So was it murder or may it have been an accident. Hazell also stored another bin bag containing incriminating items in the loft, the prosecution said. The contents included his T-shirt which was found to have the child's blood on it and a pair of his spectacles which were broken and carried one of Sharp's fingerprints on a lens.
Sharp — who regularly stayed with her grandmother Christine Bicknell and her boyfriend Hazell — was reported missing on 3 August last year by her grandmother. When the press laid siege to the house after Tia's disappearance he was effectively under house arrest and his plan to move the body somewhere else became extremely difficult, the court heard. Tia's body was found in the loft a week later. The decomposition was such that no cause of death was ascertained, although a pathologist will tell the court that smothering was the most likely form of death.
Hazell was arrested on Friday 10 August after the child's body was discovered. He was remanded in custody at Belmarsh prison in London, where, the court heard, he spoke to a prison officer. I am not a nonce or a pervert,'" said Edis. There were also three video clips of Tia sleeping in her bedroom and 11 still images of her sleeping. Another image showed a young girl lying naked on Tia's bed, and there were "professional" pornographic images of young girls performing sex acts, the jury heard.
Mr Edis said internet history on Mr Hazell's phone showed searches of a website that was popular with paedophiles. He said Mr Hazell had also visited a pornographic website on 6 August - while Tia's body was in the loft. Mr Edis told jurors they will have to decide whether Mr Hazell is guilty of murder, or whether Tia died in an accident. He warned them they will find some of the evidence in the trial, which is expected to last nearly three weeks, "distressing".
Mr Edis told the jury the loft had been inspected by police twice before Tia's body was found. It has been moved up and then across within the loft space. It has been an act of remorse which one would not have expected of this particular man.
Hazell's guilty plea came after four days of graphic evidence during which Tia's mother, Natalie Sharp, frequently had to leave the courtroom, visibly distressed. The prosecution case's evidence included a grotesque photograph of a girl alleged to be Tia after she died, which was found on a memory card belonging to Hazell. In the picture, a naked girl, whose face cannot be seen, is posed on all fours on a bed.
Afterwards Hazell put her body in bin bags in the loft, where it was found a week later. The Old Bailey heard that in the weeks before her death Hazell, 37, who was obsessed with paedophile websites, had repeatedly filmed Tia as she slept — and on one occasion as she rubbed moisturiser on her legs while in her underwear.
Detectives believe he deliberately removed the bathroom door at the house at Ms Bicknell's home so he could spy on the schoolgirl. He is also thought to have modified the light socket in her room to create a 'spyhole'.
He had also searched the internet for child pornography involving children who looked like Tia, using terms including 'violent forced rape' and 'little girls in glasses'. The window cleaner and convicted drug dealer had been in a relationship with Christine Bicknell for five and a half years, moving in just a week after they got together. She said in a statement to police that Hazell, who had previously briefly dated Tia's mother, was not somebody she 'dragged in from the street'.
He repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, even giving a television interview claiming that he did not know what had happened to Tia. In a victim impact statement read to the court, Tia's mother Natalie Sharp said that Tia was her grandmother Christine's 'mini-me' and 'her life', adding 'When the trial is done, everything is over for everyone else, but it won't be for us. It is too hard for me to believe that she is really gone. I try to think of her being on a sleepover at her friend's house.
I've had to tell him the truth. It made him really cry. I told him that Tia is a star in the sky and now when we go up to say goodnight, we look out of the bedroom window and speak to the star, the one that was bought in Tia's name.
I fear anyone hurting my boys. I fear that if anyone touches my sons or does anything to them, what I might do, I am so scared and angry. I have been so badly hurt by people I don't know and who know nothing of me. I can't understand how people who know nothing about somebody can send such awful messages.
Tia's father, Steven Carter, broke down in tears as Hazell changed his plea, and later said in a statement: 'The murder of my daughter Tia has shattered mine and my family's hearts. We will never get our heads around what has happened to Tia.
We have all lost someone special. Tia's heartbroken step grandmother, the mother of Natalie Sharp's partner David today spoke of her 'relief' after Stuart Hazell changed his plea to guilty. Angie Niles, 69, said: 'It's a very emotional time for all of the family who are sitting here around the TV, but in a strange way we also feel relief.
Now we can get on with grieving for my beloved grand-daughter. The process isn't easy but now we can get on as best as we can. I hope the judge locks him up forever and throws away the key.
He doesn't deserve anymore than that. Scotland Yard today welcomed his guilty plea but said it should have come sooner. However, Hazell's conviction will never bring Tia back and her family will have to live with her loss for the rest of their lives.
