Now, almost 20 years on, Channel 5 tonight (March 10) continues its documentary series Soham: The Murder of Holly & Jessica. [30] Police also investigated the possibility that the girls had arranged to meet someone they had contacted via an internet chat room, but this was soon ruled out. Chaired by Sir Michael Bichard, the Bichard inquiry opened on 13 January 2004. [147], Referencing Huntley's likely motive for the murders and his claims at trial that both deaths had been accidental, Latham stated: "We invite you to reject the accounts of both deaths [being accidental] as desperate lies; the only way out for him. [50], In July 1998, police were notified that Huntley had sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl in September 1997, having also threatened to kill the child if she informed her mother. [59], On 16 August, twelve days after the children's disappearance, Huntley and Carr were first questioned by police. [61] In this live interview, Carr corroborated Huntley's claims to have conversed with the children on their doorstep as she had been bathing before both girls had walked away from their doorstep, adding: "I only wish we had asked them where they were going if only we knew then what we know now. We suggest that this whole business in the house was motivated by something sexual. That involved at all costs protecting Ian Huntley. Soham: The Murder of Holly and Jessica 1/2 - True Crime DocumentaryTwo girls go missing from a Cambridge town in August of 2002, leaving their community reel. Staff initially feared Huntley might die as a result of this overdose,[124] but he was returned to his prison cell within 48 hours. e-mail; 18. shares. [24] One of these officers observed three vertical scratches on Huntley's left jaw, each measuring approximately three centimetres (1.2in), which he claimed had been recently inflicted by his dog. [47], The following evening, a jogger alerted police to two mounds of recently disturbed earth he had seen at Warren Hill, just outside Newmarket. 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The court also heard the reading of statements from the families of the Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, who Mr Huntley is accused of murdering. [207][n 16] No background check was conducted before or after this job interview,[108] and although Huntley lacked extensive experience in this form of employment, his application for this position was successful. Testimony from Carr had indicated her suspicions sexual activity had occurred in their home in her absence as, although Huntley had insisted throughout their relationship that Carr perform all domestic chores, she noticed that he had washed the quilts, pillow cases and sheets of their bed in her absence. [152] On 17 December 2003, they returned a majority verdict of guilty on two counts of murder against Huntley. 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[76] The Reverend Tim Alban Jones officiated at this service, saying: "Would not the best and most lasting memorial to these two lovely young girls be a change for the better in how we behave towards each other? [19] Following subsequent frantic efforts by the families of both girls to locate their daughters, Wells and Chapman were reported missing by their parents at 9:55p.m.[20], Police immediately launched an intensive search for the missing children. [80] He was charged with these offences while detained for observation at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire, and all preliminary hearings against him were postponed until the conclusion of his mental health assessment. Here is a timetable of the main events in the search for missing 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Head to our Facebook page @EntertainmentDailyFix and tell us what you think of our story. [197] She later legally changed her surname to Carr in an apparent effort to distance herself from her father. [14], At the urging of his father, Huntley joined the Air Training Corps at age 13. The jury accepted her insistence that she had only lied to the police and media in order to protect Huntley because, prior to their arrest, she had believed his claims of innocence. To one colleague, Capp would talk incessantly about her dreams of leaving this employment and embarking on a teaching career. Produced In Association With Silver Screen Partners III and MTM Enterprises, Inc. "The Roger Rabbit's Little OddParents". He was just six years old at the time of his sisters murder. For the first five months after Holly died we broke down together, but after that we processed our grief at different speeds. [81], The inquest into the children's deaths was held at Shire Hall, Cambridge, on 23 August 2002. [175] The criminal charge was dropped a week later after the Crown Prosecution Service, having examined CCTV footage from the nightclub and environs and finding evidence of the two socialising within the nightclub, determined insufficient evidence existed to secure a conviction for this offence. The couple married at Grimsby Register Office on 28 January 1995. 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[203] He soon found new employment at a finance company in Binbrook while Carr maintained her employment packing fish at a local fish processing factory. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were best friends. His activities with this youth organisation fuelled an interest he had held since childhood for aeroplanes, and he seriously considered a future career with the Royal Air Force. [108] This left police with no option but to refer Huntley to a mental hospital to undergo an extensive psychological evaluation. [222][223], In April 2007, Huntley confessed to having sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl he had dragged into an orchard in 1997. This admissionin which Huntley also confessed to having a sexual interest in children while insisting the murders of Wells and Chapman had not been sexually motivatedwas welcomed by the victim of this sexual assault. The Soham murders were a double child murder committed in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England on 4 August 2002.The victims were two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman, who were lured into the home of a local resident and school caretaker, Ian Kevin Huntley, who subsequently murdered the childrenlikely via asphyxiationbefore disposing of their bodies in an .