I worked in jail salon with Becky Watts’ killer Shauna Hoare – she pretended to be timid and sweet but is a manipulator
A FORMER lag who worked with an evil killer in a prison salon says she’s a “manipulator” who only pretended to be nice.
Shauna Hoare helped then-boyfriend Nathan Matthews kill 16-year-old Becky Watts in Bristol in 2015.
Becky was suffocated in her bedroom before her body was put in the boot of their car. She had suffered more than 40 injuries.
Matthews and Hoare stayed at the house for six hours as if nothing had happened, ordering a takeaway, playing Monopoly and laughing over a parody song from Frozen called Do You Want to Hide a Body?
Hoare was jailed for 17 years for manslaughter while partner Matthews, then 28, was jailed for 33 years for murdering his step-sister Becky in a sexually-motivated kidnap plot.
Emily Duff, who says she was in a house block inside HMP Bronzefield with Hoare, has told her TikTok followers what the killer was like behind bars.
Duff claims to have worked with Hoare in a salon at Bronzefield.
She said: “So for anyone who’s been to prison, not having to shower communally is great, so in that sense she was living nice.
“This meant as well that she was not in general population, not on other house blocks where she could have been at risk.
“She was able to move freely around the prison, in between work and education. The whole time I was there I never saw anything happen to her.
“I also lived on this house block, so I would see her around the house block and I worked with her in the salon so quite a lot of my time was spent around her.
“Not that I really had conversations with her, only if it was purely to do with hairdressing. I’d never sat down and had a full blown conversation with her.
“To me, she almost carried herself as though she was the victim, came across really timid, tried to portray a sweetness but I didn’t buy it.
“In my eyes, I believe she’s a manipulator and I believe she did what she could while she was there to manipulate situations for her benefit.”
Duff said that in her view Hoare was “evil to the core to be honest with you.”
Earlier this month The Sun reported that Hoare was spotted enjoying a shopping trip after being freed halfway through her 17-year sentence for manslaughter.
Becky’s mum Tanya said: “Shauna Hoare is pure evil. She shouldn’t be allowed out at all. I don’t want her to sneak out of prison under the radar.
“People should know Hoare is back out on the streets.”
Prison bosses suggested any suggestion that Hoare had received preferential treatment behind bars.
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “We know this will be an incredibly difficult time for Becky Watts’ loved ones and our heartfelt thoughts remain with them.
“It’s untrue to suggest any preferential treatment was given – prisoners housed together are subject to the same regime of restrictions and opportunities.”