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For what is clear now is that the seeds of that killing were sown long ago, something Becky would have been aware of when she posed uneasily for that picture.
By then she knew what sort of a person her stepbrother was – if not what he was capable of.
Vain and socially inadequate, Matthews bitterly resented Becky’s position in the family household, claiming that she took her father and stepmother – his real mother – for granted.
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But perhaps it is the following piece of self-assessment that is closest to the mark: ‘You don’t corner a rat in a corner, because they attack.’
Clearly, in Matthews’ eyes, it was he who was the victim.
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In legal argument ahead of the trial it was also claimed that when Becky was just eight, he made an inappropriate pass at her, touching her thigh over her clothes.
Two of her friends complained of similar contact at the same age.
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Hoare, who is no longer pregnant, claimed she had no idea what her boyfriend was going to do or had done – even though she was just yards away from him when he killed Becky, then cut up her body.
But prosecutor William Mousley QC rejected this version of events, telling the jury that Hoare was involved from start to finish and had presented herself as ‘confident and calculating’.
‘Again, not a flicker of emotion in the whole time she was in the witness box,’ he said. ‘A very cool, one might say very cold individual.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...isted-soul-Nathan-Matthews.html#ixzz3rGnMVdF1
A well written article, imo. NM and SH are the perpetual victims, not an ounce of common sense or humanity between them. NM felt the world owed him a living and Becky ultimately was going to pay dearly for his own perceived shortcomings and inadequacies. SH jumped on board with NM, enjoying the attention and increasingly sick fantasies. Both compulsive liars who reveled in their duplicity, showing one side to the family and another when alone. These two together created hell on earth!
I didn't realise two of Becky's friends had complained that he'd touched them too. Sounds like he'd been attracted to young girls for a long time.