Ian was sentenced to life sentences. Nicola and Kevin have spoken often about their loss and how they tried to move on with their lives for the sake of Hollys brother Oliver. Episode 2. [68] RMG6JATP - The parents of murdered Soham schoolchildren Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, from left, Leslie and Sharon Chapman and Kevin and Nicola Wells, arrive at the Old Bailey in London, where the prosecution is expected to outline its case at the trial of Ian Huntley and his former girlfriend Maxine Carr. Summary information is updated to reflect amendments since the report was initially filed. [151][153], Carr pleaded guilty to the charge of perverting the course of justice, and not guilty to the charge of assisting an offender. [192][195][n 14], While Capp resided with her mother in Grimsby, she unofficially adopted the surname Benson. Ian Huntley accuses ex-girlfriend Maxine Carr of being a liar but hopes that she will move on after the murders of Jessica and Holly Source: Cambridgeshire Police Who is Maxine Carr? In August 2002, Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells attended a family barbecue at Holly's house and after the barbecue they left Holly's home at around 6.15pm to buy sweets from the vending machine at . To these questions, Carr explained that her first impression had been that Huntley had "had a woman in the house", adding their bedding had been washed shortly before 4 August. Ian Huntley was found guilty of their murders and sentenced to life in prison. [174], In April 1998, Huntley was arrested on suspicion of raping an 18-year-old woman. Shortly thereafter, she briefly worked as a junior care assistant at a care home for the elderly in Grimsby, then returned to work alongside her mother as a labourer at Bluecrest fish processing plant. [145] She further claimed to have referred to Wells and Chapman using past tense merely because she had worked with the children in the past. [113] Carr was also charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice on this date. Huntley further alleges Carr had encouraged him to burn both bodies in an attempt to destroy all forensic evidence linking him to the crime. The parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have long been commended for their dignity and grace during what can only be described as unimaginable heartbreak. ", "Caretaker Charged With Murder of Two Girls and Sent to Rampton", "Holly and Jessica: Two Bodies Found in Woods", "The Whole Town is Weeping: A Community Dazed by Grief and Disbelief", "Chatroom Contact Dismissed as False Lead", "Reconstruction of Children's Walk Too Painful for Parents to Watch", "Walking in the Last Known Footsteps of Holly and Jessica", "Abduction of Six-year-old May be Linked to Missing Girls", "A Long Night Waiting for News That Never Came", "Countdown to Murder of 'Two Little Beckhams', "Soham Murders: Why did Ian Huntley Kill Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman? We do chat about her quite regularly, which I think is a very nice thing. [21] Over 400 officers were assigned full-time to search for the girls. We had a flood. [98], The same evening, police conducted a thorough search of both 5 College Close and the grounds of Soham Village College where Huntley worked as a senior caretaker[100] as the couple remained under police watch at separate locations outside Soham. [216], Huntley was transferred from Wakefield prison to Frankland prison on 23 January 2008. They went missing on Sunday 4 August 2002, when they were both 10 years old. Here is a timetable of the main events in the search for missing 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. In reference to the evident extensive cleaning of the house's interior, Huntley stated: "Excuse the dining room. Minutes after their daughter's 8:30p.m. curfew had expired, Nicola Wells phoned the Chapman residence to ask if the girls were there, only to learn Leslie and Sharon Chapman were worried that their youngest daughter had not returned home. His girlfriend, Maxine Ann Carrthe girls' teaching assistanthad knowingly provided Huntley with a false alibi. While townsfolk are determined to remember Holly and Jessica, acts of remembrance in Soham are expected to be low-profile. [226] She was given a secret identity to protect her from threats of attack from vengeful members of the public[227] in addition to being provided with a new home in an undisclosed location. When Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing in Soham in 2002, Dennis was called in by Holly's family to help. Its strange being three of us, when there used to be a fourth.. As for Hollys younger brother Oliver, who was six-years-old at the time of her murder, hes gone on to have a family of his own with his partner Lydia. [14] Pathological evidence retrieved from the bodies indicating at least one of the girls had been subjected to a sexual assault either before or after her murder was not disclosed to the jury at Huntley's trial. [24], Huntley's car was also forensically examined on 16 August. There's two little Beckhams over there. To one colleague, Capp would talk incessantly about her dreams of leaving this employment and embarking on a teaching career. The stated purpose of the Bichard inquiry was: Urgently to enquire into child protection procedures in Humberside Police and Cambridgeshire Constabulary in the light of the recent trial and conviction of Ian Huntley for the murder of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells. [97] By this date, police had received information from several Grimsby residents who had recognised Huntley in the television interviews he had given, and recalled that he had been accused of rape several years earlier. e-mail; 18. shares. While returning to 4 Redhouse Gardens,[11] Wells and Chapman walked past the College Close home of Ian Huntley, the senior caretaker at the local secondary school. Holly's father Kevin Wells described how on the Sunday afternoon Jessica phoned her parents to ask permission to stay over for a barbeque, which . And hes even walked the Great Wall of China to raise funds for it. His erratic behaviour and apparent distress led to him being prescribed anti-depressants on 13 August. Following the birth of their second child, Wayne, in August 1975, the family moved into a rented property in Immingham, where