Product Description

The horrific murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman shocked and sickened the nation. The man found guilty of their murders is now one of the most reviled men in the country. As if his crime was not dreadful enough, he has recently admitted that he lied under oath about the circumstances of one of the murders. This in-depth book is written by investigative journalist Nathan Yates, who witnessed the murder hunt first-hand and even interviewed Huntley and former girlfriend Maxine Carr. Yates also has an exclusive source for contact with Ian Huntley and will have further revelations about how far Huntley has lied about what happened that tragic day.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29090 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

About the Author
Nathan Yates covered the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman as a Daily Mirror staff reporter, from the day of the girls' disappearance. The indepth reporting of these events won Nathan and his colleagues the title Team Reporters of the Year at the 2003 British Press Awards. Nathan has been at the Daily Mirror for seven years and has worked for four other national newspapers since leaving Oxford University with a first class degree in English.

Customer Reviews

We need to be educated by books like this.
We need to be able (hopefully) to educate and tell others about the dangers of people like this. The public and parents need to be on the offensive and make sure that this type of crime cannot be put into action again. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and the narrator, looking back over the time he spent in Soham, can piece together the timeline from witness accounts and his own views. He indeed spent time and asked questions of Huntley and Carr, noting as other journalists did that something wasn't 'quite right'.

I didn't follow the story that carefully at the time in August 2002, just snippetts so it was made more clear to me by reading the tale from the time of the abduction to the trial.

A neat work which tells a story people need to hear and understand, however hard it is to bear - and it is hard.......

It's like reading the Sun.
It's certainly a tragic story, but the whole book is written in such a sensationalist way that you forget you're supposed to be reading a factual book, it's like reading a tabloid report. All through the book we are constantly reminded that Huntley is "sick", "twisted", "evil" etc. Personally I prefer to read the facts and make up my own mind. The book offers no new information on the case, and it seems to me like a ploy by the author to prise open the wallets and purses of the bleeding hearts, what with all the heartfelt warbling about the two "perfect little angels" and the "sinister evil man who killed them in cold blood".

The author puts across largely fictional accounts of what happened, describing Huntley's feelings / fears while committing the murders and disposing of the bodies etc when there were absolutely no witnesses to testify as to how he was feeling or what he was thinking at any of these times, and he's never confessed any of it. Huntley wasn't interviewed by the author. In fact, nobody relevant to the case was interviewed in the book. The quotes all come from "a person close to the familes", or "An old school pal". I am of the opinion that most of the quotes were made up.

There are other books out there that offer a much better insight and will give you fact instead of opinion, this is just drivel.

anger and tears
this was a bril book(considering the topic bless them girls)
i couldnt put it down, at times i was soooo angry at times i couldnt help the tears
a great read especially if u read 'our dearest holly'