[98], The same evening, police conducted a thorough search of both 5 College Close and the grounds of Soham Village College where Huntley worked as a senior caretaker[100] as the couple remained under police watch at separate locations outside Soham. [226] She was given a secret identity to protect her from threats of attack from vengeful members of the public[227] in addition to being provided with a new home in an undisclosed location. Carr was sentenced to serve three-and-a-half years in prison for perverting the course of justice. [172] One of these girls would become pregnant at age 15,[166] and gave birth to a baby girl in 1998. [78] This service was attended by about 2,000 people, including the girls' classmates, teachers and the six family liaison officers who had provided 24-hour service for both families. Shortly thereafter, she briefly worked as a junior care assistant at a care home for the elderly in Grimsby, then returned to work alongside her mother as a labourer at Bluecrest fish processing plant. [46] Police also received statements regarding a suspicious white van that had been seen in Soham on the evening of the children's disappearance. [89] In one interview with Sky News correspondent Jeremy Thompson during the second week of the search, he claimed to be holding on to a "glimmer of hope"[61] the children would be found safe and well, and that he had last seen the girls walking in the direction of a local library. On this date, a forensic scientist, Helen Davey, testified about the biological evidence recovered from the girls' clothing, footwear and a dishcloth discovered in the hangar at Soham Village College on 16 August. I hope the next time I see him, it will be like we saw our daughtersand it will be in a coffin. Capp and her older sister, Hayley (born 1967), were largely raised by their mother and grandparents. [243], 2002 double homicide in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England, Chapman (left) and Wells (right), summer 2002, 20 August 2002 booking photograph of Carr. The CRB is run and maintained by the government. Immediately on seeing the corpses, Lawrence turned to his girlfriend, Helen Sawyer, and shouted: "Don't come any closer, Helen! The thing is though Huntley had never been convicted of any offence before the Soham murders. Today's service is a small milestone in our shared journey of grief and sorrow it is our hope that we may perhaps draw a line under one phase of our grieving and begin to look forward. He worked as a senior caretaker there until his arrest. [82], In his opening statement on behalf of the Crown, prosecutor Richard Latham QC described the last day of the friends' lives and how, by "pure chance", they had happened to pass by Huntley's home at a time when Carr was not present. [97] By this date, police had received information from several Grimsby residents who had recognised Huntley in the television interviews he had given, and recalled that he had been accused of rape several years earlier. It is run in England, Scotland and Ireland. His girlfriend, Maxine Ann Carrthe girls' teaching assistanthad knowingly provided Huntley with a false alibi. She preferred to do what she could to make the best of the position she was in. The case reached court, but the prosecution offered no evidence, resulting in a judge ordering the offence to lie on file. [1] He also stated that the girls had almost certainly not died at the location where their bodies had been discovered,[73] and that both bodies had been placed there within 24 hours of their deaths. Christopher Clark, consultant forensic psychiatrist, reciting the conclusions of his assessment of Ian Huntley's mental state (2002)[121], Having been declared mentally fit to stand trial, Huntley was faced with a sentence of life imprisonment if a jury could be convinced of his guilt. [70][71] No clear footprints were discovered at the crime scene. [168] The marriage was short-lived due to Huntley's volatile temper, which surfaced within days of their marriage. [142] When questioned about why she had then helped Huntley in extensively cleaning their home in the days after the children's murder, Carr claimed she had done so as she had always been "obsessive about tidiness. (CRB) check which was initially introduced in 2002 in order to check the background of people working with children or vulnerable . But, whatever he initiated, plainly went wrong. Investigators located and seized this vehicle from a caravan park in Wentworth on 7 August; this lead also proved fruitless. On 14 September 2005, while an inmate at HM Prison Wakefield, he was scalded with boiling water by convicted spree killer Mark Hobson. After two months of courtship,[163] Huntley proposed to Evans. Clark concluded in October that, although psychopathic,[120] Huntley did not suffer from any major mental or psychotic illness. Huntley was later transferred to London's Belmarsh prison. It can't have been! At this hearing, Carr was informed by Principal Crown Prosecutor Marion Bastin this charge carried a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. [235], Immediately