The disappearance of two schoolgirls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, shocked the nation twenty years ago this week and sparked a huge manhunt during the summer holidays of 2002 in Soham.
But there has been little publicity about the breakthrough by an eagle-eyed newspaper reader that led police to first come across murderer Ian Huntley as a potential suspect.
The hero reader made a call to the Grimsby Telegraph 12 days after the 10-year-old girls first went missing regarding Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr. They had seen local college caretaker, Huntley, being interviewed by television broadcasters.
