'We blocked every avenue he went

IAN HUNTLEY was forced to fall back on a "tissue of his lies" to try to save himself, England's Crown Prosecution Service said outside court yesterday.

Marion Bastin, speaking of the co-operation between the English police and the Cambridgeshire CPS, said: "We made sure that we blocked every avenue Ian Huntley went down to work his way out of the murders. It left him with no alternative but to fall back on a final story which was no more than a tissue of lies to save his own skin."

For two long weeks in August 2002, Britain's attention was focused on Soham and the hunt for Holly and Jessica.