FRAMINGHAM, MA – Traffic slowed and snarled and parking was at a premium around the Framingham District Courthouse on Concord St. on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006 as media and curious onlookers descended upon Framingham for the arraignment of Neil Entwistle on charges of the double homicide of his wife and daughter. Entwistle appeared in the Framingham Court because the district court issued the search and arrest warrant.

Cameramen and their equipment had been camped out on the lawn, and TV satellite trucks staked out the parking lot in the days preceding the expected arrival of Entwistle from England.

The parents and family of his wife attended the afternoon proceedings, the women carrying flowers. Entwistle barely looked at them.

Framingham District Court Judge Robert Greco ordered Entwistle held without bail until his next day in court. Entwistle left the court in orange garb of a county jail inmate and faced the jeers of onlookers as well as a barrage of cameras and an International cadre of dozens of reporters as he left the courthouse for the Middlesex County Jail in Cambridge.

Cameras and TV satellite trucks remained on the courthouse lawn and parking lot well into Thursday evening.

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