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- Alison Graham
Two little girls wearing Manchester United replica kits. Best friends. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Both aged ten. Frozen in time at 5.04pm on Sunday, 2 August, 2002, when this last picture (inset above) was taken on the day they were murdered.
Holly and Jessica left a barbecue in the village of Soham in Cambridgeshire at 6.15pm and were never seen alive by their loved ones again. They were killed by school caretaker Ian Huntley. He burnt those shirts and dumped the girls’ bodies in a ditch where they were found nearly two weeks later.
In A Parent’s Tale, Holly Wells’s parents, Kevin and Nicola, lead us through the decade since their daughter died. There is sorrow, and tears. But mother and father insist that they refused to let their daughter’s murderer destroy their lives. “I would not let Huntley take any more from me,” says Kevin Wells.
About this programme
A decade after the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in the Cambridgeshire town of Soham, Holly's parents, Kevin and Nicola, talk about their loss, how they have coped since school caretaker Ian Huntley committed the crimes, and the positive steps they have taken to honour the memory of their daughter.
Cast and crew
Crew
- Director
- Ruth Gray
- Executive Producer
- Mark Scantlebury
- Producer
- Ruth Gray
- Writer
- Ruth Gray
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