UK News 02-12-2003 I`m sorry for what happened who: Suspected killer Ian Huntley what: Admits he was responsible for deaths of Holly and Jessica where: The Old Bailey, LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "Ian Huntley yesterday broke down in the witness box as he admitted that he was responsible for the deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman," reports The Scotsman. "Huntley, 29, who denies murdering the ten-year-olds, told his Old Bailey trial that he was ashamed and sorry for what he had done." During four hours of testimony, he described how the two girls had come to his house in Soham, Cambridgeshire, on August 4th last year asking after "Miss Carr" - Huntley`s fiancee, Maxine - who was away for the weekend. Holly had a nosebleed and the girls accompanied him upstairs to his bathroom so she could get cleaned up. Shortly after, he stumbled and knocked her into a bath which he had filled with water in order to clean his dog, Sadie. Huntley says he froze and could not think what to do. Jessica then screamed "You pushed her" over and over again. He tried to stifle her screams and he could remember putting one hand, or possibly both, over her mouth. When he let go, she fell to the floor. "He described how he was physically sick after he realised that both girls appeared lifeless and how he thought of contacting police but decided that they would not believe that the 10-year-olds died by accident," says The Times. H says that he decided instead to carry their bodies to his car and drive them out of Soham to a remote ditch, where he cut off their clothes and set the bodies alight with petrol. [... more]

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