UK News 13-11-2003 I Didn`t Realise She Was Your Daughter... who: Suspected killer Ian Huntley what: Offered sympathy to murdered girl`s father, court is told where: The Old Bailey, LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: Ian Huntley offered comfort to Holly Wells`s dad after she vanished, reports The Sun today. The former school caretaker, who is on trial at The Old Bailey for the murder of ten year-old Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, told Kevin Wells "I am so sorry, I didn’t realise it was your daughter". "I saw nothing wrong," says Mr Wells. "I genuinely felt he was being sincere in offering his condolences." On day eight, the prosecution read a statement by Kevin Wells who recalled that he had encountered Huntley twice during the ordeal - once on the night of the disappearance, when a search of the Soham Village College took place and again at a press conference three days later in the school`s hall on the very day Huntley is alleged to have burned the girls` bodies. Holly and Jessica`s parents are not expected to take the stand. A separate statement from Holly`s mother was read aloud yesterday describing her daughter`s "last carefree hours," says The Telegraph, and "the trauma as first minutes then hours went by" when the girls disappeared on August 4th 2002. On that Sunday afternoon, the girls had been together at the Wells family home in Soham, Cambridgeshire but slipped out of the house unnoticed at about 6.15pm. Their families never saw them alive again. Huntley denies murder and his trial continues today. [... more]

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