DISTRAUGHT Kevin Wells has told how he learnt of his daughter Holly's murder from a clairvoyant just two days after she disappeared with her friend Jessica Chapman. The desperate father said he turned to psychic Dennis McKenzie after the police kept him in the dark during the early days of their search for the 10-year-olds.
Mr McKenzie, gave the frustrated father a chillingly accurate account of what had happened to Holly and Jessica. Not only was he able to tell them the girls were dead but he described one male and one female suspect who bore a striking resemblance to murderer Ian Huntley and his girlfriend Maxine Carr. He also told businessman Mr Wells, 40, and wife Nicola, 36, he could see a red car similar to Huntley's Ford Fiesta, used to move the bodies to dump in a ditch.
Mr Wells said: "Mr McKenzie offered details he could not have known, such as the name of her favourite shop in Cambridge and the nickname she alone had for her brother: 'Olls'. We passed the details to the police but they were treated coolly."
After they contacted Cambridge-based Mr McKenzie on the recommendation of a friend, he asked if they wanted the whole truth. When they said they did, he told them: "I'm so sorry but both girls are dead." He spoke of a young man with dark, cropped hair and a woman with "mouse-like" features. He also mentioned an older man: Huntley's father Kevin, in whose house the killer was arrested.
In a second meeting, Mr McKenzie said the girls were victims of "anger" rather than sex and that they had died before 8pm on Sunday, August 4, last year - the night they disappeared. "This was, of course, several months before Huntley admitted that for the first time in the witness box, " he said.
