By Donna Bowater 24 July 2012 7:00am. He then speculated Huntley's defence counsel may try and argue that he had been confused, commenting: "In that case, they would have to consider [Huntley's] behaviour over the fortnight between the girls' disappearance and their bodies being found. Where do Carole Middleton and Michael Middleton live? Holly Johnson, Brian Nash & Mark O'Toole. On 14 September 2005, while an inmate at HM Prison Wakefield, he was scalded with boiling water by convicted spree killer Mark Hobson. I was the last person to see them!" [168] The marriage was short-lived due to Huntley's volatile temper, which surfaced within days of their marriage. And soccer star David . Or if somebody's got them, just let them go. [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. [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. Nicola and Kevin Wells are the parents of Holly, who was murdered along with her best friend on August 4 2002. [82] As such, she was found not guilty of assisting an offender. [85][86], In the weeks following the disappearances, Huntley reluctantly[87] granted several television interviews to media outlets such as Sky News and the regional BBC News programme, BBC Look East, speaking of the general shock in the local community and his dismay at being the last person to see the children alive. In August 2002, Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells attended a family barbecue at Holly's house and after the barbecue they left Holly's home at around 6.15pm to buy sweets from the vending machine at . Miss ya! "[21], Concluding his questioning, Hubbard cautioned the jury not to succumb to the temptation of judging Carr's morality, but to consider her state of mind prior to her arrest when considering whether the lies she had told warranted any criminal liability, stating she had "done no wrong" on the date of the children's murder, and had not returned to Soham until 6 August. EVA REISTAD. [14], The prosecution contended at Huntley's trial that a likely sexual motive existed for the murders. [204][205], By 2001, Huntley had re-established contact with his father,[n 15] who worked as a school caretaker in Littleport, near Ely. Speaking 10 years after Ian Huntley murdered Holly and her friend Jessica Chapman, both 10, Nicola said: "We felt we were still young enough to raise another child. Their daughters best friends who were just 10 years old were murdered by Ian Huntley after he lured them back to his house in August 2002. [31], On 8 August,[32] CCTV footage of the girls, recorded minutes before their disappearance, was released to the public. In the summer of 2002, two 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, went missing from their home in Soham. [179] At the September 2005 hearing in which the minimum term Huntley should serve before any parole eligibility was decided, Mr Justice Moses stated: "There is a likelihood of [a] sexual motivation, but there was no evidence of sexual activity, and it remains no more than a likelihood. [39], On 12 August, police launched a media appeal to trace the driver of a four-door, dark green saloon car. Had they done so, they would have discovered an outstanding burglary charge on file relating to his November 1995 arrest for this crime. Maxine Carr, who was the girls teaching assistant, Hollys parents Kevin and Nicola Wells opened up about the death of their daughter, since the unimaginable death of their daughter, I wish I could see her now, see what shed have looked like, families dont suffer the same loss and heartbreak as we did. Their son Oliver and his partner Lydia Chambers had welcomed a baby called Ethan and were expecting their second child later that summer. Jessicas parents are Sharon and Leslie Chapman. Here is a timetable of the main events in the search for missing 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. He applied for and secured employment as a senior caretaker at this secondary school in September 2001, supervising the work of four other employees. As a result, he began rebuffing any offers to socialise with colleagues for fear of being attacked while alone in their company. [231][232][233][234], Shortly after her release from prison, Carr and her family contacted a Tyneside-based publishing company with view to publishing her autobiography. Christopher Clark, consultant forensic psychiatrist, reciting the conclusions of his assessment of Ian Huntley's mental state (2002)[121], Having been declared mentally fit to stand trial, Huntley was faced with a sentence of life imprisonment if a jury could be convinced of his guilt. From the moment Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are discovered missing (4th August 2002) every heart rending . "[90], Discussing the personalities of the girls, Carr described Wells as being the "more feminine" of the two, adding that Chapman was "more of a tomboy"[91] and that on one occasion, she had jokingly remarked to Chapman how, unlike many of her friends, she seldom wore a skirt. [149] Coward also contended the prosecution had failed to provide conclusive evidence to support their claim that Huntley's actual motive for the murders had been sexual. [92], On 3 December, Carr went into the witness box to testify in her own defence. [119], To determine Huntley's state of mental health, he was detained under Section 48 of the Mental Health Act for almost two months at Rampton Secure Hospital. Ian Huntley worked as a caretaker at the school both girls attended. [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. For the first five months after Holly died we broke down together, but after that we processed our grief at different speeds. While returning to 4 Redhouse Gardens,[11] Wells and Chapman walked past the College Close home of Ian Huntley, the senior caretaker at the local secondary school. 