Murdered girl's screams of terror ignored

None of the six neighbours of murdered schoolgirl Vicky Hall who heard a scream "like something out of a horror film" made any attempt to help, a court heard today.

One woman jumped out of her bed and another sat upright in bed, but nobody investigated it.

The residents of the Farmlands estate in the Suffolk village of Trimley St Mary also heard a car "with a noisy kind of exhaust" roaring away in the early hours of the morning when Vicky, 17, disappeared.

Jill Butterworth told Norwich Crown Court she considered ringing the police but after hearing the car pulling away thought to herself: "What can they do anyway?"

The court has been told that Adrian Bradshaw, 27, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering Miss Hall, owned a Porsche 944 car with a "throaty" exhaust.

The Crown claims Bradshaw abducted her near her home in November 1999. Her body was dumped in a ditch 25 miles away. She had been suffocated. The trial continues.