Parents of murdered girls arrive at court
The parents of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman today arrived at the Old Bailey for the trial of their alleged killer.
Kevin and Nicola Wells and Sharon and Leslie Chapman walked into the historic courthouse together on the first day of the trial.
Mr and Mrs Wells arrived hand-in-hand and all four posed briefly for photographers outside the building.
All four parents wore Remembrance Day poppies and looked tense as they approached the Old Bailey.
The disappearance of their daughters, both 10, on August 4 last year triggered one of the biggest manhunts ever seen in Britain.
Their bodies were found in an overgrown ditch in Lakenheath, Suffolk, 13 days later.
The trial of the couple arrested in connection with the disappearances, Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr, was formally due to begin at the Old Bailey today.
Huntley, 29, has always denied their murder.
But at an earlier court hearing he admitted a single charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
His former girlfriend, Carr, 26, denies one charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice and two charges of assisting an offender.
