This week marks an agonising anniversary that no parent should ever have to experience. It was twenty years ago that best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were callously murdered by Ian Huntley as they walked from a family barbecue to buy a packet of sweets.
It took almost two weeks of tireless searching by their families, police and the community before the bodies of the 10 year olds were found lying in a shallow grave. And the man who did it? It was a man they should have been able to trust completely. School caretaker Huntley was jailed for life and must serve at least 40 years of his sentence before he's eligible for parole.
However, while Huntley committed the murders that horrified Britain, his girlfriend, Maxine Carr, lied to the police to protect the twisted killer.