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Soham trial timeline

4 August, 2002

Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman go missing.

8 August, 2002

The police release CCTV pictures of the two girls.

16 August, 2002

The girls parents hold a news conference aimed at helping to find their children.

17 August, 2002

The bodies of the girls are found in a ditch at Lakenheath Suffolk. Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr are arrested.

20 August, 2002

Ian Huntley is charged with the two girls murder. Maxine Carr is charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

21 August, 2002

Maxine Carr is remanded to Holloway Prison.

8 October, 2002

Doctors deem Ian Huntley fit to stand trial.

16 April, 2003

Ian Huntley pleads not guilty to the murders. Maxine Carr pleads not guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

3 November, 2003

The trial of Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr begins at the Old Bailey.

4 November, 2003

Jury of seven women and five men selected and sworn in.

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5 November, 2003

Prosecution outlines its case alleging that Ian Huntley killed the girls in his home.

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6 November, 2003

The court hears that Ian Huntley sanitised his car the day after the girls went missing and that his hair was found on their clothes.

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10 November, 2003

The jury visits Soham to see some of the key locations in the case.

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11 November, 2003

The jurors are taken to see the ditch near Lakenheath air base where Holly and Jessicas bodies were found.

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12 November, 2003

Ian Huntley approached Holly Wellss father Kevin to offer his sympathy after she went missing the court hears.

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13 November, 2003

Ian Huntley knew a quiet area near Lakenheath close to where the girls were found a witness tells the court.

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14 November, 2003

The night the girls disappeared Ian Huntley told some people he had seen them but told others he had not the court hears.

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17 November, 2003

Ian Huntley seemed agitated and burst into tears when interviewed by police the court hears.

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18 November, 2003

Ian Huntley told a friend he believed the girls were dead three days after they went missing the Old Bailey is told.

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19 November, 2003

The jury hears Ian Huntley was interviewed by several journalists and told one Police think I did it.

20 November, 2003

A police witness describes the moment he found Holly and Jessicas clothes a discovery that led to Ian Huntleys arrest.

24 November, 2003

Ian Huntley admits cutting off Holly Wells and Jessica Chapmans clothes as their bodies lay in a ditch near Lakenheath.

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25 November, 2003

Ian Huntley says the girls died when Holly fell in the bath and then he put his hands over Jessicas mouth to stop her screaming.

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26 November, 2003

Ian Huntley was charged and aquitted of raping a girl in 1998 after which he had a breakdown the court hears.

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27 November, 2003

In witness statements read in court Maxine Carr said Ian Huntley told her he spoke to the girls but they then left his company.

28 November, 2003

The jury hears separate conversations between Ian Huntleys mother and the two accused.

1 December, 2003

The defence case begins with Ian Huntley giving evidence. He says he is responsible for the girls deaths but denies murder.

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2 December, 2003

Huntley admits he is responsible for the death of Jessica Chapman under cross examination.

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3 December, 2003

Maxine Carr testifies that she loved Ian Huntley but would not have covered up a murder for him.

4 December, 2003

Ms Carr sobs in the witness box as she tells how that thing Ian Huntley forced her to lie.

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5 December, 2003

The day was spent in legal argument without the jury present.

8 December, 2003

Trial adjourned until following day because a juror was ill.

9 December, 2003

Trial adjourned for a second day.

10 December, 2003

The prosecution and defence sum up their cases.

11 December, 2003

Carrs defence closing speech ends and the judge begins summing up.

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12 December, 2003

The judge tells the jury to return a unanimous verdict and the jurors retire to consider their decision.

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17 December, 2003

Huntley guilty of Holly and Jessica murders. Carr cleared of assisting an offender but guilty of conspiracy.
Ian Huntley was given two life sentences after being convicted of murdering both Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Maxine Carr was cleared of two counts of assisting an offender but was found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. She was jailed for three and a half years.

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