First reporter to interview Soham killer was suspicious from start

Press Association journalist Brian Farmer leaves the Old Bailey Criminal Court in central London, after giving evidence in the trial of Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr (Johnny Green/PA) - (PA Archive)

The first reporter to interview Ian Huntley before he was arrested on suspicion of murdering two 10-year-olds has told of what led him to report the former school caretaker to the police.

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.