[187], The marriage between Capp's parents was marred by frequent arguments. [181][n 13], Following his arrest, several former girlfriends and sexual partners stated that Huntley presented himself as a charming and considerate man in the early stages of a relationship, but would become domineering and violent upon having established control. Ten years after the murders, in 2012, Hollys parents Kevin and Nicola Wells opened up about the death of their daughter for the first time, via the Daily Mail. [24] Weeping, Huntley admitted responsibility for both deaths, but repeated his insistence that both deaths had been accidental. [222][223], In April 2007, Huntley confessed to having sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl he had dragged into an orchard in 1997. The couple married at Grimsby Register Office on 28 January 1995. Each of these girls was at least one year younger than himself; none of these relationships lasted longer than a few weeks. Miss ya! I wish I could see her now, see what shed have looked like, he is quoted as telling RadioTimes in 2012 , prior to having his own kids. Staff initially feared Huntley might die as a result of this overdose,[124] but he was returned to his prison cell within 48 hours. [165], In 1990, Huntley finished his schooling, obtaining five GCSE passes. Speaking previously to the Radio Times, Oliver admitted that he thinks about his sister often. Huntley saw the girls and lured them back to his house on the pretence that their teaching assistant Maxine Carr, his girlfriend was also at the house. Investigators located and seized this vehicle from a caravan park in Wentworth on 7 August; this lead also proved fruitless. Both services were held at St Andrew's parish church and officiated by Tim Alban Jones, and the girls were buried in adjacent graves in Soham's Fordham Road Cemetery, following ceremonies attended by only family and close friends. Holly Wells Parents & Ethnicity:- Holly Wells was a 10 years old school girl who was kidnapped alongside her friend Jessica Chapman by a school caretaker Ian Huntley. [230], At least a dozen women have been falsely identified as being Carr and either persecuted or physically attacked due to false stories speculating as to her whereabouts and new identity which have been printed in tabloid publications. [118] Carr only severed contact with Huntley in December 2002. [174] Furthermore, both Huntley and Carr are known to have conducted affairs throughout their relationship. Huntley denies murdering the two girls and Carr, a former classroom assistant at . [239], The inquiry also severely criticised Humberside Police for deleting information relating to the previous criminal allegations against Huntley, and also criticised Cambridgeshire Police for not following standard vetting guidelines. On August 17, police arrested Ian Huntley and his girlfriend, Maxine Carr, for the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. [241], The Bichard inquiry recommended a mandatory registration scheme for people working with children and vulnerable adults such as the elderly and mentally handicapped. [82], In his opening statement on behalf of the Crown, prosecutor Richard Latham QC described the last day of the friends' lives and how, by "pure chance", they had happened to pass by Huntley's home at a time when Carr was not present. [59], On 16 August, twelve days after the children's disappearance, Huntley and Carr were first questioned by police. Ian Huntley was found guilty of their murders and sentenced to life in prison. [136], On 1 December, Huntley testified before the court in his defence. Almost two weeks after Holly and Jessica went missing, their bodies were found - dumped in a ditch and badly burned. Responding to questioning from her defence counsel, Michael Hubbard QC, Carr briefly discussed her initial acquaintance with Huntley, their subsequent relationship and plans to start a family once they both obtained financial stability before Hubbard directed his questioning toward her return to Soham on 6 August and her discovering Huntley had recently washed their bedding and had evidently cleaned sections of the house. It was one, almost two years before we found each other again, but grief gives you a different sense of the passage of time and it slipped by unnoticed.. Holly's parents moved out of the home where she had spent her last day, enjoying a family barbeque with best friend Jessica, who had rushed . Had they done so, they would have discovered an outstanding burglary charge on file relating to his November 1995 arrest for this crime. [192], In February 1999, Huntley met 22-year-old Maxine Carr in a Grimsby nightclub. Jessica Chapmans parents, Leslie and Sharon, have rarely spoken publicly about the murder. Or if somebody's got them, just let them go. [153] The results of this inquiry were published that June.[237]. Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Connie Booth. "[143], Questioned about the efforts she had made to mislead both police and the media to divert suspicion from her partner, Carr emphasised she had only lied to police, the media and "anyone who asks" to protect Huntley, who had repeatedly assured her of his innocence of any wrongdoing and his fear of being "fitted up"[144] by police for the girls' disappearance should they discover the 1998 rape allegation made against him. Shortly thereafter, she and her daughters moved to the village of Keelby. One of the issues scrutinised by the Bichard report surfaced almost immediately when Humberside Police stated their belief that it was unlawful under the Data Protection Act to hold data regarding criminal allegations which had not led to a conviction; this claim was criticised by other police forces who thought this too strict an interpretation of the Act. [82], In a reference to Huntley's claims both girls' deaths had been accidental, Latham stated that "only one person knows what happened" after the friends entered his home. His fingerprints were recovered from the bin. Available Until: 05 September 2026. 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,[1] who subsequently murdered the childrenlikely via asphyxiationbefore disposing of their bodies in an irrigation ditch close to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. Episode 2 of Soham: The Murder of Holly & Jessica airs tonight (March 10) on Channel 5 at 9pm. We have her pictures in and around the house, but its not a shrine we dont live in the past.. 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. Additional Score Recordings by TOM BAILEY JOHN WITT CHAPMAN. The families of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman yesterday paid their last respects to their beautiful 'Soham Roses' at separate private services in the Cambridgeshire town. Capp and her older sister, Hayley (born 1967), were largely raised by their mother and grandparents. [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. [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. 