Huntley attended school. [200] Shortly thereafter, the couple moved to a ground-floor flat in Scunthorpe, where Huntley formally proposed to Carr in June 1999. Discussing Huntley's mindset, Leslie Chapman opined: "I think he was a time bomb waiting to go off and both our girls were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wed, 17 Dec, 2003 - 13:00. In 2015 it was reported that Nicola and Kevin had moved back into the home that held so many precious memories of their beloved daughter. Speaking previously to the Radio Times, Oliver admitted that he thinks about his sister often. At the time, he said: After losing Holly we both witnessed and experienced the effects that bereavement and the grieving process can have on your life. Between 1992 and 2002, he had committed many acts of physical and sexual violence against women and children for which he had been unpunished. SOHAM murderer Ian Huntley has admitted to his parents that he deliberately killed Jessica Chapman, it was reported today. [187], The marriage between Capp's parents was marred by frequent arguments. Heartbreak of Ian Huntleys daughter as father shows no remorse for Holly and Jessicas murder, Ian Huntleys jail term run-in with Yorkshire Ripper, suicide attempts and a near-fatal stabbing, Peter Andre issues strict rule for daughter Princess as she lands massive modeling contract, Eamonn Holmes fans baffled over his unrecognisable appearance in new photo as they make plea. He then claimed to her Chapman had sat on their bed as he had helped Wells control the bleeding from her nose before both girls had left their home. Music Composed and Conducted by: David Newman. [88], By the second week of the children's disappearance, Huntley had become an unofficial spokesman for the community of Soham. She lost her life at the hands of Ian Kevin Huntley when she was 10 years old. The parents of murdered Soham girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have been visited by police investigating phone-hacking by journalists. [82], Over the course of three days, Latham outlined the efforts of both defendants to divert suspicion away from Huntley, and Huntley's own efforts to destroy all physical and circumstantial evidence linking him to the crime,[24] but despite these efforts, investigators had retrieved enough evidence to show the children had been murdered within his home andwithin approximately twelve hours of their deathstransported in his vehicle to the location where their bodies were discovered on 17 August. [209] One of the children to express dismay at this decision was Wells, who having broken down in tears upon learning Carr's application for the teaching position had been unsuccessful, presented her with a hand-drawn card,[210] depicting a smiling face, in which she stated: "I'll miss you a lot. The victims were two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman, who were lured into the home of a local resident and school caretaker, Ian Kevin Huntley,[1] who subsequently murdered the childrenlikely via asphyxiationbefore disposing of their bodies in an irrigation ditch close to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. These disclosures revealed that not only had police failed to pursue numerous previous criminal complaints of sexual offences against underage girls and young women by Huntley, but he had then secured a job in Soham allowing him access to children. [241], The Bichard inquiry recommended a mandatory registration scheme for people working with children and vulnerable adults such as the elderly and mentally handicapped. The girls' bodies were discovered on 17 August 2002. He was reportedly awarded 2,500 in legal aid to pursue this claim. [167], In June 1994, Huntley began dating 18-year-old Claire Evans, who he met through his employment at a local Heinz factory. [221] This resulted in his hospitalisation and a thorough search of his cell, in which a cassette tape was recovered. Here, his mental state was assessed by Christopher Clark, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, to determine whether he suffered from any form of mental illness and whether he was mentally competent to stand trial. [185] Psychologists have also determined Huntley has mentally blocked any attempts to accept the reality or enormity of his actions pertaining to his repeated violence against females in order that he might cope with the consequences of his actions. Today I accept there was nothing more or different as a parent I could have done to change the outcome, Kevin said at the time. Kevin, who runs his own window cleaning business, is also the founding patron of the charity Grief Encounter. [14] His employers helped him to get the tenancy of 5 College Close,[208] and he and Carr moved to Soham in late September. [76] The Reverend Tim Alban Jones officiated at this service, saying: "Would not the best and most lasting memorial to these two lovely young girls be a change for the better in how we behave towards each other? I was the last person to see them!" [142] When questioned about why she had then helped Huntley in extensively cleaning their home in the days after the children's murder, Carr claimed she had done so as she had always been "obsessive about tidiness. He said it helped the family with their loss. In the summer of 2002, two 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, went missing from their home in Soham. [29] Over 260 registered sex offenders across the UK - including 15 high-risk paedophiles - were also questioned; all were eliminated from the investigation. [198] According to Carr, she was "instantly attracted" to Huntley's self-confident and pleasant persona, and agreed to begin dating him that same evening. She was jailed for giving Huntley a false alibi after he killed 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Sharon worked at St Andrews primary school in Soham. The injuries Huntley received in this attack resulted in his being unable to attend the hearing at which his minimum term of imprisonment was decided. He would typically use guile or force to achieve his desires. Investigators were able to obtain extensive footage of the children's movements following their departure from the Wells household. Almost two weeks after Holly and Jessica went missing, their bodies were found - dumped in a ditch and badly burned.