‘They think I did it,’ Huntley told journalist
BBC producer Debbie Tubby said Huntley approached her on the night of Monday August 5, the day after the 10-year-olds vanished, and said he was the last person to see them and a police suspect.
The jury heard that Huntley later asked her if the girls' clothing had been found nine days before the girls' naked bodies were discovered in a ditch.
Their clothing had been cut off and the charred remnants were eventually found hidden in a bin at Soham Village College, where Huntley worked as a caretaker.
The prosecution allege that he murdered the girls in his house on Sunday August 4 last year, hours after they left Holly's home, and dumped their bodies in a remote ditch near Lakenheath, Suffolk.
They claim he returned to the ditch three days later, on the night of Wednesday August 7, and tried to set fire to the bodies to disguise them and destroy forensic evidence linking him to the double child murders.
Prosecution barrister Richard Latham QC told the jury at the opening of the case that the defence might claim the girls' deaths were the result of "a ghastly accident" and that the prosecution insisted they were not.
Huntley, 29, denies murdering the 10-year-old friends but has admitted conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
His ex-girlfriend Maxine Carr, 26, a former classroom assistant at the girls' primary school, denies conspiring to pervert the course of justice and two charges of assisting an offender.
The prosecution allege she gave Huntley a false alibi for the day the girls went missing.
Journalists who interviewed Huntley about his account of seeing the girls on the day just before they vanished, and told how he appeared to choke back tears.
And they described how Carr said she was in the bath when he spoke to the girls.
She later admitted she was in Grimsby all weekend.
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