Becky Watts 'was scared of her stepbrother', friend says

A close friend of Becky Watts has said the teenager was "scared" of her stepbrother Nathan Matthews.

Matthews was found guilty of murdering Becky during a sexually motivated kidnap plot, while his girlfriend Shauna Hoare was convicted of manslaughter.

Courtney Bicker told Victoria Derbyshire that Becky was her best friend and that she had been a happy and normal 16-year-old girl.

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