IT WAS as good a Patriots Day, as good a marathon day, as any; dry and seasonably warm but not hot like last year.

The jurors in the Soham murder trial travelled today from the small Cambridgeshire town across the Fens to the remote ditch in Suffolk where the girls’ bodies were found.

The jury in the Soham murder trial huddled today around the remote ditch where the bodies of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were found.