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They briefly moved out of the family home where she spent her last day, though. RMG6JATP - The parents of murdered Soham schoolchildren Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, from left, Leslie and Sharon Chapman and Kevin and Nicola Wells, arrive at the Old Bailey in London, where the prosecution is expected to outline its case at the trial of Ian Huntley and his former girlfriend Maxine Carr. However, ten years after their daughters death, they gave a statement in support of police plans to create a national database for sex offenders. He revealed: She was lost in a kind of wilderness whereas I was more hard-line about my emotions. [3] She received a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for conspiring with Huntley to pervert the course of justice. [15], Within days of Huntley's formal sentencing, he reflected to the media on the prospect of spending the remainder of his life behind bars and of his fears for his security, exclaiming: "I'm going to rot inside this place. THE shocking hidden truth about the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman is revealed by the News of the World in a sensational taped dossier. "[79], An online book of condolence attracted more than 31,000 messages of grief and sympathy[80] and on 24 August, football clubs across Britain held a minute's silence before games. When it was revealed that they had moved back into the family home, Nicola and Kevin also shared the news that they had become grandparents. [186], As a child and adolescent, Capp was viewed by her peers as a timid outcast, with few friends. Three of them were aged 15, and one 13. The two photogenic 10-year-olds were the very model of typical children growing up in a "safe", quiet, English town. In what Huntley had believed would be his posthumous confession, he claims to have confessed to having murdered both girls to Carr prior to their arrest and his plans to confess to authorities, to which, Huntley alleged, Carr had slapped his face and informed him to "pull [himself] together" as she did not wish to lose the teaching position she had yearned for all her life. Huntley would later inform investigators that he had waited for nightfall before opting to drive to RAF Lakenheath to dispose of the girls' bodies. [78] This service was attended by about 2,000 people, including the girls' classmates, teachers and the six family liaison officers who had provided 24-hour service for both families. [48] The initial speculation by the jogger had been that these mounds of earth might have been the burial locations of the two missing girls. [187], The marriage between Capp's parents was marred by frequent arguments. [180] The youngest girl Huntley is known to have raped was 12 years old, with another girl he had attempted to rape being 11. They were determined to be among the five per cent of couples who stay together after losing a child to murder. He eventually started his new job months later. [189], By the time Capp entered adolescence, she was slightly overweight, leading her to become insecure about her physical appearance. [241], The Bichard inquiry recommended a mandatory registration scheme for people working with children and vulnerable adults such as the elderly and mentally handicapped. Original Songs by: Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Will Jennings, Robert Folk, Iwao Takamoto. Immediately on seeing the corpses, Lawrence turned to his girlfriend, Helen Sawyer, and shouted: "Don't come any closer, Helen! [152] On 17 December 2003, they returned a majority verdict of guilty on two counts of murder against Huntley. [14] Pathological evidence retrieved from the bodies indicating at least one of the girls had been subjected to a sexual assault either before or after her murder was not disclosed to the jury at Huntley's trial. She found out on 23 July that her application had been unsuccessful. To these questions, Carr explained that her first impression had been that Huntley had "had a woman in the house", adding their bedding had been washed shortly before 4 August. Her age was 10 years at the time of her tragic death. [172] One of these girls would become pregnant at age 15,[166] and gave birth to a baby girl in 1998. Locals would rally around the families of the girls and dedicate hours of their time searching for them . And the intensity of your grief does diminish as the years pass., He added: Grief Encounter helped us learn how to manage our grief and that is why I will never stop supporting this charity.. [167], In June 1994, Huntley began dating 18-year-old Claire Evans, who he met through his employment at a local Heinz factory. On August 17 2002, residents flocked to St Andrew's church to await . Its strange being three of us when there used to be a fourth.. School caretaker Ian Huntley is currently serving a prison sentence for the young girls' murder. This had included fibre evidence retrieved from Huntley's vehicle, clothes and carpets which had been a "precise match" to the Manchester United shirts the girls had been wearing at the time of their disappearance. August 4th, 2002: Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, wearing red Manchester United shirts, go missing from their homes in Soham, Cambridgeshire, eastern England, after last being seen at a family .