The Ian Huntley Documentary

[Smowball]

I’ve seen it before but just watxhing it again - the guy who killed best friend schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells. But did it ever come out as to WHY he killed them both??

[Smowball]

Ken I’ve seen it before. Don’t ask me where or how but I’ve definitely seen it.

[Smowball]

Vetuste - is it ‘normal’ to lure TWO girls at the same time for any sexual needs? It all just seems so bizarre......

[naomi24]

It's probably normal to the abnormal.

[Ken4155]

Smow; according to the i newspaper, "A new Channel 5 documentary will now re-examine the case to find out what really happened - and how Huntley was caught." You may have seen a documentary on the case but it certainly wasn't this one. And the reason i asked was not to be pedantic but because i have recorded it which, had it been on before, would have been a waste of time.

[Smowball]

True. Just such a dreadful story x

[vetuste_ennemi]

One of the appaling things about this tragedy was the length of the trial which extended to and past Christmas. and the (in my view) unnecessary extension of the parents' agony. At one stage the jurors were given a tour of the Huntley house, presumably to test the plausibility of his "the first one fell into the bath and cracked her skull defence".

If I'd been a juror I would have though "due process" was taking the sipp.

[Smowball]

Ken, ok I don’t know but all I know is that everything I watched tonight I have seen before. Although I admit I don’t remember about the car having all the tyres changed.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Vetuste - is it ‘normal’ to lure TWO girls at the same time for any sexual needs?//

No, no and again no, but the man was a paedophile, Smowball.

[Smowball]

Vetuste - What was his reasoning for asking the girls into the house in the first place?

[vetuste_ennemi]

He was sexually attracted to pubescent girls, Smowball.

[Smowball]

Dear god.......

[Peter Pedant]

// about this tragedy was the length of the trial which extended to and past Christmas.//

erm the alternative is for the Crown to present their case and then say to the defence - right you crowd of wonkers and tassers, you have two days, OK one and a half, there's christmas coming and the jury have to do their shopping so chop chop - yakkety yak, get pleading damn you !

GBH and nurder were prosecuted within 60 d
but that has long gone ( 1970s)
[a works colleague was remanded in custody for GBH and on the first day of the trial, the judge asked the Crown, is he going to plead self defence ? (he took a knife off someone and stabbed him) and the crown said - yes my lord I understand from my esteemed and learned friend .....
and the judge said - case dismissed, the defence has to prevail]

I mean you really would ahve expected them to work something like that outbefore they cam to court ....

[baza]

Why did the dopey M. Carr get a new identity? She helped with the cover up and gets 2 years and a new ID, that seems a bit strange to me.

[Smowball]

Completely agree baza

[Ken4155]

She was sentenced on a charge of perverting the course of justice but found not guilty of assisting an offender as the jury believed she only gave Huntley a false alibi because she didn't know what he had done. Before, during and after her trail, she received quite a few death threats, hence the new identity. Since her release at least a dozen innocent women bearing a passing resemblance to Carr have been attacked and/or persecuted.

[10ClarionSt]

I think the programme was on one of the documentary channels and was one in a series titled "Britains' Most Evil Killers", which included programmes about Fred & Rose West; Ian Brady & Myra Hindley; Peter Sutcliffe
and others. There has definitely been a programme on about Huntley. I don't kow what this new programme has to say about him, but I'd suggest it's been said before.

[ichkeria]

There was nothing new in this documentary and it didn’t claim there was.
To be honest I couldn’t see the point of it.
The bodies were too decomposed to do a proper post mortem so they could not get anything to link him to the killings other than the so-called 5 mistakes. But most of those mistakes were of the inevitable kind. There was nothing outrageously random or unlucky about them. It’s just good police work.