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Soham school caretaker Ian Huntley murders two girls in his home

Ian Huntley
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Two years previously Huntley had met Maxine Carr at a nightclub. Despite a history of sexual encounters with minors, he had secured a job at Soham Village College, and she was employed as a teaching assistant at the local primary school.

When the two 10 year old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, walked past Huntley’s home, he used his girlfriend’s connection to them, to lure them in.

Maxine Carr then provided him for an alibi on that night...