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.

A BELGIAN court yesterday ordered the trial by jury of Marc Dutroux, nearly seven years after the suspected child killer and paedophile was first arrested over a series of abductions, rapes and murders that shocked the world.