Becky Watts killer Shauna Hoare finds love with disgraced drug-stealing ex-paramedic

One of Becky Watts’ killers has found love with a disgraced paramedic who stole medication from vulnerable patients during the Covid-19 pandemic.

After serving eight and a half years for her role in the murder of the young teen, 30-year-old Shauna Hoare was released on licence last year. The 16-year-old girl was killed in a sexually motivated kidnap plot in 2015.

The trial of her murder revealed terrifying details of her fate. Hoare’s then-boyfriend Nathan Matthews suffocated Becky and the pair tried to cover it up by dismembering her body.

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Nathan, who was also Becky’s step-brother, was locked up for 33 years for murder, while Hoare was found guilty of manslaughter and got 17 years.

However, she was freed last September after serving half her sentence – and has found love in the arms of former paramedic Jessica Silvester. During the coronavirus lockdown, she pretended to be a nurse and stole morphine from 29 patients receiving end-of-life care.

The ex-paramedic was sent to jail in 2022, and released in February after serving half of her five year sentence. According to Mirror Online, sources suggest the two law-breakers have set up home in Maidstone, Kent.

Not only that, but Hoare goes by the alias Rose and sports a tattoo on her ribcage that reads “Freedom” in capital letters. Meanwhile, 32-year-old Silvester landed a job as a house plant technician at a social enterprise for ex-prisoners. The pair are active on social media and often boast about treating each other to flowers and “date days.”

A source told Mirror Online: “Shauna moved in with Jess after leaving her hostel in Reading in September. It comes as no surprise – they are two innately nasty people who were close behind bars. They seem happy together and are doing all they can to erase their past.”

Previously, an ex-prisoner who worked with Becky Watt’s “shifty” killer inside HMP Bronzefield said that she was “shocked” that her release was granted. Speaking exclusively to the Daily Star, Hoare’s former wing mate and colleague Emily Duff spoke to us about what she was like inside.

She said: “To find out she was released after only serving eight years… initially I was really shocked. I think it is absolutely disgusting. I got eight years for a drug related offence due to an abusive relationship I was in and served four. She got 17 years and served eight.

“It is funny because we would have gone into prison roughly around the same time and my licence conditions ended yesterday. If I was to have served my full sentences we would have served the same amount of time.

“Yes, drugs destroy a lot of lives and I do understand that but I couldn’t cut up someone’s body with a saw and put it in a suitcase. I just don’t think they compare and that is the frustrating side of the criminal justice system when you look at things from that perspective.”