Ian Huntley's horrific crimes have been put into the primetime TV spotlight this week, thanks to Channel 5 true crime drama Maxine, 20 years after he murdered school girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
It was in August 2002 that the two 10-year-olds went missing after a barbecue, with their frantic families contacting police after they failed to return. After police were contacted and a huge search was launched, media descended on the girl's quiet hometown of Soham in East Cambridgeshire as Holly and Jessica's disappearance dominated local and national news.
Huntley, who was working as a caretaker at Soham College at the time, was one of the locals who gave an interview to TV reporters, when all along, he had already killed the innocent youngsters. Huntley was given an alibi by then girlfriend Maxine Carr, who claimed she in the house with Ian when Holly and Jessica spoke to him outside on the night they went missing. That was a lie as she was actually in Grimsby at the time and Huntley was eventually convicted after suspicions were raised and the girls' destroyed Manchester United tops were found in a bin in the college.
