Maxine Carr
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Maxine Carr was Ian Huntley's girlfriend at the time he committed the August 4, 2002 Soham murders. She was a teaching assistant at St Andrew's Primary School, Soham, Cambridgeshire, which was attended by the two victims.
She provided a false alibi to police for Huntley and was convicted of perverting the course of justice. However, she was cleared on two counts of assisting an offender, reflecting the court's acceptance that she only lied to police to protect Huntley because she believed his claims of innocence. She had claimed to be with Huntley at the time of the murders, but was in fact in Grimsby.
On May 10 2004, Carr pleaded guilty to twenty counts of benefit fraud and of lying on job applications. She received a three-year community rehabilitation order for the offences, which had been uncovered as part of the murder inquiry.
The following day she was moved from Foston Hall Prison in Derbyshire to a secret location after documents relating to her release were stolen from a Home Office official's car. The papers were later discovered in Hampstead Heath. A 20-year-old man was arrested in connection with the theft of the papers.
Carr was released on probation on 14 May 2004 after becoming eligable for parole. Following her release she was put under police protection , as she had received death threats.