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Holly and Jessica: timeline of events
The story of Holly and Jessica's disappearance:
Sunday 4 August 2002
The day the girls go missing
Tuesday 6 August 2002
Footie star David Beckham appeals for the girls to return home.
Saturday 10 August 2002
Police use two young actresses to stage a reconstruction of the girls' last known moves.
Saturday 17 August 2002
The bodies of the girls are found in a ditch at Lakenheath Suffolk.
Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr are arrested.
Sunday 18 August 2002
Local people gather at St Andrew's Church in Soham for a special service for the girls.
The police say they are as certain as they can be that the bodies are those of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Wednesday 21 August 2002
Police charge two people in connection with the deaths of the girls.
The Soham school caretaker, Ian Huntley, is charged with the murder and his girlfriend Maxine Huntley is charged with lying to the police.
Sunday 25 August 2002
Police say they have found what they think are clothes that the two girls were wearing when they disappeared.
Tuesday 8 October 2002
Doctors decide Ian Huntley is mentally fit to stand trial.
Wednesday 16 April 2003
Ian Huntley pleads not guilty to the murders. Maxine Carr pleads not guilty to lying to the police.
Monday 27 October 2003
Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr attend a pre-trial hearing at the Old Bailey.
Monday 3 November 2003
The trial of Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr begins at the Old Bailey.
Wednesday 17 December 2003
Ian Huntley is found guilty of murdering both Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells.
Maxine Carr is found not guilty of helping Ian Huntley in relation to the deaths of the girls but guilty of lying to the police about what happened.
Huntley was given two life sentences by the judge.
Maxine Carr was sentenced to three and a half years in jail, but she's already been there for 16 months waiting for her trial. That means she might be out of jail in a couple of years.
Holly and Jessica: timeline of events
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