Sleuth who helped nail Ian Huntley with a bunch of nettles and a twig
IT was the trace of pollen on Ian Huntley's shoes that eventually helped crack the mystery of the sickening Soham murders.It was thanks to the experiments of the expert, dubbed 'Pollen Pat', that police were able to determine nettles had been trampled 13 and a half days before the grim discovery.
How Ian Huntley exposed guilt at brutal Soham murders seven times in seven seconds in police interview 20 years agoI well remember it was the ‘no news’ time of high summer. People were away enjoying themselves, life was uneventful, and the country seemed calm. If the hair had been plucked from a ten-year-old child, it must have been carried aloft on someone’s shoulders, otherwise their head wouldn’t have reached the branch.The simplest explanation was that this long hair had come from a girl, and possibly Holly or Jessica, and if the hair still had its root, identification could easily be achieved by DNA analysis.
I very much doubt that any other person will ever have witnessed quite what I did when sitting in that ditch that day.IN 2002, the disappearance and murders of school friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman horrified the nation.Holly was the daughter of parents Kevin and Nicola Wells, and Jessica was born to parents Sharon and Leslie Chapman.was living at Five College Close, in the same town with his then-girlfriend Maxine Carr, a teaching assistant in the two girls' class.
Nearly two weeks later, Holly and Jessica's remains were discovered in a ditch at an air base 14 miles away at Mildenhall,Carr was jailed for perverting the course of justice and released in 2004 with a new identity. It struck me that the girls were lying in a green cathedral of a place, and it was quite dark because of the brooding, dominating alder trees overhanging the site. I listed every species of plant I could find in and around the ditch.
We all agreed where the vehicle might have stopped in relation to the offender pathway, and I made sure that I took plenty of individual samples from the very surface of the two soils all around the imaginary car that I could see in my mind’s eye.I particularly concentrated on where feet may have trodden in relation to front and back doors and the boot, and carefully recorded the positions of my samples.
The red football jerseys had alder cones sticking to their fronts, backs, and sleeves, and this suggested that they had lain directly under, or close to, alder trees. I also needed to obtain samples of soil and vegetation so that I could compare any microscopic evidence with whatever I retrieved from the belongings of an offender.
After 17 days of searching her body was found in a field, around 15 miles from where she disappeared in Kingston Gorse. The fields had been, and still were, in some cases, planted with wheat and potatoes. If the offender had walked along the boundary hedges, the pollen or spores of any of these plants could have been picked up on his shoes and clothing.
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