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The woman accused of murdering Becky Watts told police she “felt sick” when she found out the body of the Bristol teenager had been in her home, a court has heard. A woman accused of murdering Becky Watts “felt sick” at learning her boyfriend had confessed to killing the missing teenager, a court heard.
Shauna Hoare said she was “appalled, disgusted, outrageously angry” at learning what her 28-year-old boyfriend, Nathan Matthews, had confessed to. Shauna Hoare said she was “appalled, disgusted, outrageously angry” at hearing Nathan Matthews had admitted killing his 16-year-old stepsister, dismembering her body in their bath and hiding the remains in a nearby garden shed.
Matthews had admitted to police that he killed his 16-year-old stepsister during a kidnap attempt and then dismembered her body in the bath at his home in Bristol. Hoare, 21, also said that Matthews, 28, had total control over her life and treated her like a child.
Asked about his confession, Hoare told officers: “I’m feeling sick to know she was there – appalled, disgusted, outrageously angry – and I feel a bit like I am going to wake up and this is not happening. During a series of interviews read to the jury at Bristol crown court – where Hoare and Matthews are on trial accused of Becky’s murder – she told police of her shock at discovering what her boyfriend had confessed to.
“I think it is more angry at the moment than anything – angry he has done it, that he did it, that he could do it when I was there in the house. And he acted so normal to me. I am really confused why he did it, what his plans were, how he thought he could get away with it and why. “I’m feeling sick to know she was there, appalled, disgusted, outrageously angry and I feel a bit like I am going to wake up and this is not happening,” Hoare said.
“I don’t understand. I can’t even look at him. I just wanted to kill him – bad choice of words. I felt sick looking at him, knowing what he did. I didn’t always like Becky but she was a nice enough girl, she was so young. I don’t understand why he did it. I don’t understand how he could have done it to us. “I think it is more angry at the moment than anything – angry he has done it, that he did it, that he could do it when I was there in the house.
“Obviously I heard the power saw at the time – I didn’t think he was doing anything like that with it. I just thought he was cutting pipe. Obviously finding out what I found, I assume he wasn’t cutting pipe but apart from that I have no knowledge of what has happened at all.” “And he acted so normal to me. I am really confused why he did it, what his plans were, how he thought he could get away with it and why.
Hoare was asked to explain a shopping trip with Matthews at a Wilko store in Bristol when he bought cleaning equipment, tape and rubble sacks. She said she believed he was going to tidy up their cluttered home. “I don’t understand. I can’t even look at him. I just wanted to kill him – bad choice of words. I felt sick looking at him knowing what he did.
“[It is] really, really bad timing,” she added. “I didn’t always like Becky but she was a nice enough girl, she was so young. I don’t understand why he did it. I don’t understand how he could have done it to us.”
“To my belief she had run away, I didn’t really think that someone had taken her so I didn’t think that this is a bit suspicious.” Hoare denied any knowledge of Matthews’s plan to kidnap Becky, killing her at the teenager’s home in Crown Hill, transporting her body in the boot of their car, moving her into their home at Cotton Mill Lane, taking part in the dismemberment and moving Becky’s body parts to the shed at 9 Barton Court.
Hoare added: “I think because he had the cover-up story that he is going to clear it up, we will have a nice tidy house. For the life of me I wanted it so badly. The things he was buying I had reasons to believe he was buying it for genuine reasons.” Hoare said that during their six years together Matthews controlled her life, including telling her what to eat and supervising her money.
During the police interview on 3 March – hours after Becky’s body parts had been discovered by police in a garden shed – Hoare denied any involvement. “I feel like a child. He was my dad almost. He controlled every aspect of my life. I don’t have any friends any more because of him.
She said she had no knowledge of Becky’s body being brought into her home and was not involved in moving the teenager’s remains to the shed 88 yards (80 metres) away. “When I told him I wanted to break up he kind of went psycho and started stabbing himself.
Hoare told police that on the night Becky’s remains were moved, she went straight to bed when she got home, having spent the evening with Matthews at her mother and stepfather’s home. “One way or another it was like I was going to be stuck like this forever. Never be able to go out, do anything.
She told the officers that two of Matthews’ friends had given them a lift home and she went to bed while her boyfriend went outside to chat with the friends. “I had a dream that one day he would meet someone else, fall in love and leave.”
Jurors at Bristol crown court heard that Hoare told police she did not hear Matthews come to bed but when she woke up the next morning he was lying next to her. Hoare said Matthews did not like his stepsister but had never spoken about “teaching her a lesson” for the way the teenager treated his mother, Anjie Galsworthy.
Hoare said she had no idea why Matthews would want to kill his stepsister. “Nathan obviously thought he had covered his tracks very well,” she said. “Obviously some of the questions asked made me think Nathan was involved but I didn’t think he did it.” “I didn’t ever think it annoyed him to an extreme extent,” she said. “To my knowledge she has never done anything to him or to Anjie or to anyone that to his twisted mind justified him wanting to scare her.”
Earlier, Hoare had told police she assumed Becky was killed in her bedroom at her home in St George, Bristol, because that was the only room she spent time in. But she said she did not see Matthews with blood on his hands or clothes in St George that day. She accused Matthews of being aggressive and said he often took things the wrong way.
Hoare said she did not go upstairs at Becky’s home that day and insisted she had no idea the teenager’s body was in the boot of the Vauxhall Zafira. “He has been aggressive and violent to me but I never thought he would get annoyed enough or lose his mind enough to do something to do that,” she said.
Matthews, of Warmley, South Gloucestershire, denies murder and conspiracy to kidnap. He admits killing Becky, perverting the course of justice, preventing the burial of a corpse and possessing a prohibited weapon. “With the intention to just scare her like that, it is so twisted and wrong. I don’t understand any of it like his logic, his theory.
Hoare, of Bristol, denies murder, conspiracy to kidnap, perverting the course of justice, preventing burial of a corpse and possessing a prohibited weapon. “How could he not think that if I found out or if anyone found out he wouldn’t be screwed? I couldn’t live in a house knowing that he had viciously killed someone.
The residents of the property where Becky was discovered, Karl Demetrius, 30, and his partner, Jaydene Parsons, 23, admit assisting an offender. “You can imagine the suffering she went through, how scared, and to imagine I was round there.
Donovan Demetrius – Karl’s twin brother – of Bristol, and James Ireland, 23, of Avonmouth – a work colleague of Karl’s – deny the same charge. “To know that if I had pushed him one day it could have been me. I just don’t understand any of it.
The trial continues. “There is still a part of me that does care for him but it is more anger and disgust that he has taken, that he has done that.
“The fact he has no concern for anyone whatsoever. He is sick, physically sick.”
Matthews, of Hazelbury Drive, Warmley, South Gloucestershire, denies murder and conspiracy to kidnap.
He admits killing Becky, perverting the course of justice, preventing the burial of a corpse and possessing a prohibited weapon.
Hoare, of Cotton Mill Lane, Bristol, denies murder, conspiracy to kidnap, perverting the course of justice, preventing burial of a corpse and possessing a prohibited weapon.
The residents of the Barton Court property, Karl Demetrius, 30, and his partner, Jaydene Parsons, 23, admit assisting an offender.
Karl’s twin brother, Donovan Demetrius, of Marsh Lane, Bristol, and James Ireland, 23, of Richmond Villas, Avonmouth – a colleague of Karl’s – deny the charge.
The trial was adjourned.