‘Mental shutdown’ erased memory of girls leaving, Huntley told mother

IAN HUNTLEY told his mother he remembered “100%” how Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left his house alive — a year before he admitted they died in his bathroom.

Huntley told his mother in October last year that he had "shut down" mentally after the girls vanished but could now remember them leaving his home alive.

His conversation with Lynda Nixon-Huntley secretly recorded as she visited him in prison and played to his murder trial yesterday directly contradicted the version put before the Old Bailey jury on his behalf.