One woman phoned the church from Australia at 8am to ask for the address. Now let’s stand united against such evil for future generations.”The need to show sympathy came from far and wide. As the flowers snaked along the tree-lined paths, alongside them were laid teddy bears, fluffy dogs, helium balloons and children’s toys.One message read: “Two angels in heaven. When the shopkeeper found out they were for Soham, he waived the bill.Such was the universal nature of the sadness which had descended like a fog on this market town, everyone wanted to contribute, no one could be seen to profit.The floral tributes – small bunches, large bouquets, single roses – grew with every visitor. We are just numb with shock.”New supplies of candles had been sought in Cambridge by a parishioner.

As each light burnt to the bottom of its wick, it was replaced by another which had been held ready by one of the dozens of residents waiting patiently in line to write messages in two books of condolence.Such was the heat from the impromptu shrine, set below the pictures of the two girls, that the stone on which it stood was too hot to touch for more than a few moments.The Reverend Tim Alban Jones, the vicar whose job it has been to try to give some explanation of the last 15 days not only to Soham’s 9,000 people but to many far beyond, said they could not keep up “We have got through thousands of candles,” he said “We keep running out.”There is palpable grief in the town It’s the only thing people can talk about. By nightfall, it had spread like a tide across the cemetery – row after row of flowers, toys and cards giving shape to a community’s grief.
They had been left by a procession of mothers, teenagers, fathers and grandparents who came to the centre of Soham to show they shared the pain of two families hidden near by in their homes, bent double by an unspeakable crime.Inside the church – a handsome medieval structure that stands at the centre of the town – hundreds of votive candles flickered for Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman on a stone altar. The line began at the wrought-iron gates of St Andrew’s Church at dawn. Mr Byrne denies possessing a bottle as an offensive weapon and all three players deny affray The trial continues.. I was shocked at the allegations against John and, if true, they would be genuinely out of character – I have never seen him behave aggressively or violently to anyone.”Mr Terry denies wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and possessing a bottle as an offensive weapon. He also denied telling police: “I don’t know what you’re on about,” when officers asked him if there had been a fight.The court was read a statement from Mr Terry’s club captain, Graeme Le Saux, capped 36 times for England, who said the central defender would probably have been picked for England’s World Cup squad earlier this year if he had not been facing a trial.Mr Le Saux added: “He behaves politely and I consider him to be of a gentle disposition.

He said: “A very clear thread runs through this case, the thread of the aggression of these three men from first to last.”Mr Morris denied being drunk in the club, saying he had one or two pints of lager, one vodka, lime and lemonade and one B52 cocktail all evening. The player said: “Even before anything spilt out on to the pavement I wasn’t about to do anything – the size of me compared to them I wouldn’t be able to do anything.”He told the jury the fighting started with Mr Thirlwall throwing a punch at Dublin-born Mr Byrne and saying to him: “F*** off, you Irish prick.”In his closing remarks to the jury, Jeremy Donne, prosecuting, claimed the players had invented the racist remark during the trial to justify their actions and asked the jury to avoid “red herrings”. He denied attacking anyone, claiming he was too small to have done so.The 5ft 5in star had been accused of swearing at the club manageress, Sasha Keegan, and had been asked to leave, the court was told.Mr Morris denied swearing at the manageress and said he was talking reasonably with Mr Thirlwall and another bouncer, Shaun Brice, in reception when the violence started. Mr Thirlwall says the player attacked him with a bottle and has told how he felt his eye “explode in blood”.On the 11th day of the trial Mr Morris became the third of the players to give evidence. He had an X-ray and it was confirmed he had a fracture – in the medical textbooks it’s referred to as a boxer’s fracture.”The Chelsea player was on a night out in January this year with his team-mate Jody Morris, 23, and Wimbledon’s Des Byrne, 22, when the fighting broke out.Mr Terry, who was wearing a ring on that hand, has admitted hitting Mr Thirlwall once, but claims it was self-defence. Dr Fraser told a jury at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court in London: “The injury suggested he had broken that bone having put some degree of force through it. A professional footballer punched a nightclub bouncer in the face so hard he broke a bone in his hand, a court was told yesterday.
John Terry, 21, who plays for the Premiership side Chelsea, sustained what doctors call a “boxer’s fracture” near the knuckles of his right hand when he hitTrevor Thirlwall, the club’s medical officer said.The former England Under-21 captain’s hand was examined by Dr Neil Fraser the day after the alleged attack on Mr Thirlwall, 28, at the members- only Wellington nightclub in Knightsbridge, central London, on 4 January.

People on duty after the incident went around making sure security was in place and told security guards to be aware of who was coming in and going out of the building.”We are not sure exactly what happened That’s why we are having a full investigation.”. She is being held at a south London police station.A spokesman for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust said: “Security systems are in place on the ward and the trust will be making a full investigation.”We have been making sure security that should be in place is in place. She refused and the baby was taken from her and security guards called.”The woman believed to be in her late twenties or early thirties was arrested on suspicion of attempted abduction. The woman entered a room on the labour ward and picked up the baby from its cot.”Immediately staff and the mother became concerned and asked her to put the baby down. The baby boy, believed to be one or two days old, was picked up by the woman who refused to return him to his cot when challenged by the mother and staff from Guy’s Hospital in central London on Sunday night.
The nurses reacted quickly and took the baby from the woman and called security guards who detained her and alerted police.A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said: “The baby was not harmed and is with his mother.