When Maxine Carr hooked up with Ian Huntley, she thought it was a match made in heaven – but their toxic relationship unleashed hell. She became one of Britain’s most hated women after she provided manipulative Huntley with an alibi for the Soham murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman 20 years ago.
So sickening was her crime the authorities had no choice but to give Maxine a £1million-a-year secret identity after she had served time for perverting the course of justice. And, 20 years after Huntley lured the schoolgirls into the couple’s home, married Carr, now 45, remains cloaked in an anonymity order far from the scene of the crime that shocked Britain.
She is one of only a handful of former prisoners protected by a lifelong injunction – along with Mary Bell, who killed two little boys when she was 11 in 1968, and James Bulger’s killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables.
