Nathan Matthews and Shuana Hoare were both jailed in November for the murder of 16-year-old Becky Watts, pictured, who was killed in the bedroom of her Bristol home by Matthews, 28, a year ago. He had hatched a sexually motivated plot to kidnap her with girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, who was later convicted of manslaughter. The couple dismembered Becky's body and hid it in a garden shed near their Bristol home. Now, figures have revealed they were granted a total of £402,249 - but more bills are due to be authorised and paid for Hoare. Matthews, a former Territorial Army soldier turned takeaway driver, was given £324,549 in legal aid in the lead-up to and during their seven-week trial, while Hoare received £77,700.
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- Sunderland bosses accuse Adam Johnson of lying after he claimed they KNEW he groomed and kissed a 15-year-old female fan but paid him £2million for another NINE months
- 'I hope this is finished by Friday. It's a bit boring now': How arrogant Adam Johnson joked around during his child sex trial and was even told off by the judge
- Pictured on his wedding day with the bride he met online: The sex-obsessed father-of-three who raped five women and brutally attacked two others after meeting them on Match.com
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ADAM JOHNSON GUILTY OF SEX CRIMES
'Say goodbye to your daughter': Judge tells shamed footballer Adam Johnson that he WILL be jailed after he is found guilty of sexually touching a 15-year-old girl who idolised him
The former Sunderland player (pictured, inset, after his arrest and, right, today) had already admitted grooming and kissing the schoolgirl. A jury has today found him guilty of putting his hand down her trousers when she met him in his car. The 28-year-old was accompanied by his girlfriend, Stacey Flounders (left) into court this morning. The player, who was sacked by his club after his initial guilty pleas, now faces a potential jail term and is unlikely ever to play football again. The case also raises questions for Sunderland, who allowed Johnson to continue playing for them even after he told them he had groomed the girl.
Selfish, depraved... he acted as if footballers were above the law: How gifted but flawed star threw away his career - and lost WAG who stood by him
Pictured on his wedding day with the bride he met online: The sex-obsessed father-of-three who raped five women and brutally attacked two others after meeting them on Match.com
Jason Lawrance (left, on his wedding day), 50, a sex-obsessed father-of-three from Hinckley in Leicestershire, raped five of the women he met through Match.com and brutally attacked two more. Yet, in the middle of his crimes, he married another woman (left, her face obscured) he met on the same site. In court, Lawrance's defence was that the sex was consensual. He said: 'I believe it is called "playing the field"... I like ladies and I like sex. That's Match.com.' But his two-week trial at Derby Crown Court has raised disturbing questions about how the serial rapist targeted his victims online and why, when several reported his behaviour to Match, nothing was done to stop him from using the site. He used the names KeepItStraightToday and StraightManLooking (top right) to approach thousands of women on the site.
THE BATTLE FOR BRITAIN: IN OR OUT OF EUROPE
KATIE HOPKINS: They've finally given us a vote on Europe just in time to see it collapse. So, whoever 'wins', we need to prepare for the chaos that comes after
Can you hear all that babble? Brexit this and Grassroots that. Undecided about staying. Unsure what might happen if we leave. Listening to Dave the Rave (pictured left) justifying why we are safer in and Bojo telling us to get the hell out. I was getting quite caught up in the excitement of it all, watching grown ups shouting IN and OUT at each other like tug of war teams, digging in with their heels to prove whose balls are bigger. Only to fall on your a*** and find there's nothing on the end of the rope. So then I stopped for a moment. And took a look around, writes KATIE HOPKINS.
Only place we get some peace... the bathroom: Nearly 3.7million Britons now use the room to 'find solitude' from busy parts of the home
Lifestyle guru Oliver Heath said the bathroom is one of the few places we can be at home with our thoughts in a world in which we are 'always on' thanks to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets'. He added: 'Creating a refuge space for private calming moments is fundamental in restoring our mental and physical energy, helping us to relax after a long day.' A survey found that two thirds (67 per cent) of us are spending more time in the home. But the average family spends just 58 minutes with each other per day, including weekends.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Jeremy Corbyn reveals he centres his 'moral compass' by watching EastEnders and asking what would hard man Phil Mitchell do?
- Boris Johnson storms ahead in the race for No 10 as he leads George Osborne by more than 20% among the activists who will pick the next Prime Minister
- Labour MP Ian Austin rages at David Cameron after decision to make British medals in FRANCE
Emotional moment HOMELESS woman is reunited wither two best childhood friends after they saw her on TV news report about sleeping rough
Lisa Moore first met Amanda Phillips and Ann Marie Preece at nursery school in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, but the trio lost touch when Ms Moore moved away more than a decade ago. Their moving reunion was arranged by homelessness charity Red Bag Company after Ms Phillips and Ms Preece set about trying to track down their friend upon hearing of her plight on TV. Ms Moore, who has been living on the streets of Birmingham for the past three months, is seen embracing her two best childhood friends as the trio are reintroduced.
