Soham suspects Mr Ian Huntley and Ms Maxine Carr have appeared at the Old Bailey in London in connection with next week's murder trial.
The parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were also at the pre-trial hearing. Details of the hearing cannot be reported for legal reasons.
Mr Huntley (29), and his former girlfriend Ms Carr (26), will both return to the court on Monday next week for the start of the trial.
Mr Huntley, the former caretaker at Soham Village College in Cambridgeshire, denies the murder of the two Soham schoolgirls last year.
Ms Carr, a former teaching assistant at the two 10-year-olds' primary school in Soham, denies two charges of assisting an offender and a single charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
They were arrested weeks after the best friends went missing on August 4th last year. The girls' bodies were found nearly two weeks later.
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