Soham killer Ian Huntley claims it was his girlfriend Maxine Carr who orchestrated the cover-up of the deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, it was reported today.
In a taped confession from his prison cell, Huntley said Carr told him to burn the girls' bodies to get rid of any evidence after they were dumped in a ditch near Lakenheath air base in Suffolk.
The revelation challenges the verdict of the jury at the trial which cleared Carr on two counts of assisting an offender.
It was also reported that Huntley (30) said it was Carr (27) who cleaned the house and told him to clean the car and lie to police after he told her the girls were dead.
He reportedly went on to describe how she told him to burn the bodies.
He said: "Maxine wanted me to go back. She told me to destroy all the evidence. I didn't know what she meant at first. And then she explained exactly what she meant.
"Which is where the petrol can and everything came in.
"And that makes me feel 10 times worse, on top of everything else, because to do that was unforgivable."
Huntley was convicted of the murders of Holly and Jessica, from Soham, Cambridgeshire, at the Old Bailey last December. Ex-fiancee Carr was sentenced to three and a half years for conspiring with Huntley to pervert the course of justice.
Carr's lawyer, Mr Roy James, said she denied the allegations "in the strongest possible terms". He said: "I have grave concerns that repetition of these falsehoods put her at even greater risk that she is at the moment."
PA