Soham liar Maxine Carr’s white wedding
Child-killer's ex lover in £2,000 wedding dress
SOHAM liar Maxine Carr has married her boyfriend in a lavish white wedding.
Carr, 43, jailed for giving ex-lover Ian Huntley a false alibi after he killed Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both ten, wore a £2,000 ivory dress.
Carr’s besotted boyfriend walked her down the aisle at a luxury wedding venue — watched by his horrified family.
Her new husband’s relatives attended the lavish white wedding although they are said to be stunned at his decision after learning of her shameful past.
Carr is said to have delighted in being the centre of attention.
She smiled and joked with guests and bridesmaids before making her way out into the venue’s picturesque grounds.
The Sun cannot name the venue because Carr is protected by a lifelong anonymity order for fear of reprisals over her role in the Soham tragedy.
Lying Carr told police her then fiancé Huntley had been with her on August 4, 2002 when Holly and Jessica were murdered in Soham, Cambs. In fact she had been in Grimsby — at a nightclub with another man.
Since her release from prison in 2004 it has cost the taxpayer around £2.5million to provide Carr with a new identity and police protection.
After taking their vows, Carr and her husband posed for photos. They and their guests drank £10 bottles of sparkling wine with a three-course wedding breakfast. The wedding is said to have cost them thousands.
He knows about her past but is said to be “absolutely besotted” with her.
A source said: “The families of Holly and Jessica will never get to see their daughters marry.
“They will never get to enjoy their big day.
“They have nothing to look forward. Why should she?”
Former classroom assistant Carr served just 21 months of her sentence for perverting the course of justice.
Carr, who has not been married before, spent the morning of her wedding having her hair and make-up done.
She was given away by her 71-year-old mother — jailed herself for six months in 2004 after intimidating a witness who gave evidence against her daughter.
The bride and groom exchanged vows in front of a registrar then signed the marriage certificate.
The couple then rejoined family and friends outside on a hotel patio for drinks and wedding photographs.
Carr is one of only four former UK prisoners protected by a lifelong anonymity order — along with child killer Mary Bell and James Bulger's murderers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables.
She was living with Huntley in the quiet village when schoolgirls Holly and Jessica vanished.
Huntley worked as a caretaker at local secondary school Soham Village College — and Carr was a teaching assistant. In the two weeks following the disappearance Carr vouched for Huntley repeatedly. It meant police initially eliminated him as a suspect. She also cleaned their house of evidence.
They were finally arrested when witnesses revealed she was 110 miles away in her home town when the girls were killed.
Huntley claimed Holly died accidentally after falling into the bath at the house he and Carr shared.
He said he then unwittingly smothered Jessica when he tried to silence her screams. He dumped their bodies in a ditch.
Huntley, 40, found guilty of murder, is serving a double life sentence. Since Carr’s release it has been reported that she has had a baby. But it is now believed she has no children.
She is also said to have miscarried twice since 2006 after becoming pregnant by different lovers.
From murder to marriage
AUG 4, 2002: Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman vanish after going to buy sweets in Soham, Cambs.
AUG 17: Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr arrested. Girls’ bodies found hours later.
AUG 20: Huntley charged with murder, Carr with perverting the course of justice and assisting an offender.
NOV 2003: Carr jailed for 42 months at Old Bailey for giving Huntley a false alibi.
DEC 17: Old Bailey jury find Huntley guilty of murder. He is jailed for life.
MAY 2004: Carr released after serving half of her sentence, mostly on remand, and given new identity.
FEB 2005: High Court grants Carr lifelong anonymity, preventing new identity ever being revealed.
MAY 2014: Carr weds long-term boyfriend.