The Soham murders were a double child murder committed in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England on 4 August 2002. The victims were two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Amiee Chapman, who were lured into the home of a local resident and school caretaker, Ian Kevin Huntley,[1] who subsequently murdered the children—likely via asphyxiation—before disposing of their bodies in an irrigation ditch close to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. The girls' bodies were discovered on 17 August 2002.[2]
Huntley was convicted of the murder of both girls on 17 December 2003 and sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment, with the High Court later imposing a minimum term of 40 years. His girlfriend, Maxine Ann Carr—the girls' teaching assistant—had knowingly provided Huntley with a false alibi.[3] She received a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for conspiring with Huntley to pervert the course of justice.[4]
The search for Holly and Jessica in the thirteen days of their disappearance has been described as one of the most intense and extensive in British criminal history.[5][6]
^Cite error: The named reference The Guardian was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Two Arrested in Girls' Murder Enquiry". BBC News. 17 August 2002. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
^"Maxine Carr Gave Alibi to Save Me; Not to Deceive Police". The Telegraph. 3 December 2003. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
^"Judge Gives Huntley Forty Years – And Little Hope". The Daily Telegraph. 30 September 2005. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
^"Caretaker Charged with Murder of Two Girls and Sent to Rampton". The Telegraph. 21 August 2002. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
^"Last Hours of Holly and Jessica". The Evening Standard. 6 November 2003. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
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