Soham girls ‘were most likely smothered’

HOLLY WELLS and Jessica Chapman were probably smothered before being dumped in a remote ditch, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

A pathologist concluded that the most likely cause of death was asphyxia, the jury was told.

Remains of the two 10-year-old girls were so badly decomposed that they might never have been found, prosecutor Richard Latham QC told the court.