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.
