Huntley admits cutting off Holly and Jessica’s clothes

SOHAM-ACCUSED Ian Huntley cut off Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman’s clothes as their bodies lay in a remote ditch, his lawyer said yesterday in the first of a series of “admissions”.

He took the clothes back to Soham Village College, where he worked as the caretaker, and set them on fire, his Old Bailey murder trial was told. The charred remnants of the 10-year-olds’ red Manchester United shirts and other clothes were later found hidden in a bin at the college, with hair that matched Huntley’s mixed in with them, the court heard.

Stephen Coward QC, for Huntley, said: “The case for my client is, having cut off the clothes of the girls at the deposition site he brought them back to Soham, put them inside one of the bins that we have seen outside the hangar, set fire to the contents and then replaced the bin inside the hangar.”