A decision on the case of Soham defendant Maxine Carr is likely to be made in the next few days, it has emerged.

IAN HUNTLEY was forced to fall back on a "tissue of his lies" to try to save himself, England's Crown Prosecution Service said outside court yesterday.

Soham accused Ian Huntley did not dial 999 after Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman died in his house because the chain of events was too unbelievable, he told his Old Bailey murder trial today.

Soham accused Ian Huntley’s account of how Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman died in his bathroom today came under examination by Home Office pathologist Nat Carey.

ALLEGED double child murderer Ian Huntley claimed in court yesterday that Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman died in a series of accidents in his bathroom.

School caretaker Ian Huntley admits disposing of the bodies of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman after they died in his house, the jury trying him for murder heard today.

Ian Huntley’s lawyers were expected to make a series of “admissions” today as the forensic case against the alleged Soham murderer continued at London's Old Bailey.

Soham accused Ian Huntley cut off Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman’s clothes as their bodies lay in a remote ditch, his lawyer admitted today.

SOHAM-ACCUSED Ian Huntley told a journalist 24 hours after Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman disappeared that police had searched his house “and they think I did it”, his Old Bailey murder trial heard yesterday.

Soham murder accused Ian Huntley told a journalist on the day after Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing that police had searched his home and thought “he did it”, the Old Bailey heard today.

A hitch-hiker picked up by Soham accused Ian Huntley two days after Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman vanished was giving evidence today at the caretaker’s Old Bailey murder trial.

A grandmother who scaled the gates of Buckingham Palace today is a veteran peace campaigner who has repeatedly trespassed on military bases.

Former colleagues of Soham accused Ian Huntley were today giving evidence at his Old Bailey murder trial.

SOHAM-ACCUSED Ian Huntley waited eight hours before telling police he had seen Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman on the night they vanished, his Old Bailey murder trial heard yesterday.

SOHAM accused Ian Huntley was the focus of a schoolgirl crush just weeks before he allegedly murdered Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, his Old Bailey trial heard yesterday.

Soham accused Ian Huntley had a secret “quiet area” where he went plane-spotting at Lakenheath – near the remote ditch where his alleged victims were found, his Old Bailey murder trial heard today.

The Soham double child murder trial entered its second day of witness evidence at the Old Bailey in London today.

Statements from the families of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were read today to the jury trying their alleged killer Ian Huntley.

The Soham murder trial was today expected to hear its first witness give evidence about the disappearance of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

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.

Jurors in the Soham murder trial were today due to see the remote ditch where the bodies of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were found.

The last steps of Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were today being retraced by the jury trying their alleged killer.

More details of the case against Soham accused Ian Huntley were due to emerge today, the second day of the prosecution’s opening of the Old Bailey murder trial.

SOHAM accused Ian Huntley yesterday came face-to-face with the people who will try him on double child murder charges.

BRITAIN’S Prison Service faced mounting criticism yesterday after claims that a major security lapse allowed an undercover journalist using bogus references to get a job guarding Soham murders suspect Ian Huntley.

SOHAM murder accused Ian Huntley was in a coma last night after an apparent suicide bid.

IAN HUNTLEY yesterday admitted conspiring to pervert the course of justice following the deaths of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

The man accused of murdering schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman today arrived at the Old Bailey for his first court appearance alongside girlfriend Maxine Carr.

Children in Soham will this week remember murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman when they sing a song written in memory of the youngsters.

The trial of Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr will take place at the Old Bailey, a judge has ruled.

Forensic teams have completed their search of the ditch where the bodies of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were found, police said today.

Murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were today set to be remembered at sporting events across the country in poignant one minute silences.

THE girlfriend of the man accused of the double murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman could face "further serious charges" in connection with their deaths, an inquest heard today.

THE parents of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have made private visits to the site where the bodies of their daughters were found, police said yesterday.

Police have begun searching a bungalow in Lakenheath about four miles from the spot where the bodies of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were found.

The parents of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have made private visits to the site where the bodies of their daughters were found, police said today.

A Book of Condolence in memory of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman was opened in Derry today following pressure from the local community.

THE parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman faced added torment last night after post mortem examinations on their daughters’ bodies failed to pin-point the cause of death.

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

THE search for Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman came to a tragic end last night when detectives confirmed that two bodies found in remote fenland were those of the missing girls.

Detectives investigating the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman tonight said they were "as certain as we possibly can be" that two bodies found in remote fenland were those of the missing girls.

Three young girls tonight knelt down to lay flowers near the spot where the bodies feared to be those of missing Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were found.

The devastated parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were tonight waiting in dread for the confirmation that two bodies found at a remote beauty spot were their missing daughters.