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  Maxine Carr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maxine Carr (born February 14, 1977) was the girlfriend of Ian Huntley at the time he committed the August 4, 2002 Soham murders.
On May 10, 2004, Carr pleaded guilty to twenty counts of benefit fraud and of lying on job applications.
Carr was released on probation on 14 May 2004 after becoming eligible for parole.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maxine_Carr   (296 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Magazine | How Maxine Carr might start a new life
Maxine Carr, the ex-fiancée of Soham murderer Ian Huntley, is expected to be freed this week under a shroud of secrecy.
Resettling Carr is likely to be a difficult task, not least because of the high profile of the Soham case and the intense public emotions it still provokes.
Carr may strive for anonymity and time to re-adjust to life outside, but journalists are likely to seek her out.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/3700583.stm   (825 words)

  
 the f-word - Crime and Punishment: Maxine Carr and other 'evil women'
However, the media treatment of Maxine Carr is worth considering more closely as part of a feminist awareness of discrimination and prejudice against her as a representative of women associated with, or accused of, violent acts.
My view is that Carr is receiving extreme and unusual treatment because she is a woman, and that this has wider implications for all women in Britain in terms of how we are or might be treated as convicted or suspected criminals.
Carr's legal team shrewdly used this as part of her defence, posing the rhetorical question of whether a woman who knew her fiancé had attacked two young girls could have allowed him to touch her ever again.
www.thefword.org.uk /features/crime.live   (3012 words)

  
 Maxine Carr is released from prison
Maxine Carr, the former girlfriend of Soham murderer Ian Huntley, has been released from jail after serving a sentence for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Carr, 27, was convicted in December of the conspiracy charge after it was found that she had lied to police investigating the murders of Sarah Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Carr was handed down a three-year community rehabilitation order earlier this week after she pleaded guilty to 20 charges of benefit fraud and lying on job applications.
www.4ni.co.uk /nationalnews.asp?id=29104   (402 words)

  
 Maxine Carr's bid for early release is denied   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Carr was sentenced to three-and-a-half years at the Old Bailey in December for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Carr could yet be considered for early release in May, when she will have served half her sentence, on the grounds of good conduct.
Maxine Carr's former boyfriend, Ian Huntley, was handed down two life sentences for the murder of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
www.4ni.co.uk /nationalnews.asp?ID=25691   (417 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Maxine Carr: I live in fear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MAXINE Carr last night broke her silence for the first time since her release from prison and said she now lives in "fear for my life".
Carr was given a new identity following her release after serving 21 months of a 42-month jail sentence for perverting the course of justice.
Carr claimed to be "grateful" that many people who recognised her were polite and said others had told her they believed she had been poorly treated.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=851582004   (932 words)

  
 The Scotsman - UK - Should Maxine Carr be allowed to live a normal life?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
NORMAL life for Maxine Carr, prior to the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, meant lying, cheating, defrauding the state and indulging in a deeply unhealthy and warped relationship with a man who had preyed on young women and girls for a number of years.
Carr was not involved in the murders of the two Soham children but she was involved with Ian Huntley.
Carr is a woman who is used to lying to get what she wants, be it public sympathy in the immediate aftermath of the murders, money, or a job at Soham College, where she falsified her CV.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=547732004   (1400 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
Maxine Carr was moved from prison in preparation for release yesterday 24 hours after a dossier containing details about her was stolen from a civil servant's car.
Carr, the former fiancee of the Soham murderer Ian Huntley, was moved from Foston Hall prison, near Derby, and placed in police custody ahead of her expected release tomorrow.
Carr was jailed for three and a half years at the Old Bailey last December for conspiring with Huntley to pervert the course of justice after the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/13/ncarr13.xml   (341 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Maxine Carr's new identity papers stolen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Story in full DOCUMENTS revealing the secret new identity of Maxine Carr were stolen, it emerged yesterday, as she was transferred from prison ahead of her imminent release.
Carr, 27, the former girlfriend of the Soham murderer, Ian Huntley, was transferred from HMP Foston Hall, near Derby, yesterday before her full release at the end of the week.
Carr was jailed in December last year for 42 months after being convicted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=543992004   (815 words)

  
 Maxine Carr released on parole - Breaking News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Maxine Carr, 27, was released from prison custody after spending half of a 42-month sentence behind bars after being convicted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Carr was the live-in companion of Ian Huntley, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, in the east of England.
Carr, a teaching assistant at the girls' school, has been given a new identity by the Home Office, amid fears that her life might come under threat after she was vilified in the popular press for her part in the crime.
www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/15/1084570987079.html   (441 words)

