Girls may still be alive

A YOUNG school caretaker and his girlfriend late last night left police stations after being questioned in connection with the disappearance of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

Ian Huntley, 28, the site manager at Soham Village College for the past nine months, and 25-year-old Maxine Carr, a former teaching assistant in the girls' class, were quizzed for seven hours at separate police stations.

Cambridgeshire Police said the couple had agreed to be questioned and had been treated as "significant witnesses".