Key points: Day 17

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

The Soham trial is hearing prosecution evidence at the Old Bailey.

On Friday the jury heard secretly taped phone calls made by Maxine Carr and Ian Huntley in prison.

Mr Huntley denies murdering Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

Ms Carr, his former girlfriend, denies two charges of assisting an offender and one of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

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The key details from the tapes and witnesses on Day 17 are as follows:

• In a phone call, made from Woodhill Prison on 23 October last year, a sobbing Mr Huntley tells his mother, Lynda Nixon, Holly and Jessica left his home alive on the night they disappeared.

• Mr Huntley tells Mrs Nixon: "I can remember them leaving the house... I know why they came in the house as well, one of them had a nosebleed, I was on the doorstep brushing Sadie and one of them had a nosebleed."

• Mr Huntley tells his mother: "They want to restart the investigation because they have got nothing."

• Mr Huntley tells Mrs Nixon: " I just shut down yesterday, mum. I do not know why, I cannot stop it. You know it is happening but cannot stop it. You've no idea what that feels like... you find yourself huddled up next to a toilet on the floor."

• In a later conversation Mr Huntley tells his mother: "I haven't done it, I haven't done it. I remember them girls leaving my house, I'm adamant, I'm 100%.

• Mr Huntley tells Mrs Nixon: "Someone has been following those girls, seen those girls at my bloody house knowing full well they would find some DNA at my house, buggered off and put the clothes at the school so they will think I have done it."

• In a phone call, made from Holloway Prison on 18 October last year, a sobbing Ms Carr tells Mrs Nixon: "I don't understand why this had to happen. I don't know what I'm going to do."

• In a phone call, made from Holloway Prison on 30 October last year, Ms Carr tells Mrs Nixon the police have told her Mr Huntley had been having an affair with "some woman at the college".

• Ms Carr tells Mrs Nixon she has written to Mr Huntley to ask if he had been having an affair.

• Mrs Nixon tells Ms Carr Mr Huntley has not received any mail from her.

• Ms Carr tells Mrs Nixon she has sent Mr Huntley a letter every day and is receiving mail from him.

• Ms Carr tells Mrs Nixon: "I just want him to know that I'm writing the letters, the letters are going every day. I think the police or the prison are stopping them."

• The prosecution outlined four of 21 admissions being made by Mr Huntley's defence team.

• 1 Mr Huntley cut and removed Holly and Jessica's clothes.

• 2 Mr Huntley set Holly and Jessica's bodies alight with petrol.

• 3 Mr Huntley burned Holly and Jessica's clothes in a bin.

• 4 Mr Huntley covered Holly and Jessica's burnt clothes with a bin bag.

• Junior prosecution counsel Karim Khalil told the jury Mr Huntley's fingerprints had been found on the inside and outside of a bin bag covering Holly and Jessica's burnt clothes.

• Earlier on Friday plasterboard expert Ken Smith told the jury there had been "minimal water damage" to the ceiling below the end of the bath opposite the taps in the Soham home Mr Huntley shared with Ms Carr - but no evidence of flooding from the bathroom into the dining room.