Farewell, Father Jack: Hundreds of mourners including Ardal O'Hanlon attend the funeral of actor Frank Kelly who brought 'joy to millions' as the drunken, foul-mouthed priest in Father Ted
Frank Kelly (inset right), who played Father Jack Hackett (inset left) in the hit comedy series, passed away on Sunday at the age of 77 after a career spanning 60 years on stage and screen. His wife of 51 years, Bairbre, seven children, 17 grandchildren, his brothers Aidan and David and sister Pauline led mourners at his funeral (main) at the Church of the Guardian Angels in Blackrock, Dublin. Other attendees included Father Ted writers Graham Linehan (bottom left) and Arthur Matthews, Father Dougal McGuire actor Ardal O'Hanlon (top left). Don and Rob Morgan, two sons of Father Ted actor Dermot Morgan - who died on the same day as Mr Kelly 18 years ago - also arrived to say their final farewells.
Fly-tippers caught on CCTV as they returned time after time to industrial estate to dump 42 TONNES of waste including fridges, rubble and 15 rotting SHEEP
Two fly-tippers who were caught on CCTV dumping 42 tonnes of waste including 15 rotting sheep carcasses in the middle of a road have been jailed. Ionut Muti, 24, (bottom right) and Augustin Dobre, 23, (top right) were caught repeatedly driving to an industrial estate in Birmingham and leaving fridges, mattresses and rubble in the road. On one occasion, the pair were spotted dumping the bodies of 15 sheep on Priory Road, Aston, in the middle of the night (inset) before driving off in their battered red people carrier. They admitted fly-tipping and were jailed for a total of 17 months.
Sexual predator is given four life sentences for abducting and murdering British-born student Hannah Graham and another young woman in Virginia
Jesse LeRoy Matthew Jr (left) appeared at Albemarle County Circuit Court on Wednesday to enter guilty pleas for the murder of Morgan Harrington (inset) and Hannah Graham (right). Matthew, 34, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and abduction with intent to defile in both cases under an agreement that means he will never again be free. The judge accepted the plea agreement and he was given four consecutive life terms. He is already serving three life sentences for raping a woman in Fairfax County in 2005. Under the terms, Matthew waived his right to appeal and will not be eligible for any kind of parole.
'Paranoid' wife is facing a £1million legal bill for dragging her ex-husband to court and wrongly accusing him of plundering their £18million fortune
A 'paranoid' divorcing wife is facing a staggering £1million lawyers' bill for dragging her ex-husband to court and wrongly accusing him of plundering their £18million fortune. Maya Kanev-Lipinski, right, wept in court after hearing a judge rule that her 'fear, suspicion and dislike' of her multi-millionaire ex-husband Shahar Lipinski, right, had got the better of her. But a judge has said there had been 'no dispersal' of the former couple's £18million student housing fortune by the tycoon, 45, since their 17-year marriage ended in 2012. The couple are currently locked in a High Court battle over the division of their assets, with Mrs Kanev-Lipinski seeking a £9million payout over the coming months. Pictured inset is their former £2million family home near Nottingham.
New Harry Potter film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be a TRILOGY, JK Rowling confirms
Hippie 'hunter-gatherers' face eviction from woodland commune where they've lived for 16 years because they didn't get planning permission for the timber structures
The Steward Woodland Community, which has 21 residents, including nine children, live in homes which they built themselves (top right) in rural Dartmoor, Devon. Their alternative self-sufficient lifestyle includes foraging for food, using solar powered electricity and alternative medicines. But despite living there since 2000, the Dartmoor National Park Authority has refused permanent planning permission for their homes and ordered them to leave. Resident Sonny Parsons (pictured left with her daughters Daisy, 17, Asha, 13, and friend Emerald Worsley, 13), said leaving the set-up would be like leaving their family. A crowdfunding campaign has now been launched to raise the £38,000 needed to launch a legal challenge against the planning decision. Pictured bottom right: The community room in the woodland.
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THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
Ex-Playboy model and Miss Bosnia is jailed for attempted murder after luring gangster into an ambush because he was infatuated with her
A court ruled that Slobodanka Tosic (left and right), 29, who was once crowned Miss Bosnia, should spend at least two and a half years behind bars for luring a suspected crime boss into an ambush. She led convicted murderer Djordje Zdrale (inset), who was in love with her, to an area where his rivals were waiting to kill him. The hit was masterminded by another Balkan gangland figure, Darko Elez, who Tosic was said to be dating at the time, the court heard. She was arrested and extradited from Croatia after being linked to five murders and a string of robberies to the amount of millions of pounds in July. It was thought those charges stemmed from her involvement with Elez.
WORLD NEWS
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