On August 4, 2002, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left Holly's home in Redhouse Gardens, Soham, heading out to buy some sweets. They never returned home, and before the end of the month, their bodies were found and the case was dubbed 'The Soham Murders'. A few weeks later, school caretaker Ian Huntley was arrested and charged with the crime of killing the two ten-year-old girls. He was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment, while his girlfriend, Maxine Carr (the girls' teaching assistant), received a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for perverting the course of justice after it was found she had provided him with a false alibi. A clip from the Ian Huntley documentary Soham: 10 Years On [[jwplayerwidget||https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/UmMRT28f-sKUnNGKf.mp4||UmMRT28f]] Now, there is a new documentary set to look back on the crimes, with Channel 5's 'Ian Huntley: 5 Mistakes That Caught A Killer' <a href="https://www.channel5.com/show/5-mistakes-that-caught-a-killer/">airing later tonight</a>. This new documentary details the investigation that eventually found Huntley guilty of the horrible crimes, featuring interviews with those directly involved in the case. Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Stevenson, who was heavily involved in the investigation, gives his first interview since the 2003 trial. <img class="size-full wp-image-12519676" src="https://img.vt.co/2019/05/25404006-gettyimages-1342399.jpg" alt="SOHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 18: Reward posters for Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are shown outside St. Andrew's Church August 18, 2002 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England. The search for Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman has ended, with detectives confirming two bodies found in a remote grassy area are those of the missing girls. Police announced that they are, 'as certain as we possibly can be' that the bodies found August 18, 2002 are of the two 10-year-olds from Soham. Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the girls' disappearance. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)" width="3000" height="1841" />[[imagecaption|| Credit: Getty]] The documentary also sets out to look at the five major mistakes Huntley made that eventually led to his arrest. A spokesperson for the program explained: "Their first error was talking to the media. When Huntley's TV interviews were shown in his home town of Grimsby, people came forward to reveal his murky past. Huntley also switched off one of the girl's mobile phones, triggering a signal to a telecoms mast. "And, he used his own car to transport their bodies to a remote field, later returning to the scene to remove the distinctive Manchester United shirts both girls were wearing -only to hide them in a place where they could be found by police." Ian Huntley: 5 Mistakes That Caught A Killer airs tonight on Channel 5 at 10pm.

Harrowing true-crime documentary about killer Ian Huntley will air on TV tonight

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