The Soham murder trial jury was sent home tonight after failing to reach verdicts on Mr Ian Huntley and Ms Maxine Carr.
The jury of seven women and five men retired at 11.08 a.m. today after trial judge Mr Justice Moses completed his summing-up of the 27-day case.
He later adjourned the trial until Monday, after the jury had deliberated for just over five hours, warning them not to discuss the case with anybody.
The parents of both 10-year-olds were in court to see the jury sent out, and were accompanied by Holly's brother Oliver, 14, and Jessica's sisters Rebecca and Alison, aged 18 and 15.
The jury returned shortly before lunch and asked to see the bath in which Holly Wells allegedly drowned.
Mr Justice Moses ordered that historic Courtroom Number One be cleared and the bath brought in so the jury could inspect it in private.
They asked to see the bath and to be provided with a tape measure and "straight edge" to judge the depth of the bath.
The bath was previously brought into court during the prosecution case and measured in front of them.
Mr Huntley's legal team initially told them there were some 18 inches of water in the bath when Holly fell into it, but pathologist Dr Nat Cary said the bath's overflow was 11 inches high.
Mr Huntley said in his evidence that he had run six to eight inches of water so he could bathe his dog, Sadie. But the jury has heard that Holly would have displaced water as she fell into it, meaning that the water level would have risen.
Mr Justice Moses said: "What we will do is use the court like an extension of your room.
"We will send you out and we will clear the court... We will have officers bring the bath in so it will be in there.
"You will then be brought in, you may talk among yourselves, the whole place will be completely cleared, no one will hear you."
The jury was then sent out so the court could be cleared. Mr Huntley (29) a former caretaker at Soham Village College, denies murdering Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman on Sunday August 4th last year but has admitted a single charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. The jury has heard he admits Holly died accidentally in his bath and that he killed Jessica as he tried to silence her screams, although he insists he did not mean to kill her.
He bundled their bodies into his car, dumped them in the remote ditch where they were found 13 days later, cut off their clothes and torched their corpses.
His ex-girlfriend Ms Carr (26) a former classroom assistant in the youngsters' class, denies conspiring to pervert the course of justice and two counts of assisting an offender.
She has told the jury that she lied to protect her then fiance, giving him a false alibi, but insisted she never suspected he could be involved in the girls' disappearance.