  
 Sobbing Maxine points finger at Huntley - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Carr, a former classroom assistant in Holly and Jessica's class, has admitted lying to protect her ex-lover but denies perverting the course of justice to help Huntley.
Carr, dressed in a fl polo neck and light grey jacket and wearing a silver chain round her neck, was in the witness box on day 23 of the trial.
Carr agreed she had found it strange Huntley had tried to use the washing machine for the first time after she found their duvet in the washing machine when she got home from Grimsby — two days after the girls disappeared.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5021671.shtml   (1116 words)

  
 spiked-liberties | Column | Maxine Carr: Victim, villain - or what?
The intensity of interest in Maxine Carr, and the strength of feeling about what should happen to her now and in the future, cannot be explained as a consequence of the crime for which she was convicted, and for which she has now served her time.
Maxine Carr, Huntley's girlfriend at the time, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice by giving Huntley a false alibi - clearly because she could not believe he had committed the murders.
The demonisation of Maxine Carr is disturbing in the extent to which it inflates one understandable crime - the provision of a false alibi for one's partner - into the status of a multiple child-killing.
www.spiked-online.com /Articles/0000000CA526.htm   (1380 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Blake Morrison on Maxine Carr
Maxine Carr was never accused of being more than a minor player in the Soham murders.
In Carr's case, suspicion rested on a handful of a details, which the Crown took as damning evidence and for which her defence said there was a perfectly innocent explanation.
But what is certain is that he was angry with Carr and that murdering the girls - in rage or vengeance, or as a punishment for their femaleness - followed his argument with her.
www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1109064,00.html   (1734 words)

  
 Future Books - " Flowers in Gods Garden " - Articles - 26/06/03 - Maxine Carr's cry for help
MAXINE Carr slashed her wrist in her cell days before ex-lover Ian Huntley tried to kill himself.
It is believed Carr had grown more and more depressed after a female therapist, who had conducted several counselling sessions with her, left the prison and was not replaced.
Carr was first placed on the 2052 register on her arrival at Holloway in August.
www.bernardomahoney.com /forthcb/pdt/articles/mccfh.shtml   (707 words)

  
 Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - Maxine Carr's namesakes fearful of jail release
Carr acquired her reviled status after partner Ian Huntley murdered 10-year-old girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in the town of Soham, eastern England, in August 2002.
Although she was in a different part of the country when Huntley committed the crime, Carr was convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice in 2003 at one of the highest-profile trials Britain has seen for many years.
Another Maxine Carr - one of just 17 in Britain - told the newspaper that she was dreading this moment.
www.websleuths.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7447   (360 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - UK - Maxine Carr keeps secret identity because of risk she'll be killed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MAXINE Carr, the former girlfriend of the Soham murderer, Ian Huntley, yesterday won an indefinite order protecting her new identity to fend off the "real and significant risk" of injury or death.
Carr, 27, whose fight for anonymity has been funded by legal aid, was not present.
In December 2003, Carr was convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice with Huntley, who killed the schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=212482005   (819 words)

  
 Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - MAXINE CARR: WHY I LIED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MAXINE Carr admitted lying to protect Ian Huntley because he was once falsely charged with rape, a court heard yesterday.
Carr, 26, and Soham school caretaker Huntley, 29, were arrested on suspicion of murdering the girls on August 17 last year, 13 days after they disappeared.
Carr also claimed to an officer who was "intrigued" about the crack that Sadie had been in season and "adamant" to run away.
www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13666740&method=full   (1526 words)

  
 C4 News - UK - Crime - Maxine Carr explains her lies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On the nineteenth day of this trial, Michael Hubbard QC put his client Maxine Carr into the witness box with the words to the jury that if she knew or believed Ian Huntley had murdered or killed either of these girls, she would have been horrified.
He said Maxine Carr admits to lying But he asked the jury not to judge her morally, as tempting as it is he said but to decide if criminal liability is attached to her for the lies she told.
Maxine Carr returned to Holloway prison tonight, to the place where she told the court today she's regarded by some as Myra Hunldey mark 2.
www.channel4.com /news/2003/12/week_1/03_soham.html   (1061 words)

  
 Maxine Carr faces fraud charges
Carr, 26, was jailed for 3-1/2 years for lying to police investigating the disappearance of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire.
Carr was sentenced last December but had been in jail on remand since August 2002 when the girls disappeared.
Carr had told police she was in the bath at home with Huntley when the girls disappeared.
www.tiscali.co.uk /news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2004/03/11/topnews/maxinecarrfacesfraudcharges.html   (411 words)

