The jury in the trial of Marc Dutroux for the rape and murder of young girls retired to consider their verdicts today.

Marc Dutroux, chief defendant in a horrific child rape and murder trial that has transfixed Belgium for over three months, rejected the most serious charges against him today in a final courtroom appeal before a jury decides his fate.

THE surviving victims of child-rapist Marc Dutroux yesterday returned to the dungeon where he incarcerated and abused them in 1996.

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 yesterday to the two victims rescued alive from his basement cell eight years ago.

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.

TWO young women were set this week to testify at the murder and rape trial of Belgian pedophile Marc Dutroux about how he allegedly held them in captivity in the cellar of his house.

BELGIAN child rapist Marc Dutroux withdrew his ban on being photographed yesterday but lashed out at the media as his trial for a shocking spate of abductions, rapes and murders resumed for a second week.

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.

CHILD rapist Marc Dutroux has claimed he was the scapegoat for a shadowy paedophile gang, as for the first time he gave graphic evidence yesterday at a trial that has Belgium in its lurid grip.

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.

A man testifying at his own trial for kidnapping, abusing and killing young girls in the mid-1990s, said today he built and wired a secret cell in his basement for the victims on orders of a child-sex network operating in Belgium.

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.

PICTURES of Marc Dutroux’s victims hung on the fence outside the Court House in Arlon while inside the man Belgium has been waiting for almost eight years to see on trial sat behindbullet-proof glass.

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.

A COURT in Belgium has ruled that the man suspected of the country’s most notorious child murders should finally stand trial – more than six years after his arrest.