Man weeps as he tells how he killed stepsister

The stepbrother of Becky Watts sobbed uncontrollably as he recounted how he killed the teenager after trying to force her into a suitcase during a kidnap attempt.

Man weeps as he tells how he killed stepsister
Wed, 28 Oct, 2015 - 00:00
Claire Hayhurst and Rod Minchin

Nathan Matthews, 28, hunched over the witness box, wept and twisted tissue in his hands as he gave evidence during his murder trial at Bristol Crown Court.

Matthews and his girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, are accused of killing Becky, 16, in a sexually-motivated kidnap plot at her home in Crown Hill, Bristol, on February 19

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