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Becky Watts' killer jailed for minimum of 33 years

Nathan Matthews has been jailed for life with a minimum of 33 years for killing his stepsister Becky Watts.

Matthews, 28, was found guilty of murdering the 16-year-old in a sexually motivated plot before dismembering her body in the bath.

His girlfriend Shauna Hoare, who was found guilty of manslaughter, was jailed for 17 years.

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Matthews and Hoare to be sentenced on Friday

Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare will be sentenced on Friday from 10am after being convicted of the kidnap and killing of Matthews' teenage step-sister Becky Watts.

Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare have been convicted of kidnapping and killing Becky Watts

Matthews, aged 28, suffocated his step-sister while trying to kidnap her from her semi-detached home in Crown Hill, Bristol, on February 19 in what police believe was a sexually-motivated plot with his girlfriend Hoare, 21.

He dragged her body into the boot of his Vauxhall Zafira and drove it to the home he shared with Hoare, less than two miles away in Cotton Mill Lane.

Becky's body was found cut up into several pieces and tightly packaged in a shed nearby in Barton Court. A post mortem examination found she had been suffocated during a "violent struggle", suffering 15 stab wounds and a slash across her stomach which had been inflicted after death.

A jury took just three hours and 27 minutes to convict Matthews of murdering and plotting to kidnap Becky.

They acquitted Hoare of murder but convicted her of kidnap and manslaughter.

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