  
 Carr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A carr is a north European wetland, a fen overgrown with trees.
It approximates to the North American term, swamp but does not include the swamps of warmer climates such as that of Florida.
Carr may also refer to the U.S. Supreme Court case, Baker v.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carr   (146 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Maxine Carr loses bid for early release
Maxine Carr, the former girlfriend of Soham murderer Ian Huntley, today failed in her application to be released early from prison under an electronic tagging system.
Carr, who was jailed for three-and-half years for perverting the course of justice during the police investigation into the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, had been put forward for release by Ed Willetts, governor of Holloway prison.
The Prison Service released a letter sent to Carr by Mr Narey which explained his decision was based both on "the issue of public confidence" and the risks to her safety at the address at which she proposed to live.
www.guardian.co.uk /soham/story/0,14010,1146529,00.html   (597 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Tearful Carr remanded in custody
Maxine Carr, 25, a former classroom assistant, is charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Ms Carr's boyfriend Ian Huntley, 28, a former college caretaker, has been charged with the 10-year-olds' murders and is being held at a high security hospital under the terms of mental health legislation.
Ms Carr could be seen dressed in a fl sweatshirt with a Daffy Duck motif on the front, flanked by a prison officer as she sat in Holloway Prison.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2223065.stm   (643 words)

  
 C4 News - UK - Crime - Carr speaks out   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Maxine Carr not been seen in public since before her arrest and she's not said anything about the Soham murders since she was released from prison.
The restrictions on reporting Maxine Carr's new life are the most stringent ever issued for an adult.
Maxine Carr had unprecedented Home Office support for her protection when she was released after serving 21 months in prison for perverting the course of justice.
www.channel4.com /news/2004/07/week_5/25_carr.html   (413 words)

  
 Bernard O'Mahoney - Future Books - Flowers in Gods Garden - Articles - 29/08/02 - Maxine Carr appears in court via ...
Maxine Carr, 25, is charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Carr, dressed in a fl top bearing a Daffy Duck motif, could be seen flanked by a prison officer as she sat in Holloway Prison, north London, where she is being held in custody pending her trial.
Carr is a former teaching assistant in Holly and Jessica's class at St Andrew's Primary School in Soham.
www.bernardomahoney.com /forthcb/pdt/articles/mcaicvvl.shtml   (306 words)

  
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In turn, Maxine Carr has admitted that Ian Huntley was lying, and admitted that Huntley told her the girls had an accident in his bathroom.
On 17 August 2002, Huntley and Carr were arrested “on suspicion”, and then twelve hours after they were arrested, the bodies of the two girls were found in a drainage ditch close to the USAF Lakenheath perimeter fence.
Maxine Carr, the unassuming teaching auxiliary, had fingered a critical piece of evidence that the police should have spotted.
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 Pedophiles in Very High Places - Judge Moses Takes Control of Lakenheath Trial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ian Huntley was the caretaker at Soham secondary school, and Maxine Carr was a former teaching auxiliary in Holly and Jessica’s primary school class.
Obviously Ian and Maxine were determined to protest their innocence, and refused to provide police with a convenient “confession”, no matter how tired they were, and no matter how much extreme pressure was applied by the big burly threatening policemen.
In other words Maxine Carr had to be so badly frightened that she would be positively eager to “cooperate” with police when the drugged, perhaps electro-shocked and certainly docile Ian Huntley was finally paraded in front of the courts.
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 County Council Briefing Re: Maxine Carr
Maxine Carr arrived in Soham with her partner Ian Huntley in November 2001.
Maxine applied for this post and was interviewed by Headteacher Geoff Fisher, Acting Deputy Head at the time Pamela Cole and Chair of Personnel Committee Susan Taylor.
Maxine's last day at the school was at the end of the July 2002 term.
www2.cambridgeshire.gov.uk /db/pressrel.nsf/6fcbd4565a583c6480256b52004254fd/cc2ddd8b7e41044a80256dff0046dabe?OpenDocument   (302 words)

  
 Criminal Law Failure of the law to protect Maxine Carr
Because of death threats, the High Court had ruled that details of Carr's identity needed to be kept secret for her own safety after her release on probation in May of this year.
Ms Knowles takes the view that Carr is receiving extreme and unusual treatment because she is a woman, and that this has wider implications for all women in Britain in relation to how they are or might be treated as convicted or suspected criminals.
Carr did indeed initially mislead a police investigation...but it cannot be said that this caused significant delay...and, according to a survey conducted by the Risk Advisory Group, two-thirds of the job applications they examined were "inaccurate" in some way.
www.lawinabox.net /lbnewswire08e.html   (646 words)

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