Ian Huntley

THE SOHAM MURDERER let slip gruesome details about his 10-year-old victims' last moments before he brutally killed them in a bizarre attempt to throw the ...

Then on August 20, the couple was arrested. I think the way he described how Holly and Jessica would react is exactly how they did react. I was [standing] on the front doorstep grooming my dog down… In a TV interview, Carr made an error: she referred to Holly in the past tense, saying “she was just really lovely”. Dust off the dance shoes because Strictly Come Dancing season is nearly upon us. In a BBC interview, Mr Farmer told how he had asked the couple about what the girls would have done when encountering a stranger when Huntley “jumped in” to answer.

Twenty years ago a community was ripped apart when Soham murderer Ian Huntley brutally killed schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

The creation of the database was described by the parents of Holly and Jessica as a "defining moment" to mark the passing of their daughters. Huntley's alibi was also discredited. "The fact the girls were laying in a shallow grave, and he knew that, and every time he saw that poster he knew what had happened. "The plants helped because Huntley had put the girls' clothing into a bin and tried to burn them back at the school, and lo and behold it was covered in little bits of vegetation from where the girls had been laid," she said. After arresting Huntley and Carr, Mr Farmer was asked to give an account to police of his interview with the pair. The hunt for their killer and clues that helped identify Huntley as the killer revolutionised policing with the introduction of a national police database.

Bodies of 10-year-old schoolgirls found in shallow grave two weeks after they disappeared from family barbecue on 4 August 2002.

She returned to the job in the years following her daughter’s murder. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy policy and Terms of service apply. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy policy and Terms of service apply. Huntley’s then-girlfriend Maxine Carr was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in 2003 after she was found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by giving him a false alibi. He was convicted the following year in 2003 and handed a double life sentence with a minimum of 40 years in jail.

Carr was jailed for perverting the course of justice over the murders of schoolgirls Holly and Jessica at the hands of partner Ian Huntley.

Two decades on, what became of Carr is still unknown, though The Mirror reports that she is now thought to be married with children. Huntley, now 48, was eventually found guilty of the murders and jailed for a minimum of 40 years, while Carr served 21 months out of a three-and-a-half year sentence. In photos not published until this year, Carr can be seen smiling and giggling during a TV interview just days after Holly and Jessica went missing, before anyone but the couple knew that there was no hope of finding the girls alive. Carr was 22 when she met 25-year-old Ian Huntley at a nightclub in Grimsby in 1999, and she soon moved into his flat. Carr was described as a “volatile child” at school, who was bullied and went on to become “very ill” after suffering from anorexia. Carr was one of several girls and young women who are said to have fallen under Huntley’s spell, The Mirror reports .