Soham accused Mr Ian Huntley admits setting fire to the bodies of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, the Old Bailey heard today.
The news came in a series of admissions read on behalf of him and his defence team during his trial for the murder of the two 10-year-old schoolgirls.
Earlier, the jury heard him tearfully insisting to his mother that Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left his home alive on the night they disappeared. The covert recording was made while Mr Huntley was being held in jail.
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Mr Ian Huntley
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At one point he tells his mother Ms Lynda Nixon: "I can remember them leaving the house . . . I know why they came in the house as well, one of them had a nosebleed, I was on the doorstep brushing Sadie and one of them had a nosebleed."
He then appeared to falter saying: "I don't know, I don't know, I can't, I can't say."
The jury also heard the distraught sobs of Mr Huntley's girlfriend, Ms Maxine Carr, as she told her lover's mother: "I don't understand why this had to happen."
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The jury was told the phone calls were the only remaining piece of evidence in the prosecution case against Ms Carr and Mr Huntley.
Mr Huntley (29) the former caretaker at Soham Village College, denies the murder of ten-year-old Holly and Jessica but has admitted one charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Ms Carr (26) a former teaching assistant at the girls' primary school, denies the conspiracy charge and two counts of assisting an offender.
In the Huntley tape, recorded at Woodhill Prison on October 23rd last year, the defendant starts by telling his mother: "They want to restart the investigation because they have got nothing."
He goes on to tell her that police only found one fingerprint on a box of chocolates in the house, adding: "I do not know how the fingerprint on the chocolates came to be there, I really don't."
He tells his mother that he is going to write to Ms Carr to ask her because he was aware that she got chocolates and cards from pupils at the end of term.
His mother says: "They did, they did." Mr Huntley responds: "That's that then. That was the only thing I could not explain."
They talk about what he could remember from the Sunday the girls went missing but Huntley soon turns the conversation to his state of mind.
He says: "There's nothing I can do if the doctor said I am unfit. Like yesterday, I just shutdown yesterday, Mum. I do not know why, I cannot stop it. You know it is happening but cannot stop it."
He goes on: "You've no idea what that feels like . . . you find yourself huddled up next to a toilet on the floor."
Mr Latham said Huntley then began crying. His mother said: "They cannot interview you when in a state."
Mr Huntley: "Believe me there's nothing, I would love to speak to them, there's so much I want to say to them."
Later in the conversation he said: "I remember what they said and everything but I can't say too much."
In a later conversation Mr Huntley said: "I haven't done it, I haven't done it."
He went on: "I remember them girls leaving my house, I'm adamant, I'm 100 per cent. "Remember them girls leaving my house."
He also claims someone could have been following the girls when they left his house at Soham Village College, where Holly and Jessica's clothes were later found dumped in a bin.
He told his mother: "I think someone's been following those girls, seen those girls at my bloody house knowing full well they'd find some DNA at my house, buggered off and put the clothes at the school so they'll think I've done it."
In the Carr tape she can be heard sobbing hysterically as she told Mrs Nixon: "I don't understand, I don't understand why."
Parts of the tape were virtually inaudible as Ms Carr sobbed: "I want to speak to him so much, I don't know what I'm going to do."
"They have just told me that Ian was there and I couldn't speak to him."
Mrs Nixon said: "You can't speak to him darling." Ms Carr: "I wanted to speak to him so much."
At one point during the conversation Mrs Nixon tells a tearful Ms Carr: "The police know you have not done anything, Maxine."
Ms Carr, still sounding distraught, said: "I still do not know why it's happened."
Mrs Nixon asked her during their conversation: "You know on the Sunday that you spoke to him, did you discuss lying?"
Ms Carr replied: "No, not on Sunday, on the Monday."
Mrs Nixon asked: "Is there anything else you know?"
Ms Carr: "I don't know anything else. They wanted to ask me about the case but my solicitor told me not to speak about it.
"I don't know what to think, Lynda. Something's wrong. Something happened, I don't know what."
Mrs Nixon said she had had asked Mr Huntley whether the girls went into the house.
She said: "I asked him that question, did they come in the house and he wouldn't answer it.
"I asked him if any of the girls went in the house, he said he couldn't remember but it was funny, Maxine, I got this distinct impression he could remember."
The jury has heard that Mr Huntley now admits that the girls died in his house but claims Holly died when she fell in the bathroom, where she had gone because a nosebleed.
He says Jessica died when he tried to stop her screaming. The jury has been told that Mr Huntley has also admitted disposing of their bodies and removing their clothes and dumping them in the bin at the college.
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