Stepbrother Charged With Murder Of Becky Watts

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The stepbrother of Bristol teen Becky Watts has been charged with her murder, Avon and Somerset Police have said.

Nathan Matthews, 28, has been identified as the teenager's stepbrother by family members.

His girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, who goes by the name Shauna Phillips on social media, has been charged with intending to pervert the course of justice.

Both are due before Bristol Magistrates' Court on Thursday morning.

Four men and one woman, who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, remain in police custody. Officers were granted a further 24 hours to question the five by a magistrate earlier on Wednesday.

Becky disappeared from her home in Crown Hill, in the St George area of Bristol, on 19 February.

Body parts were found at a house in the Barton Hill area of the city on Tuesday.

Formal identification has not yet been completed.

Mr Matthews and Ms Hoare were arrested on suspicion of Becky's kidnap on Saturday and later re-arrested on suspicion of murder.

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Detectives had until this afternoon to charge or release them.

Ms Phillips was taken to hospital overnight after feeling unwell in custody, police said.

She was seen by a doctor and taken back into custody a short while later.

Meanwhile Becky's family members have been laying tributes for the teenager at her home.

In an earlier statement her family said they were "at an utter loss to understand why anyone would want to hurt our beautiful Becky in such a brutal way".

Her uncle Joe Galsworthy posted on Facebook: "U were a shining light in this dark world and as I lay in bed tonight I'll gaze and the stars and I kno the brightest one I see will be you smiling back at me, u are at peace now my beautiful beautiful niece.

"Sleep tight and never forget a family's love is immovable, an uncle's love is inseparable, and for shy 16-year-old girl who was afraid to meet new people u single handedly brought a city together."

In a post about Becky's father, her aunt Sarah Broom said: "He is completely and utterly broken and there is nothing in this world of comfort to him - how does a parent ever recover from this? How can a family?

"So with tears rolling down my face, Becky, you beautiful beautiful soul, you have touched so many hearts and changed so many lives.

"Your shy inverted nature has outshone and touched a whole city and beyond.

"You do not leave behind a legacy of anything other than pure heartfelt love and you, you beautiful girl, will live on forever in the hearts of all those that have carried you in theirs the last 12 days and of course those that carried you in your lifetime."

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