shauna Hoare, 21, are accused of conspiring to kidnap, and murdering her. They have deny the charges. He then suffocated the teen and dismembered her body with a power saw, authorities said.

The following day, Matthews bought two bottles of drain cleaner from a superstore before driving to B&Q, where he purchased a circular power saw, gloves, face masks and goggles.

“Becky’s death was the result of a plan by Matthews and Hoare to kidnap her and it seems that items may have been taken to Becky’s home by them to carry out that plan”.

Miss Hoare denies murder, conspiracy to kidnap, perverting the course of justice, preventing a lawful burial and possessing a prohibited weapon, namely two stun guns.

Shauna Hoare denies all the five charges she faces.

Karl Demetrius, his twin brother Donovan, both 29, Karl’s girlfriend Jaydene Parsons and work colleague James Ireland, both 23, are charged with assisting an offender.

Body parts were found in a garden shed several days after she disappeared from her family home in Crown Hill, Bristol.

Becky had been treated for anorexia and anxiety and told a doctor she was “frightened” and “didn’t like” Matthews.

The pair shared an “unnatural interest in attractive teenage females”, a jury at Bristol Crown Court has heard.

Members of Becky’s family, who sat in the public gallery of court room two, left the court in tears during parts of the proceedings.

The court heard that Becky vanished from her home, where she lived with her father, Darren Galsworthy, and stepmother Anjie, in Crown Hill, Bristol, on February 19.

Matthews and Hoare, who had been in a relationship for six years, arranged for a key to be left outside the property so they could let themselves in.

Karl Demetrius, 29, and his girlfriend Jaydene Parsons, 23 have pleaded guilty to assisting an offender, but they maintain they “did not know or believe” that bags they helped move contained Becky’s body.

That evening, the couple ordered a Chinese meal from a takeaway where Matthews worked and later attempted to call a pizza company, as well as watching television.

Becky, 16, went missing from her Crown Hill home in St George in February this year.

Mr Mousley said the couple spent three days completing “the lengthy process of cutting up and carefully packaging each individual parcel” and cleaning the aftermath.

They were arrested on suspicion of kidnap and subsequently murder after Matthews’ fingerprints were found on Becky’s blood on door frames there.

“Nathan Matthew finally admitted the killing, stating that he had tried to kidnap and imprison Rebecca Watts and said that he had strangled her”, Mr Mousley said.

Her body parts were discovered on 2 March. Her body was found 11 days later.

Becky’s body parts were found in bags and suitcases – a few wrapped in cling film – in a shed along with a circular saw, duct tape and cleaning liquids, the court heard.

A post mortem examination found Becky was dismembered across her neck and above her knees, elbows and wrists.

The jury was told further searches of phones and computers connected to Matthews and Hoare revealed evidence appearing to relate to Becky’s death. He said in a series of messages were exchanged where they had discussed kidnapping a teenage girl.