Daily Mirror

Tragic Becky ‘was scared of abduction’

- BY ADAM ASPINALL

MURDERED girl Becky Watts had feared she would be abducted, a report has revealed.

Her step-brother Nathan Matthews killed her after plotting to kidnap her.

The probe said a local authority agency was concerned she was being exploited by a “young male peer” threatenin­g to publish “explicit” photos online.

Bristol’s Safeguardi­ng Children Board has found she was seen by 17 experts from eight service providers in the three-and-ahalf years before her death.

But the report said there was no evidence the killing could have been predicted by the profession­als.

Becky, 16, was killed in 2015. Matthews was found guilty of murder and his partner Shauna Hoare was convicted of manslaught­er.

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