Huntley denies murdering Soham girls

IAN HUNTLEY yesterday admitted conspiring to pervert the course of justice following the deaths of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

But the former school caretaker, who appeared in the dock for the first time with his girlfriend Maxine Carr, denied murdering the two girls, both 10, who vanished after being seen walking near their homes in Soham, Cambridgeshire, last August.

The parents of the two girls watched as Huntley, 29, who worked at Soham Village College at the time the girls disappeared, entered his plea at the Old Bailey.