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Pair who 'unwittingly' hid Becky Watts' body to be sentenced

Becky Watts, 16, was suffocated and stabbed and her body was dismembered. Credit: ITV News

A couple who "unwittingly" hid the remains of murder victim Becky Watts in their garden shed will be sentenced later today.

Becky, 16, was killed by her stepbrother Nathan Matthews after he hatched a sexually-motivated kidnap plot with his girlfriend Shauna Hoare.

Her body was dismembered with a circular saw and 'unwittingly' hidden by Karl Demetrius, 30, and his girlfriend Jaydene Parsons, 23, in their garden shed in exchange for a share of £10,000.

Bristol Crown Court heard Demetrius and Parsons believed the bags and storage box they had hidden contained drugs or stolen goods.

Police gained entry to the locked shed and discovered Becky's body - dismembered into eight parts - on March 3rd last year.

Parsons and Demetrius later admitted a charge of assisting an offender.

Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recorder of Bristol, will sentence the couple at Bristol Crown Court on Friday.