Nathan Matthews, 28, and Shauna Hoare, 21, are accused of killing Becky Watts during a February kidnapping attempt. The two, who are currently on
trial in Bristol, have denied the charges, the Guardian reported.
Parts of Watts' body was found on March 2, less than two weeks after she was reported missing. The teen was suffocated in her bedroom, and her body was later cut up into mangled pieces with a power saw, officials said.

Prosecutors said Matthews and Hoare shared an "unnatural interest in attractive females" They detailed their fixation with petite, teenage girls in evidence found on their cellphones and computers.
"There is good reason to believe there was a sexual motive," Prosecutor William Mousley said in court Wednesday.
Matthews allegedly admitted to police he strangled his stepsister during a failed attempt to kidnap her. He said he acted alone — but detectives said both Matthews and Hoare visited Watts' home on Feb. 19, the day she was reported missing.
Blood on the door frame of her bedroom contained Matthews' fingerprints, police said.

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Nathan Matthew (back left) and Shauna Hoare (back right) are sketched in court

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Police conduct fingertip searches close to where Becky Watts' body was found in March.

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A candle burns next to a photograph of Becky Watts at Bristol's St. Ambrose Church on March 4.

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Police wait outside a property where Becky Watts' dismembered body was found earlier this year.

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Becky Watts' body was found less than two weeks after she vanished in February.
On the day Watts went missing, surveillance video showed the couple driving with a child in the backseat. Police raided their shared home and found two illegally owned stun guns.
The couple was arrested for kidnapping on Feb. 28. Two days later, when Watts' body was found in a shed, they were charged with murder.
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Watts was reported missing on Feb. 19.
Surveillance video from a hardware shop showed Matthews buying a power saw, gloves, goggles and a face mask a day after Watts went missing. Prosecutors said the couple used the items to dismember Watts' body. He haggled the price of the saw with the cashier, Mousley said.
"He made it plain that he needed that saw and he needed to have it that day," he said.
After days of desperately searching for the missing Watts, police found her body in a shed behind a family home. The homeowners admitted they agreed to help a criminal — but they thought they were hiding a bag of marijuana, not a bag of body parts, they claimed.
Hoare pleaded not guilty to all changes against her: kidnapping, murder, preventing burial, preventing the course of justice and possessing illegal stun guns.
Matthews pleaded not guilty to the murder and kidnapping charges, but admitted to preventing lawful burial, preventing the course of justice ad possessing the stun guns.
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