Maxine Carr is the subject of a new Channel 5 drama, 20 years on from her then boyfriend Ian Huntley murdering school girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
The peaceful community of Soham in East Cambridge was rocked to its core in the summer of 2022, when best friends Holly and Jessica went missing after going out with each other. Their families raised the alarm after the two youngsters failed to return home and it didn't take long for the country's media to descend on the sleepy village.
School caretaker Huntley, the man now serving a 40 year sentence behind bars for Holly and Jessica's murders, infamously appeared on camera during a news broadcast, saying how he knew the girls and hoped for their safe return, when in reality, he had already killed them. Huntley was brought to justice after police found the girls' burned Manchester United shirts in a bin at the college where he worked and Holly and Jessica's bodies were discovered in a ditch near RAF Lakenheath.
Huntley, whose name appeared in court reports and allegations of previous sex attacks, had obtained the job as a caretaker at Soham College using his mother's maiden name to disguise his previous activity, with Carr working as a teaching assistant at the primary school attended by Holly and Jessica.
She was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for conspiring with Huntley to pervert the course of justice and . Over the years there have been plenty of rumours about where Carr has been living,
And now she is the focus of Maxine, a three part true crime drama which will launch on Channel 5 on Monday, October 10. As well as looking at the investigation into Holly and Jessica's disappearance, it will also examine the relationship between the killer and the girlfriend who gave him an alibi.
Jemma Carlton plays Carr, with Line of Duty star Scott Reid as Huntley and a trailer, which aired on Channel 5 on Saturday night, featuring scene where Huntley shouts: "You tell me don't look so guilty....don't look so bloody cheery!"
It also features a dramatization of an interview Maxine gave to a news reporter before Holly and Jessica's bodies were found, in which she referred to them in the past tense.
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