Rubble cleared from Soham murder house site
Builders were continuing to clear rubble today following the demolition of the house where Ian Huntley murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
The house, in the grounds of Soham Village College in Soham, Cambridgeshire, was knocked down on Saturday and rubble is being crushed and dispersed at secret locations.
A nearby storage hangar where Huntley hid the girls’ clothes in a bin is also being demolished.
Education authority Cambridgeshire County Council said the sites would initially be turfed and then landscaped to leave no trace of Huntley’s presence.
“Everything is going to plan,” said a spokesman today. “By the time school starts again after Easter, the areas will have been turfed over.”
Holly and Jessica, pupils at the neighbouring St Andrew’s Primary School, were enticed into 5 College Close and murdered shortly after leaving their homes in Soham on August 4, 2002.
Huntley, who was the caretaker at Soham Village College, then hid the bodies of the girls, both 10, in a ditch 20 miles away, where they lay undiscovered for two weeks.
Following a trial at the Old Bailey last year, Huntley, 30, was jailed for life for the girls’ murders.
Maxine Carr, 27, his fiancee, was given a three-and-a-half-year sentence for conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
The house they shared, which stood near the school, has been unoccupied since both were arrested on the day Holly and Jessica’s bodies were found.
It was hidden by a high corrugated metal fence while forensic scientists scoured for evidence.
