A former friend of Zoe Warren - given a life sentence for the cold-blooded murder of her partner - has revealed how the addict used men to get her hands on drink and drugs. 
The 20-year-old killed partner Mark Shaw before taking to Facebook and pretending to be shocked by his death. 
Glammed-up party girl Warren looked a far cry from her profile picture in her police mugshot, and a former pal has said her law-abiding family has been left in despair by her actions.
The friend told ChronicleLive : “She just liked to take advantage of people. She would just use her body to get what she wanted. Now I just think; ‘What a waste of a life that’s been’.” 
Mark was murdered by Warren and her accomplice Keiran Adey in a merciless and sustained attack at his home, during which he was tied up, gagged, beaten, bitten and stabbed, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
A former friend has claimed Zoe Warren regularly used men to get what she wanted 
He had been beaten so badly he was left looking like the “elephant man”, with 86 injuries to virtually every area of his body and when his corpse was found, his jeans and boxer shorts had been pulled down in one apparent final act of humiliation.
The female killer claimed to have been in a relationship with her 29-year-old victim, but Mark’s family say this is a lie, and his real girlfriend was pregnant with his daughter when he died.
And in a failed rouse to cover-up her sickening crime, the 20-year-old took to Facebook to express her fake grief and heartache, pretending she had just learned her partner was dead.
Keiran Adey was also convicted of the horrific murder 
Warren grew-up in the Oxclose area of Washington. She was one of two children in a respectable law-abiding family.
But while her parents’ other child did well at school and went to college, Zoe chose a different path, her former friend revealed.
“She had a normal up-bringing,” he said, “Her mother and father are decent members of society. When she got into drugs they didn’t want her under their roof, so she went to live with her Nana, but then her Nana kicked her out.”
By the age of 16, Warren was a heavy drinker and regular drug-user, often shoplifting from off-licences to feed her habits.
Amphetamines, otherwise known as speed or whizz, was her drug of choice. And the man said she would do anything to get her hands on it.
“If you had drink or drugs on you, she would be there to help you drink or sniff them,” he said. “But she never bought it herself.
She posted a tribute on Facebook trying to deflect suspicion away from herself 
“If you were taking drugs with her she was alright to be around. She’s never had a job. She was constantly running out of shops with bottles of wine.”
The friend claimed Warren took advantage of the men she knew.
“She’s always got her make-up and that on. She never went anywhere without her make-up on because she looked vile without it,” he said.
“She spent a good two or three hours getting ready. It was lashes, makeup, hair...the full works. She never had any long term relationships. She would just move on to the next one.”
In court Warren, 20, blamed Adey, 19, for all of the violence while he admitted punching and biting Mark but insisted it was Warren who dealt the fatal blow with a knife.
The sneering killers had sought to blame each other for the murder in “cut-throat defence” cases but prosecutors said they were in it together.
Adey was in a rage over £5 Mark owed him and because he had told the police about him smashing his windows days earlier, while Warren was furious he had spent her last £10 on drugs.
Victim Mark Shaw was murdered by Zoe Warren and her friend Keiran Adey 
So they both inflicted gruesome violence which shocked the village of Grange Villa, in County Durham, in the week before Christmas last year.
Now Warren, of Chipchase, Washington and Adey, of Queen Street, Grange Villa, have been jailed for life and must serve at least 17 years each behind bars, after being convicted of murder.
Warren was also convicted of witness intimidation in relation to a letter sent from prison to a boyfriend who had told police she had confessed to taking part in the murder and joked about getting away with it.
Despite knowing of her wild lifestyle and disregard for others, Warren’s former friend admitted to the Chronicle that her was shocked he had once been close to a killer.

“She had a temper, but only to people who wouldn’t retaliate.” he said. “But there’s never been any violent offences that I know of.
“I think the worse she did was shoplifting.
“I was just shocked. I thought; ‘That’s not Zoe, it doesn’t seem like anything she was capable of doing.”