Maxine Carr: Old clip shows Ian Huntley’s fiancée LAUGHING while talking about Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman
An old interview clip has shockingly shown the former fiancée of Ian Huntley laughing while talking about the victims – Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman – to a BBC journalist. Wells and Chapman were killed by Huntley on August 4, 2002 in Soham, England, and Maxine Carr, who was the killer’s girlfriend, had tried to block the course of justice by lying.
In the re-emerged footage, the woman also apparently referred to the girls in the past tense despite the fact that when the interview was conducted, Wells and Chapman were still only considered missing. At the time, Huntley was not taken into custody either. The Daily Mail reported that Carr, who was the girls' teaching assistant, was featured in BBC Look East’s 2002 interview alongside the murderer.
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The woman, wearing red lipstick and laughing openly, told journalist Rachael Dane that the schoolgirls, both 10, “always used to come up to me and confide in me and show me their boyfriends.” She also went on to say that while Wells “was just like a little angel,” the other girl was “very funny”.
During the interview, cameraman Shaun Whitmore reportedly interrupted Carr, mentioning that she was using past tense while speaking about the pair. The woman just remarked “God” and chuckled. She then went on to talk before making the same mistake again. Carr claimed Chapman “never looked feminine, she always looked more tomboyish”.
As per reports, the interview was played before the court when Carr and Huntley's trials were going on. At the time, she claimed to be unaware of the fact that her then-boyfriend took the lives of the two girls. During the trial, mobile phone data was also presented before the jury that showed she was visiting her mother in Grimsby when the victims vanished. She also got a call from Huntley on August 5 morning.
Carr told the jurors at the time that the murderer was emotional during the phone call. He had told her that he was also helping police in the search operation. “I'm going to get fitted up like I did before,” she said Huntley told her. Besides, in her defense, the woman added that she provided the false alibi because she trusted the killer. She said, “I just knew Ian, I knew he wouldn't have done anything like that. I would have been out of that house like a shot. Straight to the police or straight to the nearest person to tell them.”
Carr’s QC Michael Hubbard had also pointed out, “She shared the same bed as Huntley. Would she have allowed the hand that had drowned Holly and killed Jessica, on his account, to wander over her body on the succeeding days? It's against every female instinct, isn't it? Did she know or believe he had killed those children? On the evidence, no.”
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However, Carr was eventually convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by giving him a false alibi. In 2003, she was awarded three and a half years of jail time. But she served only 21 months behind bars and was given protection by a lifelong anonymity order.