81.   The Belgian media and parents of the dead girls have insisted that Dutroux, a convicted child rapist, must have enjoyed protection to have escaped police attention.

82.   The car-theft investigation was opened at the same time that the authorities began to delve into an alleged paedophile ring involving convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux.

83.   The emaciated bodies of two eight-year-old girls were found at another house owned by convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux nearly two weeks ago.

84.   The latest case comes amid nationwide anguish over another paedophile and murder inquiry, this time into convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux.