I had visions of Holly in a bath, says Soham father

KEVIN WELLS had visions of his daughter in an empty bath before it was even suggested she had been killed in Ian Huntley’s bathroom, he disclosed yesterday.

Mr Wells revealed the images he repeatedly experienced five months after 10-year-olds Holly and Jessica Chapman were murdered in August 2002, during a harrowing 90-minute ITV documentary being broadcast tonight.

During the Soham murder trial, school caretaker Ian Huntley told the court that Holly had drowned in the bath when he accidentally killed Jessica by covering her mouth to stop her from screaming.

Mr Wells said in the documentary, entitled Our Daughter Holly: “It was quite bizarre. It was an image that came to me on such a regular basis that I factually recorded it with the police. I saw Holly in a bath, but the thing to mention is there was no water in the bath.”

The ITV1 special sees Holly’s parents, family and friends, talk about the girl with a “lovely nature” who loved Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue.

Mr Wells said he would be waiting for Huntley, who was jailed for life at the Old Bailey last year, when the killer is released from jail.

“Fifty years now appears to be the minimum sentence that Ian Huntley is going to serve ... When I said I would be around to go and meet him, I meant it.”

His wife, Nicola, said she would like to “hang him very slowly”.

Of Huntley’s 26-year-old former girlfriend Maxine Carr, who was jailed for conspiring to pervert the course of justice, she said: “I think she’s got a life sentence now anyhow.”

Despite their anger, the couple said they had to get on with the lives for the sake of their son, Oliver.