after Huntley's conviction, previous criminal allegations against him were made public. [3] She received a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for conspiring with Huntley to pervert the course of justice. Huntley supplied a DNA sample to assist in their enquiries, with Carr also providing an alibi to support his claims of innocence. [61] In this live interview, Carr corroborated Huntley's claims to have conversed with the children on their doorstep as she had been bathing before both girls had walked away from their doorstep, adding: "I only wish we had asked them where they were going if only we knew then what we know now. [183] Huntley severely restricted and supervised any contact she held with her family or social acquaintances. [181][n 13], Following his arrest, several former girlfriends and sexual partners stated that Huntley presented himself as a charming and considerate man in the early stages of a relationship, but would become domineering and violent upon having established control. The checks were introduced after Ian Huntley secured a job as a school caretaker - despite having been investigated by police over allegations of rape and underage sex. [14] His employers helped him to get the tenancy of 5 College Close,[208] and he and Carr moved to Soham in late September. It s is especially important when a job requires the applicant to be in a position of trust around children or vulnerable adults. [156] In setting this minimum term of imprisonment, Mr Justice Moses stated: "The order I make offers little or no hope of the defendant's eventual release. [14], At the urging of his father, Huntley joined the Air Training Corps at age 13. (This was the only instance when a victim of Huntley had not identified or named him as being her assailant. [216], Huntley was transferred from Wakefield prison to Frankland prison on 23 January 2008. [108] This left police with no option but to refer Huntley to a mental hospital to undergo an extensive psychological evaluation. [206], In September 2001, Huntley responded to a job advertisement for a job as a senior caretaker at Soham Village College. [170], In March 1996, Huntley was charged with burglary. [21] Over 400 officers were assigned full-time to search for the girls. [8] Another woman living in nearby Little Thetford claimed to have seen two girls whose appearance and clothing matched those of Wells and Chapman walking past her home the morning after they had been reported missing. [192] This employment was initially voluntary work, but Carr later became a teaching assistant in the school's Year 5 class. [169] Shortly after their separation, Huntley's wife formed a relationship with and later married Huntley's younger brother, Wayne. Launched in March 2002, six months late, the criminal records bureau (CRB) checks the criminal background of all people who work with children or vulnerable adults in schools, voluntary. He would also emotionally blackmail his partner if he detected any signs of her developing resistance to his control or indicating a desire to leave him. I'm going to be inside forever, and it'll be torture. To one colleague, Capp would talk incessantly about her dreams of leaving this employment and embarking on a teaching career. This cassette tape contains a very different account of the murders of Wells and Chapman than that to which Huntley had testified at his trial. [188] She performed poorly academically, but always aspired to become a teacher. [57], On 6 August, Huntley drove from Soham to Grimsby to pick up Carr. It was highly publicised child murder and abuse cases such as the murder of two pupils, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by a school caretaker that led to the establishment and development of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB), covering England and Wales. [184], According to one columnist, the fact that Huntley had remained unpunished for these often blatant and continuous acts had increased his confidence and reinforced his domineering, misogynistic mindset and fuelling his recidivism. Each room of Huntley's home had evidently been recently and meticulously cleaned[101] with what was later described as being a "lemony" cleaning fluid,[102] but the search of the home revealed many items of "major importance" to the investigation. He was employed before the establishment of the CRB. On this occasion, Carr had been drinking with a former boyfriend named Paul Selby when Huntleya casual acquaintance of Selbyapproached the two and initiated a conversation. "[111] Despite these revelations, Carr initially remained emotionally attached to Huntley and professed her belief in his innocence to both the police and her family. [14] Pathological evidence retrieved from the bodies indicating at least one of the girls had been subjected to a sexual assault either before or after her murder was not disclosed to the jury at Huntley's trial. His fingerprints were recovered from the bin. This had included fibre evidence retrieved from Huntley's vehicle, clothes and carpets which had been a "precise