Maxine Carr 20 years after Soham murders as she has 'white wedding, husband and baby'
04.08.2022 - 14:47
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Today marks twenty years since schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman vanished on their way to buy sweets.
The girls had left a family BBQ in the sleepy town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, and their bodies were discovered almost two weeks later in woodland.
Holly and Jessica, both aged 10, were murdered by evil school caretaker Ian Huntley who received a false alibi from his partner Maxine Carr, now 45.
Carr, who worked as a teaching assistant at the little girls' school, was jailed for 42 months and released from Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire in May 2004 after serving half her sentence.
But the strength of public hatred meant she had to be given a new identity by the courts and given round-the-clock protection, the Mirror reports.
She was moved to more than 10 different safe houses in two years, and in 2011 it was reported that she had given birth to her first child - a son - in a secret safe house.
In 2012 she was believed to have started a serious relationship with a man who is aware of her past.
As of 2014, she was said to have been living in a seaside town, where she worked 10 hours a week in a shop.
The town cannot be named because of the lifetime anonymity order granted to Maxine Carr by the High Court ten years ago.
She is just one of four ex-UK prisoners protected by lifelong anonymity – along with James Bulger's murderers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables and child killer Mary Bell.
And that same year she apparently got married to a man in a £2,000 wedding with all the trimmings.
According to the Daily Mail, the pair tied the knot at a secret hotel, with the bride wearing a £2,000 ivory dress.
Her husband-to-be walked her down the aisle, sources said, adding that they feasted on a three-course wedding breakfast and