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| Becky Watts murder: Karl Demetrius and Jaydene Parsons jailed | Becky Watts murder: Karl Demetrius and Jaydene Parsons jailed |
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| The couple who lived at the address where murdered Bristol teenager Becky Watts' body was found have been jailed. | The couple who lived at the address where murdered Bristol teenager Becky Watts' body was found have been jailed. |
| Becky's dismembered body was found in a shed at the home of Karl Demetrius and Jaydene Parsons last March. | Becky's dismembered body was found in a shed at the home of Karl Demetrius and Jaydene Parsons last March. |
| They pleaded guilty to assisting an offender but insisted they did not know what was in bags stored in the shed. | They pleaded guilty to assisting an offender but insisted they did not know what was in bags stored in the shed. |
| Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare were jailed last year for killing Becky, Matthews' 16-year-old stepsister. | |
| At Bristol Crown Court, Demetrius, 30, was sentenced to two years and Parsons, 23, jailed for 16 months. | |
| Recorder of Bristol Judge Neil Ford QC, told the pair: "The offender you assisted was Nathan Matthews who has been convicted of the murder of Rebecca Watts and other related offences. | |
| "He not only killed Miss Watts but he dismembered her body in preparation for disposal of it. | |
| "You both knew Nathan Matthews but neither of you could have imagined that he was capable of the levels of depravity to which he descended." | |
| Body hidden | |
| Becky was killed during a sexually-motivated kidnapping, before her body was dismembered by Matthews. | |
| During last year's trial of Matthews and Hoare, the jury heard how Matthews suffocated the teenager at her home in the St George area of Bristol while trying to kidnap her. | |
| Becky's body was dismembered and hidden in a shed while a huge manhunt in Bristol attempted to track her down. | |
| Matthews was sentenced to life in prison and told he would serve at least 33 years. Hoare was jailed for 17 years. | |
| They are appealing against their convictions and sentences. |