On Saturday it was announced that Huntley, who was serving a life prison sentence for the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, who were both 10, died after being attacked in prison last week.

The double murderer killed the girls in 2002, before burying them near RAF Lakenheath, in Suffolk.

Journalist Brian Farmer, who worked for the Press Association in East Anglia at the time and had been reporting on the disappearance of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman on August 4 2002, told BBC News he went to speak to Huntley after police issued a list of last sightings of the girls.

He interviewed Huntley, then 28, and his partner Maxine Carr, then 25, who was a teaching assistant in Holly and Jessica’s primary school class at St Andrews Primary School in Soham, Cambridgeshire.

Ian Huntley, caretaker at Soham Village College Secondary School, in Soham, Cambridgeshire (Image: PA/PA Wire)

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“I knew where the caretaker’s house was, and it’s quite nearby, and also he seemed........

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