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| Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare jailed for Becky Watts killing | |
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| Nathan Matthews has been jailed for a minimum of 33 years for murdering his stepsister Becky Watts, 16, in a sexually-motivated kidnap plot. | |
| His girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, has been sentenced to 17 years for manslaughter. | |
| At Bristol Crown Court, Judge Mr Justice Dingemans said he was sure on the evidence "that the planned kidnap of Becky was for a sexual purpose". | |
| Matthews suffocated his stepsister at her home in Bristol on 19 February. | |
| The judge appeared emotional as he paid tribute to Becky's family at the end of sentencing. | |
| Judge Dingemans told Hoare she had been convicted of manslaughter because she had participated in a kidnap where any "sober and reasonable person" would have known some harm would come to Becky. | |
| He said the case was of a "particularly high" seriousness "because of the planning of the abduction for a sexual purpose, the taking of the implements described and a weapon (albeit non lethal) and the murder of Becky". | |
| He added: "In my judgment the behaviour of both Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare in feigning concern with the family, as the family desperately searched for Becky, is a further, and serious, aggravating feature. | |
| "In my judgement the appropriate sentence for Mr Matthews is a mandatory life sentence, with a minimum term of 33 years. This means that Mr Matthews, as a 28-year-old man, will be 61 before he might be considered for release, and the reality is that he might never be released." | |
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