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The Soham Murders: The Ones You Carry

The Soham Murders: The Ones You Carry

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As we made our way through Great Ormond Street Hospital, it took a while to find the place we were looking for.It always did.No matter which hospital I visited, the mortuary always seemed hidden away.And for good reason.It’s the last department anyone wants to think about.Especially here.As many times as I’d walked similar corridors, this felt different.It was different.When I entered the room, the sights and smells were the same as every other mortuary I’d entered before.But not like this.Then I saw him.Three years old. Not much bigger than a baby.If I close my eyes now, I can still see his body lying on that metal table.None of my training had prepared me for this.Yet here I was.Ten-year-old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman lived just a few streets apart in Soham, a small Cambridgeshire market town surrounded by open countryside.On Sunday 4 August 2002, Jessica went to Holly’s house and spent the afternoon there. Holly’s family were having a barbecue and had guests over.The girls played on the computer in Holly’s bedroom before coming downstairs to eat with the rest of the family.Just after 5pm, Holly’s mum, Nicola, took a photograph of them wearing matching Manchester United shirts.After eating, the girls went back upstairs and continued playing on the computer.Later that evening, Nicola called upstairs for them to come down and say goodbye to the guests who were leaving.There was no reply.She called again.Still nothing.Nicola went upstairs expecting to find them in Holly’s bedroom.The room was empty.The girls had left the house, but nobody knew when they had gone or where they had gone.Jessica’s parents were contacted, but the girls weren’t there either.Family and friends began looking for them, searching around the house before checking places they thought the girls might have gone.As the evening wore on, their concern grew and, at around 10pm, the police were called.Local uniformed officers attended and began a missing person enquiry.They needed to establish when and where the girls had last been seen, obtain their descriptions, identify places they might have gone and understand whether their disappearance was out of character.It was.Officers began searching Soham and the surrounding countryside.A police helicopter was deployed, along with a dog handler, traffic officers and four-wheel-drive police vehicles.Local residents also came out to help.But despite their efforts, Holly and Jessica were not found that night.The following day, the search expanded beyond a local enquiry. Officers began arriving from surrounding forces to help.Public appeals increased, bringing in a significant amount of information. This included several potential sightings of the girls, each of which needed to be followed up urgently.One local resident reported seeing Holly and Jessica between 6.30pm and 6.40pm on Sunday evening. He said the girls had stopped outside his house to ask whether his partner, a teaching assistant from their primary school was at home. After telling them she was away, he watched them walk away towards St Andrew’s Church.As news of the case spread, more members of the public came to Soham to help with the searches until there were hundreds of people there offering their support.As part of the investigation, Family Liaison Officers (FLOs) were assigned to the Wells and Chapman families.After a couple of days, the enquiry developed into a major investigation, with resources reflecting the growing concern for the girls’ welfare.An incident room was established to provide a central point for information coming in from the public.A dedicated intelligence cell was set up to assess the growing amount of information and build a picture of the girls’ lives, people of potential interest and any links between them.The investigation now included house-to-house enquiries, examination of CCTV, vehicle checks, tracing witnesses and assessing every potential sighting of the girls.Specialist advisers coordinated searches of homes, gardens, business premises, waterways and open ground using police dogs, divers, aerial support and specially trained search officers.The photograph Nicola Wells had taken just before the girls disappeared became the image used in national appeals, showing exactly what they looked like and the clothing they had been wearing.Among the information coming into the police was a report from a taxi driver who said he had seen the driver of a dark green saloon car travelling erratically along the A142 from Soham towards Newmarket. He described the driver repeatedly turning towards the back seats and appearing to struggle with two children inside the car. The sighting became a major line of enquiry.Investigators were working to several theories of what may have happened to the girls.One was that harm had come to them. Detectives began identifying and checking known sex offenders in the area, as well as anyone who might pose a risk to children.Another line ...
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