Huntley ‘failed to mention sighting’

SOHAM-ACCUSED Ian Huntley waited eight hours before telling police he had seen Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman on the night they vanished, his Old Bailey murder trial heard yesterday.

Huntley, 29, said he had not thought it was "necessary" to tell police scouring Cambridgeshire for the 10-year-olds that he had seen them walking past his house, the court was told.

He reported the sighting in the early hours of Monday August 5, some eight hours after they went missing, and after a massive hunt had been launched.