Marc Dutroux, chief defendant in a horrific child rape and murder trial that has transfixed Belgium for three months, went into the witness box today to make his final arguments before a jury decides his fate.

Psychiatrists testified today that Marc Dutroux, who is standing trail for kidnapping, abuse and murder involving six young girls, was a psychopath who knew exactly what he was doing.

Two victims in the kidnap, rape and murder trial that has shocked Belgium today returned to Marc Dutroux’s home where he held them and two other girls in a dank secret dungeon.

Marc Dutroux, a paedophile on trial for rape and murder in a case that has horrified Belgium, apologised today to the two victims rescued alive from his basement cell eight years ago.

A victim rescued from Marc Dutroux’s dungeon asked a court today to silence the paedophile during his rape and murder trial which has horrified Belgium.

A WOMAN who was horrifically abused and held for 80 days in a cellar dungeon when she was 12 yesterday came face-to-face with the man accused of kidnapping her.

After eight years, a victim who survived 80 days before being rescued from a cellar dungeon today came face to face for with the man accused of kidnapping her.

The policeman involved in a search for kidnapped girls who were abused and killed in Belgium eight years ago said today that he is still haunted by how well the chief suspect hid the children.

Photographers from several Belgian newspapers and the French weekly Paris Match were today barred from entering the courtroom where Marc Dutroux is on trial for kidnapping, child rape and murder after ignoring a ban on publishing pictures of him in the dock.

Eliciting gasps of horror in the courtroom, Marc Dutroux took the stand today to describe how he kidnapped and raped young girls in the mid-1990s.

Prosecutors used the second day in a child-sex and murder trial today to paint a gruesome picture of crimes they claim Marc Dutroux and his co-defendants committed against six young girls in the 1990s.

BELGIUM'S public enemy Number One and three co-defendants went on trial yesterday for kidnapping, abusing and killing young girls in a mid-1990s crime spree that shocked the country.

Belgium’s public enemy Number One and three co-defendants went on trial today for kidnapping, abusing and killing young girls in a mid-1990s crime spree that shocked the country.

Belgium’s public enemy number one and three accomplices, including his ex-wife, were going on trial today for kidnapping, abusing and killing young girls in a revolting 1990s crime spree that shocked the country.