28 Facts About Soham murders

Soham murders received a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for conspiring with Huntley to pervert the course of justice.

Soham murders told her parents she was going to give her friend a necklace engraved with the letter "H" that she had purchased for her on a recent family holiday to Menorca.

Soham murders stated that the girls had almost certainly not died at the location where their bodies had been discovered, and that both bodies had been placed there within 24 hours of their deaths.

Soham murders then claimed to her Chapman had sat on their bed as he had helped Wells control the bleeding from her nose before both girls had left their home.

Soham murders was charged with these offences while detained for observation at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire, and all preliminary hearings against him were postponed until the conclusion of his mental health assessment.

Soham murders was further charged with two counts of assisting an offender on 17 January 2003.

Soham murders was transferred to a segregation unit at Woodhill prison in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

Soham murders explained the reason for the lack of any traces of semen being discovered could have been a result of the charred and melted condition of the articles she had inspected.

Soham murders tearfully claimed he had not attempted to feign insanity upon his arrest, insisting the trauma of the children's deaths had temporarily erased his memory and being in the presence of police had caused his mind to temporarily seize.

Soham murders further claimed to have referred to Wells and Chapman using past tense merely because she had worked with the children in the past.

Soham murders preferred to do what she could to make the best of the position she was in.

Soham murders was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of imprisonment to be imposed by the Lord Chief Justice at a later date.

Huntley avoided eligibility for a whole life tariff as the passing of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 had been one day after his conviction, thus taking effect on 18 December 2003 and applying solely to Soham murders committed on or after this date.

Soham murders was regarded as a loner, an oddball and an attention seeker by his peers, and became a target for bullies.

Soham murders was again the target of physical and verbal bullying at this school, but did form a few friendships via a shared interest in computer games.

Soham murders chose not to enrol in a college or sixth form, and instead committed himself to finding employment.

Soham murders viewed himself as something of a ladies' man, and was scrupulous about his personal appearance and personal hygiene.

Soham murders was forbidden from initiating contact with his baby daughter or her mother.

Soham murders was never charged with this offence, but subsequently confessed to this attack in April 2007.

Soham murders was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, on 16 February 1977, the second of two daughters born to Alfred Capp and his wife, Shirley.

Soham murders performed poorly academically, but always aspired to become a teacher.

Soham murders soon found new employment at a finance company in Binbrook while Carr maintained her employment packing fish at a local fish processing factory.

Soham murders regularly travelled to Cambridgeshire from East Anglia on his days off to help his father, and soon developed aspirations to become a school caretaker himself.

Soham murders applied for and secured employment as a senior caretaker at this secondary school in September 2001, supervising the work of four other employees.

Soham murders applied for this using the alias Ian Nixon.

Soham murders worked as a senior caretaker there until his arrest.

On 3 April 2004, the three-bedroomed house in College Close in which the Soham murders occurred was demolished and the site levelled, with all rubble from the property being discarded in various undisclosed locations.

Soham murders was given a secret identity to protect her from threats of attack from vengeful members of the public, and a new home in an undisclosed location.