Murder Girl (Lilah Love)

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a b Morris, Steven (18 November 2003). "Huntley's Question to Police: Am I a Suspect?". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 November 2019. By 20 August, investigators had established sufficient physical evidence from Huntley's home, vehicle and Soham Village College to charge him with two counts of murder. [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. [113] Carr was also charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice on this date. [114] [n 11] She was further charged with two counts of assisting an offender on 17 January 2003. [23]

At a preliminary hearing at the Old Bailey on 16 June 2003, Huntley pleaded not guilty to the charges of murdering Wells and Chapman, and guilty to the charge both stood accused of: conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Carr pleaded not guilty to the charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice and assisting an offender. [126] Trial [ edit ] Gordon, Cathy (20 November 2003). "Old Bailey Jury Watches TV Interviews of Huntley and Carr". The Irish Examiner . Retrieved 29 March 2022. Kate’s body was found in a field which leads to Kinnerton Way and she would have gone down a country path and across two stiles to get there." Yates, Nathan (2005). Beyond Evil: Inside the Twisted Mind of Ian Huntley. John Blake Publishing. ISBN 1844541428.

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Over the course of three days, Latham outlined the efforts of both defendants to divert suspicion away from Huntley, and Huntley's own efforts to destroy all physical and circumstantial evidence linking him to the crime, [24] but despite these efforts, investigators had retrieved enough evidence to show the children had been murdered within his home and—within approximately twelve hours of their deaths—transported in his vehicle to the location where their bodies were discovered on 17 August. 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. [132] Latham then closed his statement by again bringing the jury's attention to Huntley's claim that both deaths had been accidental, remarking, "We pose this question: Two of them?" 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." [133]

The same evening, police conducted a thorough search of both 5 College Close and the grounds of Soham Village College where Huntley worked as a senior caretaker [100] as the couple remained under police watch at separate locations outside Soham. Each room of Huntley's home had evidently been recently and meticulously cleaned [101] with what was later described as being a "lemony" cleaning fluid, [102] but the search of the home revealed many items of "major importance" to the investigation. The evidence and artefacts were not made public at the time, but the items recovered from the school grounds included items of clothing the girls had been wearing when last seen; their charred and cut Manchester United shirts were recovered from a bin in a hangar at Huntley's place of work. [103] [n 9] Fibres recovered from these garments were a precise match to samples retrieved from Huntley's body and clothing, as well as from 5 College Close. His fingerprints were recovered from the bin. [24] Carr was also interviewed by the press during the second week of the search for the children. [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. Then we could have stopped them, or done something about it." [90] Holly Wells (left), pictured as a Soham Carnival Princess Attendant, 28 May 2001 Following the conclusion of both counsels' closing arguments, Mr Justice Moses announced the jury would begin their deliberations on 12 December. [146] Convictions [ edit ]a b c d e f g Stokes, Paul; Sapsted, David; Lightfoot, Liz (20 August 2002). "Rootless and Troubled Lives of Couple Suspected of Killing Holly and Jessica". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 1 November 2019. At 8:00p.m., Nicola Wells entered her daughter's bedroom to invite the girls to say goodbye to her guests, only to discover both children missing. Alarmed, she and her husband, Kevin, searched the house and nearby streets. Minutes after their daughter's 8:30p.m. curfew had expired, Nicola Wells phoned the Chapmans to ask if the girls were there, only to learn Leslie and Sharon Chapman were worried that their youngest daughter had not returned home. [19] Following frantic efforts by the families to locate their daughters, Wells and Chapman were reported missing by their parents at 9:55p.m. [20] Search and discovery [ edit ] It's the 25th anniversary of Melanie’s death. A Crimewatch special is shown. Seventy names are handed to police – none of which are Christopher Hampton.

a b "Abduction Linked to Soham Girls". Peterborough Telegraph. 13 August 2002 . Retrieved 22 November 2019. a b Judd, Terri (21 August 2002). "In a Secure Mental Unit, Huntley is Charged on Two Counts of Murder". The Independent. London.The senseless murder of a 15-year-old girl on her way to school is impossible to comprehend,” he said. “It was moving and humbling to meet many members of the exceptional Croydon community who have come together in support of a family now dealing with the most unimaginable grief.” There isn’t a day that goes past where my family and I don’t think of her, what life would be like if she hadn't been taken from us, what she would have achieved, and all the family milestones that we have been unable to include her in." Maxine Carr: What Happened to Ian Huntley's Girlfriend After the Soham Murders?". i. 26 May 2019 . Retrieved 29 October 2019.