Carr also cleaned their house of evidence. The pair were finally arrested when witnesses revealed that Carr was miles away in her home town when the girls were killed.
Although her new identity and location cannot be named for legal reasons, sightings of the notorious Soham liar have already provoked comment on social networking sites. Everyone is talking about it. It also has a high turnover of visitors and casual workers which should make it harder to identify ex-convicts but this has not prevented residents from recognising her infamous face. Carr's testimony began three days later, when it was claimed that she had no control over the events on the day of the murder, and that, had she known of Huntley's murderous intent, she would never have lied to protect him.
Following her testimony, the prosecution presented their closing statements, claiming that both Carr and Huntley were convincing liars, and also that Huntley's motive for murdering the girls was sexual, although physical evidence of assault was impossible to prove. After five days of deliberation, the jury rejected Huntley's claims that the girls had died accidentally and, on December 17, , returned a majority verdict of guilty on both charges.
Huntley was sentenced to life imprisonment, but there was a delay on the setting of his sentence, as the Criminal Justice Act came into force one day after his conviction. At a hearing on September 29, , a judge ruled that the Soham killings did not meet the criteria for a "whole-life" sentence, which was now reserved for sexual, sadistic or abduction cases only under the new act, and imposed a year prison sentence, which offers Huntley very little hope for release.
On September 14, , Huntley had been attacked by another inmate at Belmarsh Prison and scalded with boiling water, which prevented him from attending this sentencing hearing. Carr was cleared of assisting an offender but found guilty of perverting the course of justice and jailed for three and a half years, but she was freed under police protection in May , as she had already spent 16 months on remand, pending the trial. Carr was given a new identity on her release and, on February 24, , was granted an indefinite order protecting her new identity by the High Court, on the basis that her life would be in danger were her new identity to be revealed.
A number of investigations, launched by then Home Secretary David Blunkett, looked into the failures of both the police, and other social and vetting agencies, in stopping Huntley sooner, and system-wide communication and intelligence-sharing errors were identified, which led to the suspension and early retirement of the chief of Humberside Police.
Since being jailed, Huntley has reportedly admitted to his father that he lied when giving evidence at his trial, alleging that he killed Chapman to prevent her from calling for help on her mobile phone, rather than suffocating her accidentally, as he claimed in court.
On July 23, , Carr's mother, Shirley Capp, was sentenced to six months in jail for intimidating a witness during the trial. Capp's neighbor, Marion Westerman, had told police that she had seen a crying Carr and Huntley looking in the boot of a car outside Carr's mother's house, shortly after year-old Wells and Chapman had gone missing. Carr's mother's threats to Westerman had nearly resulted in her retracting her statement at the time, and not testifying in court.
On September 5, , Huntley was rushed to the hospital after being found unconscious in his prison cell. He was taken to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield to receive treatment for a suspected drug overdose and was returned to prison the next day. The Prison Service works to minimize the risk of any prisoner taking their own life, but it cannot eliminate that risk entirely.
Huntley had been considered a suicide risk after he took 29 anti-depressant pills, which he had hidden away in a box of teabags, in June Four years later, Huntley confessed to the sexual assault of an year-old girl. A year after, in , he was relocated to Frankland Prison. During his incarceration, Huntley's been reportedly attacked by fellow inmates, including an incident of having his throat slashed by Damien Fowkes in We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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Former classroom assistant Carr served just 21 months of her sentence for perverting the course of justice. On her release from jail in Carr was given a new secret identity amid concerns she would be attacked. Despite knowing about her disturbing past, Carr's besotted new boyfriend walked her down the aisle at a luxury wedding venue in Carr, then aged 22, met a year-old Huntley at nightclub in Grimsby in In November , Huntley started his job as caretaker at Soham Village College and moved into a cottage which came with the job.
Carr, who was living with Huntley in the quiet village, was also working as a teaching assistant at the school when schoolgirls Holly and Jessica vanished.
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