What happened to Maxine Carr? Channel 5 to air Soham Murder Trial documentary

Two years on from it airing a drama about Maxine Carr, Channel 5 will turn back the clock to 2002 again on Thursday night with documentary The Soham Murder Trial.

It's now been nearly 22 years since the sleepy Cambridgeshire village of Soham was thrust into the media spotlight, after the disappearance of school girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. A huge scale search operation was launched to find the best friends, who failed to return home after going out together.

TV appeals were made from locals as the girls' families prayed for their safe return to home. But it was one of the people who gave an interview to news reporters, school caretaker Ian Huntley, who was responsible for the girls' death, with him being caught after the remains of Manchester United tops Holly and Jessica were wearing, were found in a bin at Soham College, where he worked.

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Classroom assistant Carr, who worked at Holly and Jessica's school, was Huntley's girlfriend at the time and gave him a false alibi for the night of the girls' disappearance, as well as infamously referring to the children in the past tense during an interview on BBC Look East, as people searched around the clock for the youngsters.

Both Huntley and Carr. were convicted and sent to prison, with Huntley serving a sentence of a minimum of 40 years and Carr sentenced to three and a half years behind bars for conspiring with Huntley to pervert the course of justice.

What happened to Maxine Carr?

Carr served 21 months in prison and was given the protection of a new identity upon her release, after authorities granted her an anonymity order. Carr, who will now be 47-years-old, is one of only a handful of prisoners to be afforded this protection and the injunction is so strict that even details or her hairstyle or job are forbidden from being published.

A teaser for June 27's documentary reads: "Using transcripts from the trial, testimony of those who were in the court room, and reconstruction of key moments, this documentary reveals the prosecution's strategy to prove that Huntley and Carr were guilty."

There was controversy two years ago thanks to the Channel 5 drama about Carr, Simply called Maxine, it dramatised the relationship between her and Huntley, how she covered for him and how she was eventually brought to justice.