AA Roadwatch warned travellers, who make an average of 18 million journeys across Britain from tomorrow until the New Year, to prepare for the worst.A spokesman advised travellers to keep warm clothing in their cars as well as a stock of food and water, and a spade for those who were driving on rural routes. Sleet and snow could also spread further to East Anglia and the South-east.Weather experts have not yet determined if Britain will experience a white Christmas but temperatures are set to plunge this weekend. A Met Office spokesman said Sunday’s snow would be a “short sharp shock” after which the climate is likely to become milder in England and Wales. The board has now accepted his resignation and is appreciative of his contribution in resolving this issue.”Dr Irwin is said to have admitted he flew to the Isle of Man two months ago equipped with enough sleeping pills to enable Mr Kneen to commit suicide.But the plan was scrapped when it was realised Mr Kneen was so ill he could only take the pills with help, which would constitute murder. At one point, he said he took her into the bedroom while Jessica used the lavatory.

He said they returned to the bathroom where, he claimed, Holly drowned after accidentally falling into the bath, and he smothered Jessica to stop her screaming Certainly there is an element, if only a tiny one, of truth. Something happened in that bathroom that led to the bath being cracked, that required the mat to be washed.The girls’ teacher, Joy Pederson, said they would stick up for each other. Did Jessica struggle and scream as Huntley deliberately drowned Holly? And did something also happened in the bedroom which meant that a man who had never once felt compelled to do any laundry, washed all the bedclothes including the duvet.He was undoubtedly trying to expunge any DNA traces, whether of semen or of blood. Yet highly sophisticated forensic tests failed to find any trace, and the terribly decomposed state of the girls’ bodies meant that it was impossible to say whether they were sexually assaulted, or not.Something terrible also happened in the dining room The light was torn down and hanging by the cord. The damp carpet and walls were a sign – not, as he claimed, of a flood from upstairs after the dog cracked the bath as he washed her – but of a comprehensive scrubbing. Even the velvet curtains were put in the washing machine.During the following days the cottage would be subjected to an intensive clean-up.

Not a single one of the girls’ hairs was found and the only evidence of fingerprints was on a box of chocolates Holly had bought for Carr at the end of term.From here the details become clearer. From the moment the former caretaker realised he had two dead children on his hands, he began covering his tracks with cold precision. He placed the two small bodies in the boot of his red Ford Fiesta. He then drove down small side- roads, unlined by CCTV cameras, to an isolated spot he knew well, close to his father’s old home and his grandmother’s warden-controlled accommo-dation. Lakenheath airbase, Suffolk, was a favourite place, where he had spent many hours plane-spotting.Down Common Drove, a tree-lined rough track, he went, as the light began to fade. Knowing that the only people who ventured this way were farmers and the occasional dog-walker, he dumped the girls’ bodies in an irrigation ditch. Side by side, the girls were left to the elements.He was back in Soham by 10.30pm, walking his dog.

Nearby, two men were searching for the missing school children. As Huntley strolled past the girls’ school, St Andrews Primary, he must have heard Kevin Wells calling out his daughter’s name.That night, he would mingle with the searchers, going as far as “helpfully” showing a police dog handler around the college grounds. When Mr Wells and two friends turned up at the college, he calmly told them it had already been searched. In the fortnight which followed he schemed to divert attention from himself and mislead the investigation He hung around the police van trying to listen to the radio.