Ian Huntley says he is ‘sorry’ for murdering Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells

Ian Huntley has said he is "sorry" for murdering Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells.

The schoolgirls were killed in 2002 after they went missing from a barbecue in Cambridgeshire. Huntley was found guilty of murdering the girls when their bodies were discovered two weeks later in Suffolk after an extensive search. The Sun reports that Huntley has said he is "sorry" for killing Chapman and Wells and that he has accepted that he will never leave prison. He said:

"I am genuinely, genuinely sorry and it breaks my heart when it is reported I have no remorse; that I relish something. I do not. "I can’t change anything. I cannot remove that day from history; what I have done. I know those girls would be 26 this year with families of their own, jobs and lives. "I thought about them when they were turning 21 and when they were turning 18."

Chapman and Wells were 10-years-old when they were coerced into Huntley's house on their way back from the shop while attending a barbecue. They were murdered shortly after entering the home. The former caretaker said that he wanted people to know the "truth" about how he felt about the murders. He said:

"I know no matter what I say that people are not going to think any better of me. "I know that, I don’t expect it to but I would much rather people have the truth about how I feel."

Huntley received a life sentence for the murders. His then-girlfriend Maxine Carr was sentenced to three years in prison for giving Huntley a false alibi.