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. He was never charged with this offence, but subsequently confessed to this attack in April 2007. Soham is a small town and civil parish located in the east of the university city Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. [53], In July 2002, Carr applied for a vacant full-time teaching assistant position at St Andrew's Primary School. He was again the target of physical and verbal bullying at this school, but did form a few friendships via a shared interest in computer games. [163] Huntley also enjoyed football, and was an avid supporter of Manchester United. [14] His employers helped him to get the tenancy of 5 College Close,[208] and he and Carr moved to Soham in late September. Between 1992 and 2002, he had committed many acts of physical and sexual violence against women and children for which he had been unpunished. This vehicle was last seen turning into the Studlands Park housing estate. Maxine Carr is found not guilty of helping Ian Huntley in relation to the deaths of the girls but guilty of lying to the police about what happened. [162] The bullying Huntley endured escalated when he entered Healing Comprehensive School aged 11, resulting in his academic performance waning. Here is a timetable of the main events in the search for missing 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Score Editors CHRIS BARRETT ADAM MILLER . 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. [213], On 3 April 2004, the three-bedroomed house in College Close in which the murders occurred was demolished and the site levelled, with all rubble from the property being discarded in various undisclosed locations. Local Search Options. [166] He also viewed himself as something of a ladies' man, and was scrupulous about his personal appearance and personal hygiene. [69] However, prior to his trial, a criminal profile had resulted in his being ruled by an eminent criminal psychologist as a "latent, predatory paedophile"[175] who had lured Wells and Chapman into his home in a moment of opportunism. Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr are taken in to help police with their enquiries, He then outlined the details of how Keith Pryer and his two friends had discovered the bodies on 17 August[131] at a location Huntley had known from his plane-spotting hobby and where they were unlikely to be discovered. Mark Tuck informed investigators that as he had driven past the girls on Sand Street in Soham town centre at approximately 6:30p.m. on 4 August,[44] his attention had been drawn toward their Manchester United replica shirts, causing him to remark to his wife, Lucy: "Look! Wed, 17 Dec, 2003 - 13:00. We had a flood. [191] By the age of 15, Capp weighed more than 10 stones (63 kg), resulting in her being bullied by her classmates. Her age was 10 years at the time of her tragic death. The murder took its toll on their marriage for a while, the pair have admitted. MAXINE Carr became one of Britain's most reviled women after she provided Ian Huntley with an alibi for the Soham murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, 20 years ago. But where are Holly & Jessicas families now? On June 16, 2003, Ian Huntly pleaded not guilty to the formal charges accusing him of murdering Holly and Jessica . [235], Immediately after Huntley's conviction, previous criminal allegations against him were made public. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both 10, were killed by Huntley after they went missing following a BBQ in Soham, Cambridgeshire, on 4 August 2002. [127], The trial of Huntley for the murders of Wells and Chapman opened at the Old Bailey on 5 November 2003 before Mr Justice Alan Moses; Huntley was charged with two counts of murder, to which he entered a plea of not guilty. OLIVER KOUMBAS JOANNE LEES TAMZIN LILLYWHITE JADE LITTLE . Holly wouldve been an auntie to her brothers children. [5][6], At 11:45a.m. on Sunday, 4 August 2002, Jessica Chapman left her home in Brook Street, Soham, to attend a barbecue at the home of her best friend, Holly Wells, in nearby Redhouse Gardens. Ant and Dec drop huge hint SM:TV could be returning to our screens. Holly was buried yesterday after a service at St Andrew's Church in Soham, Cambridgeshire.Sep 4, 2002 Huntley killed Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, each 10 years outdated, in Soham, England, in August 2002. Then we could have stopped them, or done something about it. Holly Marie Wells and her Best Friend Jessica Aimee Chapman went Missing on 4th August 2002 as they were walking along a Street in Soham, England. In reference to the evident extensive cleaning of the house's interior, Huntley stated: "Excuse the dining room. "[82] In reference to Carr's attempts to pervert the course of justice, Latham stated that "as surely as night follows day" the two had conspired to concoct a false alibi to divert suspicion from Huntley,[82] but warned the jury Carr could only be convicted of assisting an offender if they believed she had known Huntley had murdered the girls, adding that her motive for providing lies to police with reference to the charge of perverting the course of justice was irrelevant. 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. It was a job she returned to in the years following her daughters murder. [14], At the urging of his father, Huntley joined the Air Training Corps at age 13. [200] Shortly thereafter, the couple moved to a ground-floor flat in Scunthorpe, where Huntley formally proposed to Carr in June 1999. [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. He applied for and secured employment as a senior caretaker at this secondary school in September 2001, supervising the work of four other employees. The two photogenic 10-year-olds were the very model of typical children growing up in a "safe", quiet, English town. [4], The search for Holly and Jessica in the thirteen days of their disappearance has been described as one of the most intense and extensive in British criminal history. Nicola and Kevin Wells are the parents of Holly, who was murdered along with her best friend on August 4 2002. In 2015 it was reported that Nicola and Kevin had moved back into the home that held so many precious memories of their beloved daughter. PARENTS of pupils at an Ulster primary school are petrified that a "Holly and Jessica" - style tragedy could strike . [15][16] Chapman's Nokia 6110 mobile phone was switched off at 6:46p.m.[17][1][18], At 8:00p.m., Nicola Wells entered her daughter's bedroom to invite the girls to say goodbye to her house guests, only to discover both children were missing. [24] A cover from the rear seat was missing, and the lining of the boot had been recently removed and replaced with an ill-fitting section of household carpet. Grief does not diminish, but you can manage the intensity and learn to live with it.. "[69][n 8], By the second week of the children's disappearance, Huntley had begun to lose weight and was displaying visible symptoms of insomnia. [29] Over 260 registered sex offenders across the UK - including 15 high-risk paedophiles - were also questioned; all were eliminated from the investigation. [183] Huntley severely restricted and supervised any contact she held with her family or social acquaintances. Huntley was given two life sentences by the judge.

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