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. It has been moved up and then across within the loft space. He said the girl's body had been "carefully wrapped" in a sheet first and then bin bags, before being sealed with tape.
Mr Hazell denies killing the schoolgirl between 2 August and 10 August, when her body was found. The partner of Tia Sharp's grandmother has been arrested on suspicion of murdering the year-old, the Metropolitan Police said. Tia, 12, was reported missing last Friday sparking a huge search effort.
A murder investigation was launched after police searching for Tia found a body. They are yet to formally identify the body but the family has been informed. Earlier, Met Commander Neil Basu said there had been four searches at the property in the past week, two with sniffer dogs, including a search of the girl's bedroom.
Tia's uncle David Sharp, her grandmother and Mr Hazell had all made appeals to find the schoolgirl. She was said to have gone missing after leaving the house for the Whitgift shopping centre in Croydon at about midday last Friday to buy flip-flops. Since the news of the body's discovery, several people have laid tributes for the girl near a garage close to her grandmother's house, which still has a cordon in place on the approach to it.
In tributes the schoolgirl was described as "Addington's Angel" while another message on a flower bouquet said "Justice will be served". Another message from several people who joined in the search for Tia read: "We searched so hard to find you. Up to 80 police officers have been involved in the search for Tia and more than hours of CCTV footage has been gathered from the local area including trams and buses.
Earlier this week about people helped police search an area of woodland known as Birchwood not far from the house. Mr Basu said: "Our priority is to support the family of Tia at this distressing time and identify the body, which has been discovered, as quickly as possible.
The body was discovered within hours of the area near the house being cordoned off at about noon on Friday. He added: "The police have yet to formally confirm that the body is Tia's, yet this devastating development will come as a huge blow to her family and the community in New Addington, all of whom have worked tirelessly to try to find her over the past week. Police searching for the missing schoolgirl Tia Sharp have found a body in her grandmother's south London home.
The Metropolitan Police said the body was found following a search of the property in New Addington, Croydon, earlier. Police are seeking Stuart Hazell, 37, the partner of Tia's grandmother Christine Sharp, and have asked people to call rather than approach him. Commander Neil Basu, of the Met, said the property had been searched three previous times in the past week and the latest search was carried out with the "full co-operation" of the family.
He said: "Our priority is to support the family of Tia at this distressing time and identify the body, which has been discovered, as quickly as possible. He added: "Our priority now is to establish the facts of this case and to assist us with this, we are keen to speak to all those people who last saw Tia.
In particular, we want to trace Stuart Hazell as a matter of urgency. Officers had cordoned off the area around the house at about noon to carry out a forensic search, which the Met had said could take up to two days. Earlier, officers with a police dog spent about 30 minutes in the house. Tia's uncle, grandmother and Mr Hazell had all made appeals to find the schoolgirl. It is understood she regularly visited her grandmother's house and was believed to have been at the property alone with Mr Hazell on the night before she disappeared.
Mr Hazell, who said he was not the last person to see the girl after she left the house, was questioned by police on Wednesday, but then released. He claimed Tia set off for the Whitgift shopping centre in Croydon last Friday to buy flip-flops, having spent Thursday night alone with him while her grandmother was at work.
His sister, Sarah Parrat, said she did not believe her brother was involved and suspected "he is probably in a pub somewhere trying to get his head around it". Alston Millington, 32, who lives nearby, said: "It is such sad news. I live just around the corner and can't believe it.
Following Tia's disappearance, a Facebook campaign was launched to find her and about people helped police search a woodland near the house. Before officers sealed the house earlier on Friday to carry out a search, Mrs Sharp was seen to leave the property with police in plain clothes. At the time she said the missing girl's mother, Natalie, was "in bits" and that she did not know where she was as "she needed to get away".
She said all family members had done their "own little separate bit" to help in the search, including Mr Hazell, but she did not know where he was. Mrs Sharp also added: "He knows the finger has been pointed at him. Referring to the finger being pointed at him, he said: "Well, if they believe what they read in the papers, they can believe whatever they like because I know deep down in my heart that Tia walked out of my house, she walked out of there.
Asked about his history, he replied: "Everyone's got a shady past. My previous has nothing to do with it. Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell praised the support offered to the family and said the discovery of the body was "a huge blow". Up to 80 police officers have been involved in the search for Tia, and more than hours of CCTV footage has been gathered from the local area, trams and buses. Since then officers found no trace of her.
Police have said they are concerned about a year-old girl who has not been seen since Friday afternoon. Tia Sharp left her grandmother's home in New Addington, south London, heading for the Whitgift shopping centre in Croydon town centre. Police said she only has a small amount of money and did not take her travel card or her mobile phone.
They added her disappearance is out of character and are appealing for help in finding her. The clothing she was last seen wearing is described as a yellow bandeau top, light grey leopard print leggings and black and pink Nike high top trainers. She is known to frequent the Croydon, Mitcham and Wimbledon areas of south London. This was his way of prolonging the enjoyment. And insert things into his anus. Thankfully, Christine is cleared of having any involvement and is released.
Hazell, now 37, protests his innocence. Many of his family and friends stick by him as most of the country turns against him. Hazell writes to his dad. He lies to him as well saying the death was accidental.
That person standing in the dock was cold, horrible, black, dark, and stood there like he had done nothing wrong. I think He accepts his guilt. I believe he changed his plea because he was a coward. It was the stage of the trial where he would have to go to the witness stand and give his account of what happened and, more importantly, be cross examined.
He never had the courage to stand up and face those questions. You took that life from her All that lay ahead of her — a career, loves and family of her own — will now never be. The Murder of Tia Sharp. Crime Files. The Crime. The Investigation. The Arrest. The Trial. Christine, Natalie and Tia will become more like friends than family to each other. Keri Nixon, Forensic Psychologist That year, Hazell is also convicted for a racially aggravated common assault.
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Jump directly to the content. Sign in. All Football. Hazell had tried to hide one of the memory sticks on the top of a door frame at his home, the court heard. After Tia was killed, he tried to create the lie that she had run away from home. Tia's mother, Natalie Sharp, left the court visibly distressed as the prosecution opened the case against Hazell — who denies murder. She remained outside court when the jury was shown the last image taken by Hazell on his mobile phone — a picture he then copied to his camera and was found stored on one of the memory cards.
The photograph was of a naked, prepubescent girl, whom the prosecution said was Tia Sharp, lying on her bed at her grandmother's home in New Addington, Croydon. There is blood visible on the bedding in the photograph, and in the corner of the picture the hand of one of the girl's dolls can be seen. The photograph was taken after Tia's death between 3am — 6am on 3 August last year and had been posed by Hazell, the prosecution said.
There was some form of sexual assault, and that was the reason he killed her.
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