THE mother of Becky Watts’ killer Nathan Matthews said today: “I still love him but not the monster he turned into.”
Anjie Galsworthy, who is married to Becky’s dad Darren, also revealed she plans to visit her son in jail to ask why he “betrayed” the family.
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Darren said he “hates” his step-son for “absolutely destroying my entire family”.
He said of Matthews and his lover Shauna Hoare, 21: “They’ve got no more right to walk God’s green earth than a sewer rat.”
Porn-obsessed Matthews, 28, was found guilty of murdering Becky yesterday after a four-week trial at Bristol Crown Court. Hoare was convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy to kidnap.
Darren, 51, and Anjie, 49, spoke out on ITV’s Good Morning Britain today.
Anjie said “no sentence could be long enough” for what her son had done.
She said: “It’s not the boy that I knew. I’m still his mother, I still love him. I don’t love the monster he turned into.”
She has not spoken to her son since he was arrested in February but plans to visit him after he is sentenced tomorrow.
Anjie said: “I’ll ask him why, why this happened.”
Darren said there were no clues what Matthews and Hoare were planning.
He said: “We’ve been mulling it over for months and months — why didn’t we see anything? But there was no signs at all.
“When they arrested them we still said ‘you’ve got it wrong’.
“We trusted them and the betrayal hurts so much.
“We loved them. They were all our kids, even if they had different DNA, it didn’t make any difference. We loved them, they was our family.”
He added: “They’ve got no more right to walk God’s green earth than a sewer rat.
“I hate him. He’s absolutely destroyed my entire family.
“I felt like an empty husk of a man. I felt like I’d let my daughter down.
“Every dad should be able to fight for his family and I wasn’t given that choice. In fact they went out of their way to make sure I didn’t get that choice.”
Matthews and Hoare will be sentenced tomorrow.