Becky Watts: the verdict

After three and a half hours of deliberating the jury has returned its verdicts in the Becky Watts trial.

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Stepmother of Becky Watts will visit killer son in prison

The stepmother of Bristol teenager Becky Watts has told ITV News she will visit her killer son in prison.

16-year-old Becky was brutally murdered in a kidnap plot devised by her stepbrother Nathan Matthews and his girlfriend Shauna Hoare.

Anjie Galsworthy, who is Nathan Matthews's mother, says she still cares for him, despite what he did:

Watch the full interview with Darren Galsworthy and his wife Anjie on ITV's Good Morning Britain website.

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Becky Watts trial: Stepbrother & girlfriend guilty of killing

The stepbrother of Becky Watts and his girlfriend have been found guilty of killing her, in a sexually motivated kidnap plot.

Nathan Matthews was convicted of the 16-year-old's murder, and Shauna Hoare found guilty of her manslaughter.

Victoria Davies reports from Bristol Crown Court:

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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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Becky Watts CPS statement: Killers showed no remorse

Barry Hughes, Chief Crown Prosecutor of CPS South West, says Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare showed no remorse for the killing 'demonstrative of the callous way in which they took a young woman's life just as she was starting to plan her future':

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