Prosecution key points: Day Two

It is claimed Jessica and Holly died in Ian Huntley's home

The case against Ian Huntley, the man accused of murdering Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, is being outlined at the Old Bailey.

Prosecuting lawyer Richard Latham QC is expected to spend up to three days presenting his evidence against Mr Huntley, who denies the charges.

He is also explaining the case against Mr Huntley's former girlfriend Maxine Carr, who denies two charges of assisting an offender and one of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

---

The main allegations made by the prosecution on Day Two were as follows:

• The 10-year-olds' clothing was cut off their bodies and attempts made to burn it in a bin at Soham Village College, where Mr Huntley worked

  

  Richard Latham QC says Mr Huntley murdered both girls

• The crucial finding was made on Friday 16 and involved all the clothing of Holly and Jessica right down to their trainers and underwear

• Mr Huntley's fingerprints were found on the inside of the bin liner that covered the clothes and bits of his hair were mixed with the clothes

• Days after the disappearance Mr Huntley had asked a reporter if the girls' clothes had been found, the prosecution said. Police did not know the girls' clothes were missing, but Mr Huntley did "because we say he was the killer"

• After the girls went missing Mr Huntley had changed the tyres on his red Ford Fiesta, even though they had been in good condition, in an attempt to destroy evidence

• As Soham residents searched for Holly and Jessica, Mr Huntley thoroughly cleaned his car in an attempt to "sanitise" it and replaced carpet in the boot

• Mr Huntley later told police a red Ford Fiesta had been seen around Soham acting suspiciously, the prosecution said. It suggested he knew such a car was implicated in the case and was trying to divert attention from himself and his own vehicle

• On the Wednesday after the girls disappeared a neighbour of Mr Huntley's grandmother in Lakenheath - the area where the bodies were later found - said she was 20-30% sure she had seen the school caretaker. A phone call was made about half an hour later to Ms Carr's mobile from Mr Huntley's grandmother's phone

• Maxine Carr said that Ian Huntley was on the phone in "absolute tears" during a five-minute call the morning after Holly and Jessica went missing

• Ms Carr said Mr Huntley told her this was because he was the last person to have spoken to the girls and he feared he was "going to get fitted up"

  

  Maxine Carr and Ian Huntley are on trial at the Old Bailey

• As police had gathered to search for the girls on the first day, Mr Huntley loitered in the area, trying to find out what they had seen on CCTV

• He later tried to keep one step ahead of police, asking journalists and officers for information about the case

• Mr Huntley asked officers how long DNA could last and how far out of Soham the search would go

• When police announced that a message for the abductor had been left on Jessica's phone, Mr Huntley asked how that person would get it if the phone's battery was dead or if it had been thrown away

• After a six minute telephone call with Ms Carr, Mr Huntley deceived police by telling them he had seen a man carrying "something quite substantial" running towards woods

• Mr Huntley and Ms Carr tried to convince police she had been in Soham at the time the girls went missing when she was actually in Grimsby

• A hitchiker was given a lift by the couple after Mr Huntley went to Grimsby to collect Ms Carr, Mr Latham said. Mr Huntley described himself as the last person to see Holly and Jessica alive - even though a woman had reported seeing them alive

• A series of interviews with Mr Huntley and Ms Carr on television and radio were played to the jury. In the interviews Mr Huntley was asked to recall his account of the the two girls approaching him the evening they disappeared. He said he believed he was the last person to see them alive.