Becky Watts killer Shauna Hoare finds love with paramedic who stole drugs from dying patients

Shauna Hoare met girlfriend Jessica Silvester in jail while serving a seventeen-year sentence for the sex kidnap plot that claimed the life of 16-year-old Becky Watts

One of Becky Watts' killers has found love with a paramedic who stole painkillers from dying patients during the pandemic.

Shauna Hoare, 30, was released on licence last year after serving eight and a half years for her part in the murder of the teenager in 2015. Becky, 16, was killed in a sexually motivated kidnap plot in 2015. A trial heard Hoare’s then boyfriend Nathan Matthews suffocated Becky and the pair tried to cover it up by dismembering her body. Matthews – Becky’s step-brother – was jailed for 33 years for murder, while Hoare was found guilty of manslaughter and got 17 years.

She was freed last September after serving half her sentence and has coupled up with ex-paramedic Jessica Silvester. During lockdown Silvester posed as a nurse and, with her then fiancee Ruth Lambert, stole morphine from the homes of 29 patients receiving end-of-life care in Kent. Silvester was jailed in 2022 and released in February after serving half of her five-year sentence. Sources said the pair have set up home together in Maidstone, Kent.

We can also reveal Hoare goes by the alias Rose and sports a tattoo on her ribcage that reads “Freedom” in capital letters. Silvester, 32, has bagged 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 said: “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.” Becky’s remains were found in suitcases in a garden shed 12 days after she vanished, bringing a huge search to an end. Hoare denied any knowledge of the murder but the prosecution branded her claims “ridiculous” as she was with Matthews when Becky died and for days afterwards.

Hoare, then 21, and Matthews, 28, had shared texts about kidnapping schoolgirls and teen-themed pornography just weeks before Becky’s death, a trial at Bristol crown court heard. The judge, Mr Justice James Dingemans, said he was sure the planned kidnap “was for a sexual purpose.”

In an impact statement read out at court, Becky’s mum Tanya Watts said the fact her daughter had been both murdered and mutilated was “like the worst of all horror movies.” A Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service last year ordered Silvester be struck off the register.