Becky Watts trial: Court hears grisly details of how teenager’s remains were found

BECKY Watts was just 16 when she was killed and her body cut up earlier this year. Overnight a court heard horrific details of her final moments. WARNING: Graphic.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

BECKY Watts was only 16 when she was killed, then cut up into eight pieces in February. Her head was found in a shopping bag.

Details of the heinous crime are being heard in the Bristol Crown Court, where members of Becky’s family wiped away tears as they listened to what happened to the girl. Some sat in stunned silence. Others couldn’t stay to listen to the grisly evidence.

The news was horrific. The teen had been sawn into eight separate pieces, after suffering 40 injuries before she died and at least 15 stab wounds to the abdomen after she stopped breathing.

Her accused murderer was one of their own, her stepbrother Nathan Matthews, 28. He has confessed to manslaughter and told police he chopped up her body, but he denies murder and conspiracy to kidnap and other charges.

Matthews’s girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, denies all five charges she faces including murder.

The court heard overnight from a forensic pathologist, Dr Deborah Cook, who carried out the post mortem on Becky’s body parts after they were discovered in a garden shed of a neighbour of Matthews.

Her head was found inside a suitcase wrapped in cling film, duct tape and blue plastic and in a grocery shopping bag.

It was covered in bruises, which Dr Cook said were consistent with suffocation and harming herself on carpet or furniture as she resisted, reports the Bristol Post.

Becky Watts was killed in February this year. Her stepbrother has been charged with her murder.

The accused Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare.

The disappearance of Becky on February 19, the hunt for her and the shocking arrest of Matthews has gripped the United Kingdom this year.

The killer’s frantic attempts to conceal her body parts was evident with the assortment of objects they used. The torso was found in a blue plastic storage box within a number of bags which included a plastic sack with the words: “It’s my birthday, Wacky Warehouse”.

Some of the injuries may have been caused by screwdriver, others by a kitchen knife.

Asked whether Becky could have been strangled, the pathologist said there was no evidence of that, citing the fact there was no blood spots found in her eyes.

The jury was shown computer generated reconstructions of injuries to Becky’s head, arms, legs and torso, reported the BBC.

The court heard that eventually Matthews admitted killing Becky but claimed he had dreamt up the idea of going to her home armed with a stun gun and wearing a mask to teach her a lesson for the way she treated his mother, which he said was “rude”. He claims he strangled her after his mask slipped.

The house where Becky Watts was killed was filthy. Picture: Avon and Somerset Police

But the bath was spotless. Picture: Avon and Somerset Police

The manner of death may be crucial to the Crown case because suffocation requires more force.

The Crown alleges Matthews and Hoare were motivated by a shared sexual fascination with young girls and the idea of kidnap.

Becky was allegedly cut up in the rubbish-filled home of Matthews where there was hardly any space to walk in the lounge because it was piled high with toys, games, pictures and household items, reported The Mirror.

Items were piled on top of a cooker and a microwave which stand beside a toilet in the bathroom which was immaculate.

The white bath — where police alleged Becky was cut up — was clear, the jury heard.

Detective Simon Wallis said: “It was cleaner than the rest of the house. The bathroom window was open. The actual bath itself was clear.”

The trial continues.

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