Becky Watts trial: Teenager 'was an attention seeker', says accused

The jurors were shown Cotton Mill Lane where Becky's body was allegedly dismembered

The woman accused of murdering Becky Watts told police the teenager was good at manipulating people and was an attention seeker.

In a police interview played in court she said the 16-year-old "knew how to work people".

Becky's stepbrother Nathan Matthews, 28, and his girlfriend, Shauna Hoare, 21, deny murder.

Earlier the jury visited the house in Bristol where it is alleged the teenager was killed by her stepbrother.

The ten women and two men spent 16 minutes inside the house at Crown Hill, in the St George area of the city.

The prosecution alleges Becky was killed in her bedroom at the family home in Crown Hill

They also visited another property where her body was allegedly dismembered, and the garden where her body parts were discovered.

In the police interview, recorded before Ms Hoare was arrested, she told detectives Becky had recently "bonded" with her stepbrother who had been helping her to buy a mobile phone.

"Nathan had this thing that if he heard her coming down the stairs he would hide behind the door and jump out at her and she jumped every time," she said.

Becky lived at the family home in Crown Hill in the St George area of Bristol with her father and stepmother

The prosecution alleges Becky was killed at the family home in Crown Hill on 19 February.

Her body was taken to Mr Matthews' and Ms Hoare's home in Cotton Mill Lane where it was allegedly dismembered.

Body parts were later found at an address in Barton Court.

Mr Matthews of Hazelbury Drive in Warmley, South Gloucestershire has admitted manslaughter but denies murder and conspiracy to kidnap.

The jury was taken to Crown Hill in the St George area of Bristol

He has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice, preventing burial of a corpse and possessing a prohibited weapon.

Ms Hoare of Cotton Mill Lane in Bristol, denies murder, conspiracy to kidnap, perverting the course of justice, preventing burial of a corpse and possessing a prohibited weapon.

Two other men on trial, Donovan Demetrius, 29, and James Ireland, 23, deny a charge of assisting an offender.

Karl Demetrius, 29, and Jaydene Parsons, 23, previously pleaded guilty to assisting an offender after body parts were found in their shed, but both said they were unaware of what the packages contained.

Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare (right) are accused of murdering Becky Watts (left)

The trial at Bristol Crown Court continues.