Soham jury must ‘put aside emotion’

THE jurors in the Soham murder case must “put aside emotion” as they hear about the deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, they were told yesterday at the Old Bailey in London.

Trial judge Mr Justice Moses said his courtroom was not the place for feelings, or for understandable sympathy, for the girls or their families.

He urged the 12 jurors to consider the prosecution’s case against defendants Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr coolly and calmly, “uninfluenced by emotion, uninfluenced by sympathy”.