 Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman trial begins.. | |
The Old Bailey trial of Soham murder suspect Ian Huntley has begun with the selection of the jury.
The 12 members will have to decide whether Huntley killed schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
The parents of the two 10-year-olds watched from the back of the courtroom as the process began.
It was the formal start of the trial of Huntley, 29, and his former girlfriend Maxine Carr.
Huntley, a former caretaker at Soham Village College, has always denied their murder.
But at an earlier court hearing, he admitted a single charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Carr, 26, a former classroom assistant at the girls' primary school, denies one charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
She also denies two charges of assisting an offender.
The bodies of Holly and Jessica were found in a ditch near an airbase in Suffolk on August 17, 2002. |