The search for missing Becky Watts ended this week in a double heartbreak for the family as police unearthed her dismembered remains and charged a stepbrother with her killing.
The shy and pretty British teen mysteriously disappeared from her home on February 19th, and a
nationwide hunt for her produced the grisly and shocking revelation yesterday that she'd been kidnapped, murdered and dismembered by her very
own relative.
Twenty-six-year-old Nathan Matthews of Bristol UK, the stepbrother of Rebecca
Watts, was arrested and appeared in court today for the killing of his stepsister.
Matthews' girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, was also
arrested in connection with the case, charged for perverting justice and assisting an offender. The pair are said to have an infant daughter.
Apart from "consistently lying" to police, Hoare additionally made a number of deceitful facebook postings pleading for info from the public regarding Becky's whereabouts. As well she directly appealed to members of the community that the missing girl resided in to lend their aid in the desperate quest to find her.
One of Hoare's most galling facebook updates reads: "Police have turned my house upside down trying to find any clues. What fresh new hell will we go through today?"
It was posted just days before detectives discovered Watts had been slain and her severed body parts buried in an abandoned property close by.
"I just can't believe it," a neighborhood local said, upon learning of these startling developments, "I feel like I'm in an episode of Eastenders."
"I just can't believe it," a neighborhood local said, upon learning of these startling developments, "I feel like I'm in an episode of Eastenders."
In all, seven men and women in their 20s, including Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare, are now being
held and grilled by investigators in an effort to determine the extent of each suspect's
involvement and to decipher a motive, if any, for the bizarre and
brutal murder of a child.
In the meantime, funeral plans are underway for the late Becky Watts. She was only 16 when she horribly died.
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