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| Becky Watts death: Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare appeals thrown out | |
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| The killers of teenager Becky Watts have had applications to appeal their convictions and sentences thrown out. | |
| Nathan Matthews, 29, was jailed for 33 years for murdering his 16-year-old stepsister in a sexually-motivated kidnap plot and dismembering her body. | |
| Shauna Hoare, 22, was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 17 years. | |
| The latest ruling comes after a single judge rejected an earlier application by the pair to appeal. | |
| The Court of Appeal said there was no "reasonable argument" the convictions were unsafe or the sentences "manifestly excessive". | |
| The teenager's dismembered body was found after she went missing from her home in Bristol in February 2015. | |
| The trial heard she was suffocated by Matthews and her body transported to her stepbrother's home, where it was hidden in a shed. |