Hazell abused that position of trust by planning an assault on Tia that ultimately led to her murder. However, he put Tia's family through a week of heart-breaking evidence in court and I wish for their sakes he had admitted his guilt sooner. But the senior investigating officer said that while finding the body during the first two searches would have meant he was charged sooner it 'would not have made any difference' to what happened afterwards, merely brought it forward.
They would still have had to deal with Hazell's lies and his interest in child porn and young girls, he said. Alison Saunders, chief Crown Prosecutor for London, said: 'This was an appalling and unthinkable crime, made worse by Hazell's efforts to hide Tia's body and disrupt the police investigation.
Instead, he abused and murdered her. Prosecutors believe Tia was murdered in the early hours of August 3 last year while she was alone with Hazell as her grandmother worked overnight at a care home. Christine Bicknell called Hazell from work and said she could hear Tia laughing in the background as they watched TV, the court heard. Hazell sent Miss Bicknell a text at Another message from him at But the prosecution claim instead of going to bed, he attacked Tia over the next few hours.
Andrew Edis QC told the court that Hazell could face a whole life sentence because the murder of Tia Sharp was sexually motivated.
He said: 'We do not know and will never know exactly what took place in the house that night but it is the submission of the prosecution that it's clear that Hazell committed a significant sexual offence against her, killed her, took her photograph as some form of keepsake and then in quite a calculated way wrapped up the body. Mr Edis added that Tia was sexually assaulted, but said: 'What else it may have involved cannot be known. The prosecutor also highlighted Hazell's behaviour in 'the taking of the photograph after she had died for sexual gratification and having done that in dressing her in her pajamas and wrapping up separately her outdoor clothing and putting her body in the loft.
He went on television to proclaim his innocence and in the event continued to deny what had happened even when he was arrested after the body had started to smell in the house. The Old Bailey heard earlier that he told his father he regretted Tia's death 'every second of every day' in a letter begging for forgiveness. He wrote to his dad Keith from Belmarsh prison in August last year, saying he had made 'one mistake and my whole world has collapsed'.
He told his father that he wishes he could 'turn back the clock' and that he was unable to eat or sleep in prison. The letter had two pictures of sad faces drawn on it and had two words written at the top: 'Forgive me'. The jury heard that Hazell was a man that Tia has 'idolised', and were shown CCTV footage of her final hours beside her killer.
The year-old was seen on her last journey chatting cheerfully with him as they shopped in the local supermarket. While on remand at Belmarsh Prison, Hazell told guards that Tia had broken her neck accidentally falling down the stairs. But pathologists were unable to find any evidence of a broken neck or skull fracture consistent with dying from a fall.
When Tia was reported missing, Hazell told her family and police that he had seen her leaving his house to meet a friend. He is certain to receive a life sentence but the judge will have to decide the minimum number of years he will be kept behind bars. Hazell claimed Tia was his 'golden girl' and 'like my own daughter' but spun a web of lies during police search while her body was hidden in his loft.
Stuart Hazell's guilty plea comes after months of lies about Tia Sharp's final movements. During the week-long hunt for the then missing schoolgirl, Hazell, 37, a convicted drug dealer, denied abducting her, saying she was 'like my own daughter'.
He said at the time: 'My previous has got nothing to do with it. Did I do anything to Tia? He described Tia as 'a happy-go-lucky golden angel' and said there had been no problems at her 'loving home' before she vanished. Hazell said he and Tia had been alone at the home he shared with Christine in south London on the Thursday night and Friday morning when she disappeared.
On the Friday, he said, she left the house at She did not take her mobile phone, which was charging, or a travel card and had no bag when she left. Both wore white 'Find Tia' T-shirts and a large picture of the schoolgirl was pinned to the wall behind them. Hazell said he felt people were 'pointing the finger' at him because he had been the last person to see her.
Hazell said: 'I know deep down in my heart that Tia walked out of my house. What happened after that. I don't know. Met Police apologises to Tia's family after her body was missed in sweep of her killer's loft claiming 'early searches were just a look round'. The officer in charge of the hunt today apologised for his force's incompetence and admitted that the first two searches were 'really just a look round'.
He apologised for not finding the year-old's body earlier, but said that if she had been discovered it 'would not have made any difference' to her fate. Hazell is due to be sentenced tomorrow, having changed his plea after months of protesting his innocence. A police constable first went into the loft on August 4, climbing up on a stool balanced on a chair. He said: 'I was searching for a missing girl and from what I could see the loft seemed very clear. I thought, "She is not hiding in here.
The following day a specialist team came in, and one officer said he would have recognised the smell of a decomposing body if it had been apparent. His colleague said he took about 25 minutes to search the loft, including moving around black bags which the team believed were too light to contain anything significant.
