The girlfriend of the man accused of murdering Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman appeared in British court today accused of lying to police.

Former teaching assistant Maxine Carr is due in court today charged in connection with the murder of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

SCHOOL caretaker Ian Huntley was last night in a secure hospital charged with murdering 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

THREE young girls were the first to lay flowers near the spot where the bodies were found.

A church service was held this morning in Soham in Cambridgeshire to remember schoolgirls, Jessica Chapman and Holly Well, who went missing two weeks ago today.

A caretaker and his girlfriend were today arrested on suspicion of murdering Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, police sources said.

A 28-year-old man and 25-year-old woman have been arrested in connection with the murders of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells.

THE Manchester United team yesterday made a joint appeal for help in finding two of their biggest fans — Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

A school caretaker and his girlfriend were today being questioned about the disappearance of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

A 28-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman have been questioned in connection with the disappearance of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Hebb said.

A midnight deadline has passed with no word from an abductor who may have taken Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

The town at the centre of the hunt for missing girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman was tonight told to turn detective to help police find their potential abductor.

The families of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were clinging to a “little hope” today after a search of two mounds of earth by police found no trace of the 10-year-olds.

Police investigating two mounds of disturbed earth 10 miles from where Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman vanished have completed their search and found nothing.

Police today defended their hunt for missing schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman after it emerged that a potentially key witness contacted them four days before he was interviewed.

A motorist seen struggling with two children in a car near where schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells were last seen has not been traced.

Detectives hunting missing children Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells have defended a delay in issuing a public appeal to certain evidence.

THE parents of two missing schoolgirls made a desperate televised appeal to their girls’ abductor to release them last night, as British police made their first breakthrough in the case.

The anguished parents of missing schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman today begged for their safe return, amid growing fears they could have been snatched by someone they knew.

British police say they have a new confirmed sighting of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.