Standing close to that spot on Friday evening, with the road distant and the shadows lengthening, it was obvious their discovery had been very unlikely. They were lying on their backs in the ditch, their legs entwined. The smell of them alerted a gamekeeper, who saw bodies covered in maggots. The caretaker was arrested within hours.The bodies of the dead girls were found on 17 August. On that same day Maxine Carr was allegedly seen scrubbing the wall tiles at their house so hard that she complained some of the paint was coming off, said Mr Latham. Burnt clothing would later be found in a bin at the school, including scorched training shoes, underpants, and the little bra worn by Holly. The two red shirts had been cut in half and there were slight burns on the one that had been Jessica's.

The clothes were discovered under a black bin bag in a hangar at Soham Village College on 16 August Huntley's fingerprints were found inside the bin bag. The defence may suggest it had been some kind of ghastly accident that led to the death of the girls in the house, he said. "Ten-year-old girls do not tend to drop dead."On the Wednesday after Holly and Jessica died ­ the same day the police released pictures of the kinds of clothes they had been wearing ­ Huntley went back to the remote spot and set fire to their bodies using petrol, the prosecuting counsel suggested The flames went out before the bodies were consumed. Pollen at the scene was the same as that found on the pedals and in the footwell of the car, and on the red petrol can in the boot. Fibres from the football shirts were found in the car, in the caretaker's cottage and on his clothes. "You may now appreciate why it is unlikely to be disputed that these two girls went into the house," said Mr Latham.

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Despite Huntley's best efforts, traces of chalk and earth were found on the underside of his car that matched the soil on the track near the bodies, said the prosecutor. Huntley knew the area because his grandmother lived nearby, and this was where he brought the bodies in darkness on the stormy night of 4 August, suggested Mr Latham. "Whoever it was dumped the bodies would not have set off down that track in the dark unless they knew where they were going or what they would find."There was silence as photographs of this spot were projected on to plasma screens in the packed courtroom at the Old Bailey on Thursday. As the killer heaved her lifeless body from the boot of his Ford Fiesta and pushed into woodland Jessica's hair caught on the branch of a tree, where it would later be found and identified, said Mr Latham.