Later, a search dog was brought to the house in New Addington, South London, and indicated that there was something above one of the bedrooms, but the animal was too large to take into the loft so the officers ignored the warning. On August 10 a detective noticed the smell of decomposition in the house, which Ms Bicknell mistakenly thought was cat faeces. Another dog also indicated that something might be in the loft of the house, and Tia's body was found during a more thorough search.
Hazell was obsessed with child porn and had relationships with grandmother, mother and 'committed a significant sexual offence against granddaughter Tia'. Stuart Hazell was a pornography addict who downloaded sexually explicit pictures of children before he killed Tia Sharp. The year-old was particularly looking for images of girls who looked like Tia, it has been revealed, and was caught with 'extensive pornography' on a memory card which he had tried to hide from police.
He had also filmed the year-old while she slept, and captured a video of her as she rubbed cream into her legs. This morning Hazell pleaded guilty to Tia's murder, saying her family had 'suffered enough', after protesting his innocence for months. When her body was found in his attic, Hazell's DNA was on her clothes and Tia's blood was found on his belt, leading the prosecution to accuse him of sexually assaulting her before her death. The schoolgirl's killer had previously been in relationships with both her mother and her grandmother.
Hazell first met Tia's grandmother Christine Bicknell around or , when she was working as a barmaid at a pub in Merton, South London. He then had a relationship with her daughter Natalie Sharp, Tia's mother, but it lasted no more than a couple of weeks. Hazell started seeing Ms Sharp in April , and a month later moved into her house in New Addington. Around the time of Tia's death her killer took to Google to look up pornographic pictures of young girls, police discovered after searching his house following his arrest last August.
He apparently sought out images of girls who looked especially like Tia, wearing glasses and having their hair in a ponytail. Hazell was obsessed with paedophile websites, and apparently acted out his fantasies by taking pictures of Tia, the granddaughter of his then girlfriend Christine Bicknell.
Police found 11 photographs and three video clips showing the girl sleeping on two memory cards hidden in his home. At least one of the cards had been stashed in the doorway of a cupboard.
Police said they believed he had removed the bathroom door so he could spy on the girl, and modified the light socket in her room to create a 'spyhole'. The most shocking image was taken after the schoolgirl's death, according to the prosecution.
It showed Tia naked lying on a bed, and was captured a few hours after she died for Hazell's 'sexual excitement', prosecutor Andrew Edis QC said during the trial. He 'committed a significant sexual offence' against her before suffocating her and hiding her body in Ms Bicknell's attic.
Ms Sharp fled from the Old Bailey courtroom in tears when the footage of her daughter was shown to jurors. Hazell had also collected images of young girls being abused, and visited a site devoted to glorifying incest. Forensic analysis of his mobile phone records showed that he had been looking up child pornography via Google. Tia Sharp death: Accused Stuart Hazell 'took photo of dead girl'. The man accused of murdering schoolgirl Tia Sharp took a photograph of the naked year-old dead on her bed, the Old Bailey has heard.
Stuart Hazell, the former boyfriend of Tia's grandmother, allegedly had a sexual attraction to the schoolgirl, a jury was told.
Her body was found in the loft of her grandmother's south London house last August, a week after she went missing. Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC showed jurors an image of a child alleged to be Tia, although the girl's face cannot be seen, on her bed at her grandmother's house. He said it seemed sensible to suggest she had died after that time, and told the court the photograph of her allegedly dead on the bed was taken at BST at the earliest - more likely at about BST that day.
A pathologist who examined the body, as well as the photograph, said marks on Tia's body suggested she had been moved after she died, and "posed" into the position seen in the photograph, Mr Edis said. He told the jury: "The prosecution case is that Stuart Hazell had a sexual attraction for Tia Sharp, that there was some form of sexual assault, something of that kind, and that was the reason he killed her. The court heard two memory cards were found in the house, one in the kitchen and one, hidden on top of a doorframe, which contained "extensive pornography" featuring young girls.
There were also three video clips of Tia sleeping in her bedroom and 11 still images of her sleeping. Another image showed a young girl lying naked on Tia's bed, and there were "professional" pornographic images of young girls performing sex acts, the jury heard. Mr Edis said internet history on Mr Hazell's phone showed searches of a website that was popular with paedophiles.
He said Mr Hazell had also visited a pornographic website on 6 August - while Tia's body was in the loft. Mr Edis told jurors they will have to decide whether Mr Hazell is guilty of murder, or whether Tia died in an accident. He warned them they will find some of the evidence in the trial, which is expected to last nearly three weeks, "distressing". Mr Edis told the jury the loft had been inspected by police twice before Tia's body was found.
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