match" to the Manchester United shirts the girls had been wearing at the time of their disappearance. In this instance, a woman was raped and Huntleyby this stage suspected by police as being a serial sex offenderwas interviewed. The CRB ( Criminal Records Bureau) was a ground-breaking service which provided detailed reports of a person's criminal record history. [92], On 3 December, Carr went into the witness box to testify in her own defence. Here, his mental state was assessed by Christopher Clark, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, to determine whether he suffered from any form of mental illness and whether he was mentally competent to stand trial. However, the main check is with the Criminal Records Bureau, and since Maxine Carr did not fail a CRB check, there is an element of 20:20 hindsight in linking the 2004 convictions to the 2002 murders. [69] In an apparent effort to destroy forensic evidence, the murderer or murderers had attempted to burn both bodies. The inspiration for dedicating a flower to the children's memory came from a poem read aloud at the memorial service at Ely Cathedral on 30 August 2002 by the father of Wells, titled Soham's Rose. There's two little Beckhams over there. The evidence and artefacts were not made public at the time, but the items recovered from the school grounds included items of clothing the girls had been wearing when last seen; their charred and cut Manchester United shirts were recovered from a bin in a hangar at Huntley's place of work. [69], Carr was also interviewed by the press during the second week of the search for the children. [10] At 5:04p.m., a photograph of the two friends was taken by Wells' mother before the children ate dinner with the other house guests. [30] Police also investigated the possibility that the girls had arranged to meet someone they had contacted via an internet chat room, but this was soon ruled out. The girls' bodies were discovered on 17 August 2002. Shortly before the two returned to College Close,[58] a neighbour of Carr's mother named Marion Clift saw the couple standing at the rear of the vehicle, with the boot open. [136], On 1 December, Huntley testified before the court in his defence. [10] Coroner David Morris testified the bodies of both girls were partially skeletonized, and that no precise cause of death could be determined for either of them. The stated purpose of the Bichard inquiry was: Urgently to enquire into child protection procedures in Humberside Police and Cambridgeshire Constabulary in the light of the recent trial and conviction of Ian Huntley for the murder of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells. The Vetting and Barring Scheme is a national scheme for checking the suitability of those who work with children and vulnerable adults. [68] Ian Huntley, 29, jailed for life last week for the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, was a caretaker at Soham Village College. [88], By the second week of the children's disappearance, Huntley had become an unofficial spokesman for the community of Soham. The injuries Huntley received in this attack resulted in his being unable to attend the hearing at which his minimum term of imprisonment was decided. On one occasion, he beat his wife so badly she suffered a miscarriage. [191], An orange-petalled rose, dedicated to the memory of Wells and Chapman, was unveiled by representatives of Soham Town Council at the 2003 Chelsea Flower Show. The Vetting and Barring Scheme aims to protect children and vulnerable adults by stopping those who pose a known risk from working with them. Your tears have never been for them; only for yourself. [192][195][n 14], While Capp resided with her mother in Grimsby, she unofficially adopted the surname Benson. Former "Teen Mom 2" stars Chelsea and Cole DeBoer have a new show on HGTV, "Down Home Fab." Insider spoke to the pair about how to make homes pretty but functional for families. [81], The inquest into the children's deaths was held at Shire Hall, Cambridge, on 23 August 2002. The findings also suggested a national system should be implemented for police forces to share intelligence information, and that all police forces should follow a clear code of practice on record-keeping. "[82] In reference to Carr's attempts to pervert the course of justice, Latham stated that "as surely as night follows day" the two had conspired to concoct a false alibi to divert suspicion from Huntley,[82] but warned the jury Carr could only be convicted of assisting an offender if they believed she had known Huntley had murdered the girls, adding that her motive for providing lies to police with reference to the charge of perverting the course of justice was irrelevant. On 9 June 2003, he attempted suicide by taking 29 antidepressants which he had accumulated in his cell. An overnight examination revealed the two mounds of earth to be badger setts. Investigators were able to obtain extensive footage of the children's movements following their departure from the Wells household. 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