Dutroux faces Belgian court

Belgium’s public enemy number one and three accomplices, including his ex-wife, were going on trial today for kidnapping, abusing and killing young girls in a revolting 1990s crime spree that shocked the country.

Marc Dutroux, 47, and his co-defendants were facing a jury trial amid extraordinary security, eight years after Belgians learned how, in 1995 and 1996, six young girls were randomly kidnapped and abused in his cellar behind a custom-built door.