Karl Demetrius admitted helping nathan mattews
A couple who let Becky Watts' killer stepbrother hide her body parts in their garden shed have been jailed.
Karl Demetrius and Jaydene Parsons admitted helping Nathan Matthews commit the horrendous crime at a hearing last year.
Jayden Parsons
They were sentenced today at Bristol Crown Court.
The remains of Becky, 16, were found in their shed in Barton Court, Bristol, in the early hours of March 3 last year.
Demetrius and Parsons each admitted a charge of assisting an offender.
However, they maintain they "did not know or believe" the bags contained Becky's body.
Nathan Matthews cries as police question him about confession to killing Becky Watts
Evil: Nathan Matthews, 28, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 33 years
In mitigation, they said they believed Matthews wanted to hide drugs, probably cannabis, and would receive a share of £10,000 in return.
Nathan Matthews, 28, got a minimum of 33 years for murder and his partner Shauna Hoare, 21, was jailed for 17 years for manslaughter.
Killer: Shauna Hoare, 21, is challenging her conviction for manslaughter
The evil pair killed Becky then dismembered the teenager's body with a circular saw in a bathtub.
Mother-of-two Parsons wept as she was jailed for 16 months, and her partner Demetrius blew kisses to his family after he was given a two-year prison term.
Jailing them, Judge Neil Ford QC said: "The offender you assisted was Nathan Matthews, who has been convicted of the murder of Rebecca Watts and other related offences.
"He not only killed Miss Watts, but he dismembered her body in preparation for disposing it.
"You both knew Nathan Matthews but neither of you could have imagined that he was capable of the levels of depravity to which he descended."
But he added: "It is clear from the amount of money you were offered that you were engaging in significant criminal behaviour in order to impede the prosecution of Matthews for a suspected drug offence which you believed he had committed."
PANathan Matthews, 28, who along with his girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, will be sentenced for the murder of his step sister Becky Watts, 16, at Bristol Crown CourtEvil: Nathan Matthews, 28, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 33 years
"This of course is only part of the picture.
"Those who assist offenders in ignorance of the offence that has been committed take a risk, and the punishment that follows must reflect the offence that was committed, not the mistaken belief of the person who assists the offender."
PAShauna Hoare, 21, who along with her boyfriend Nathan Matthews, 28, will be sentenced for her part in the murder of his step sister Becky Watts, 16, at Bristol Crown CourtKiller: Shauna Hoare, 21, is challenging her conviction for manslaughter
"I have no doubt that if you had known or suspected what Matthews had done, you would not have become involved.
"Nevertheless, the offences you assisted could have hardly have been more serious."
The court heard Matthews or Hoare enlisted Demetrius and his work colleague Ireland to help move Becky's body on February 23 - four days after the killing.
She responded: "Ah ok, you gonna hide it for him, we could do with the money. Lol. xxx."
Parsons later sent another message referring to the fact that Matthews had promised to pay them a share of £10,000, the court heard yesterday.
It said: "Cool, that's a deposit on a house. Lol. xxx."
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