Becky Watts Killer Appeals Against Convictions

The woman who killed Bristol teenager Becky Watts is appealing against her convictions and sentence.

Shauna Hoare, 21, is serving 17 years in prison for the manslaughter of 16-year-old Becky in February.

Her boyfriend Nathan Matthews, 28, was sentenced to a minimum of 33 years for murdering Becky, who was his stepsister.

Both were found guilty of kidnap, perverting the course of justice, preventing a lawful burial and possessing two stun gun torches.

A court spokesman on Thursday confirmed Hoare lodged an appeal against all of her convictions and her sentence.

There was no information to suggest Matthews was appealing against his conviction or sentence, the spokesman added.

The couple killed Becky in her bedroom at her family home in Crown Hill, Bristol, on 19 February, in a sexually motivated kidnap plot.

The teenager sustained more than 40 injuries as she fought for her life before being suffocated by Matthews.

A six-week trial at Bristol Crown Court heard that her body was dismembered with a circular saw in the bathroom of their home in Cotton Mill Lane.

Her remains were then hidden in a nearby shed where they were eventually discovered on 2 March.

Matthews and Hoare planned to kidnap her as a part of their plot based on their shared interest in pretty, petite teenagers, their trial heard.

CCTV showed Matthews buying the circular saw the day after murdering Becky - staff say he even haggled over the price.

The trial also heard how Matthews and Hoare swapped messages about kidnapping schoolgirls in the months before Becky's death.

The couple, who fantasised about bringing a teenage girl to the attic of their squalid home, had packed a kidnap kit in the boot of their car.

Their laptop contained a 17-minute video depicting a virgin being attacked in her home, with her rapist placing a hand over her mouth.

Trial judge Mr Justice Dingemans was in tears as he jailed Hoare and Matthews in November and spoke of the "immense burden" suffered by Becky's family.

"Their deceit of the family was particularly cruel and unusual and the family's sense of betrayal by Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare is both understandable and justified," he added.

Karl Demetrius, 30, and Jaydene Parsons, 23, who admitted assisting Matthews to hide Becky's body parts in their shed, will be sentenced in February.