She wrote a string quartet drawing on the hymns she’d sung at school, “and I was worried because that sort of thing was not allowed”. I thought it was more interesting to start composing without knowing where you were going, letting intuition guide you.”"I remember Nicola asking, ‘How can you just pluck notes out of the air?’ And I replied, ‘Because that’s where they belong’. “Normally before a case starts you would not hear anything about it but for reasons I will come to it is necessary to tell you that.”He then asked anyone who had a relative or friend from the Soham area or connected to the investigation to alert him to the fact. With 100 potential candidates filling the court room, the judge took the rare step of revealing the case to be considered. “It concerns the death of two girls in Soham, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman,” he said. Kevin and Nicola Wells arrived with Sharon and Leslie Chapman and a team of police family liaison officers.

Mr Huntley, a former school caretaker and Ms Carr, a classroom assistant, who are both from Soham, sat with a security officer.Mr Justice Moses presided in court number one, where the slow process of selecting the jury began. Their parents, Kevin and Nicola Wells and Sharon and Leslie Chapman, braved an army of photographers waiting outside the court yesterday. The 10-year-olds disappeared from their homes in Soham, Cambridgeshire, on 4 August last year, triggering one of the biggest manhunts seen in Britain They were found dead 13 days later. Also on trial is his former partner Maxine Carr, 26, who denies two charges of assisting an offender and one of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. About half a dozen floral tributes were left outside the Old Bailey yesterday as the selection of jurors began for the trial of Ian Huntley, who is accused of murdering the Soham schoolgirls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Mr Huntley, 29, denies two counts of murder. She agreed to unsafe sex after he assured her he had had a vasectomy. The woman was diagnosed with HIV in 1998.Dica, who is married with three children, met his second victim in 2000 at an office party.

Identified only as Deborah, she left her boyfriend of 18 years for Dica, who deceived her into thinking he was a lawyer and Gulf war veteran.She agreed to unprotected sex after he said he had difficulty using condoms.Outside court, Detective Sergeant Jo Goodall appealed to other women who might have been infected by Dica to contact the police.. The judge said: “In each case you abused a loving relationship, loving on one side at any rate, and inflicted GBH. Each woman is now infected with an incurable disease, has suffered a florid effect of the infection and manages to control her life but only with very frequent and heavy medication and that on a permanent basis.”Last month the former solicitors’ clerk became the first person to be found guilty of inflicting “biological” grievous bodily harm.It was the first successful prosecution for passing on a sexually transmitted disease in England and Wales for 137 years.Dica’s first victim, a 37-year-old who cannot be named, met him in 1997 after her marriage collapsed and he offered support. He showed no reaction as Judge Nicholas Philpot, at the Inner London Crown Court, told him his behaviour was “despicable” and that he had shown no remorse.

The divorcee and a woman with two children could die from Aids within 10 years.Dica, of Mitcham in south London, is thought not to have long to live. A man who was convicted of “biological” grievous bodily harm for knowingly infecting two women with HIV was jailed for eight years yesterday.
Mohammed Dica, 38, was diagnosed with HIV in 1996, but went on to “coldly and callously” trick two women into having unprotected sex with him. amounting to little more than soft pornography.”He said British judges had failed to follow the lead of the Germans and the French in developing a balance between the rights of celebrities “to a bit of peace and the rights of the journalists to tell all”.The High Court ruled in April that the wedding of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones was private and that Hello! had acted “unconscionably” by publishing snatched photographs of the couple without their permission But it did not uphold a freestanding right to privacy.. He said the recent publication of a story about the Premiership footballer Gary Flitcroft was “highly invasive … Celebrties need protection from the intrusive behaviour of the tabloid press, one of the judges in the Michael Douglas privacy case said yesterday. They planned to take the 777-carat Millennium Star and 11 rare blue diamonds – although the gems had been secretly replaced with fakes. At the Court of Appeal yesterday, Edmund Romilly, who is representing Betson, said: “Statements from two people present at the trial show that the judge fell asleep on a number of occasions.”Mr Romilly added: “Statements I have seen suggest that the learned judge fell asleep not just during a closing speech, but also during the evidence.”.

Betson, 41, from Chatham, Kent, was sentenced last year for the raid in November 2000 when more than 100 armed police officers stopped the gang from smashing open the De Beers exhibition vault in the Dome. It is just a macho desire to show force and authority and innocent people are being hurt,” he said.. A leader of an armed gang jailed for trying to steal £200m in diamonds from the Millennium Dome said yesterday that he should be freed because his trial judge fell asleep. “A few weeks ago a man tried to kick the door down at the house and there was an incident when police were called.”Firearms incidents in Merseyside have increased by 7.6 per cent over the past year, compared with a 35 per cent increase nationally, but the number of weapons confiscations by police has doubled.Norman Bettison, Chief Constable of Merseyside, said his officers had a “reasonable idea what the motive may have been”, and had a number of people they wanted to interview “This type of feud has to stop.