Becky ‘happy and joyful’ after anorexia fight

“BE HAPPY,” said a simple message scrawled in marker pen on Becky Watts’s white school leavers T-shirt left hanging in her bedroom.

Having overcome a four-year battle to beat severe shyness and anorexia, the 16-year-old had good cause to believe her friend’s note would come true.

Yesterday her mother, grandmother and brother said she was “like a tornado, hurricane and sunbeam all at once” despite her previous troubles.

Becky, who had left her mother’s home aged three, was bullied about her weight after starting secondary school and was referred to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in 2011. At that point, Becky was “anxiously” attached to her stepmother and worried about her weight, which dropped to 6st. She was schooled in hospital, as being in groups caused her anxiety.

But by March 2013 Becky was back to a healthy weight and was discharged from CAMHS, with a doctor saying she was “happy and joyful”.

During her time in hospital, Becky made two friends, including best friend Courtney Bicker, 17, with her family nicknaming them the Three Amigos. “She started to go out more and more and became really fashion-conscious, developing her own style, and always looked immaculate,” said her father, Darren Galsworthy, at her funeral.

Becky then joined KTS Training in Bristol to complete her GCSEs and got together with her boyfriend Luke Oberhansli, 18, in November 2014.

Luke has said he was not aware Becky had any problems or anxieties and “always seemed happy”. Becky had known Nathan Matthews since she was about four, when her father met Nathan’s mother, Anjie.

Yesterday, outside court, Becky’s mother Tanya Watts, grandmother Pat Watts and brother Danny Watts said: “We loved Becky and know her better than most. We can tell you that she was a beautiful, happy, funny, feisty, caring, loyal and witty girl. She came into your life and made you feel alive.”