Detectives say they have no plans to reinvestigate the Soham murders despite the emergence of a tape in which killer Ian Huntley discusses his crimes.
Details of the tape - which Huntley recorded in prison - were published in a national newspaper. News that the tape existed emerged late last year.
Police sources said detectives had analysed a transcript of the tape prior to details being published in The Sun and concluded it provided no basis for further inquiry.
The tape was found among Huntley's possessions in Wakefield Prison, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in September after he was found unconscious following a suicide bid. Police think that he traded the tape with a fellow inmate in return for anti-depressant pills.
Huntley, 33, is serving two life sentences for the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - and a judge has ruled that he should stay in jail for at least 40 years.
Holly and Jessica, both 10 and from Soham, Cambs, vanished after leaving Holly's home to go for a walk in August 2002. Their bodies were found in a ditch two weeks later.
Huntley, a school caretaker in Soham, and his then girlfriend Maxine Carr, a teaching assistant in Holly and Jessica's junior school class, told police that they knew nothing of the circumstances surrounding the girls' disappearance.
But it emerged at their trial at the Old Bailey in December 2003 that Huntley had met Holly and Jessica as they walked past his home, enticed them inside and killed them before hiding their remains.
Huntley was given two life terms after being found guilty of the girls' murders. Carr, 30, was jailed after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice. She was cleared of assisting an offender.
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In the tape, Huntley discusses the killings - and his version of events differs in some aspects from the story he told during his trial. Huntley also says he wanted to confess but was told by Carr to "pull himself together".
