Today marks twenty years since schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman vanished on their way to buy sweets. The girls had left a family BBQ in the sleepy town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, and their bodies were discovered almost two weeks later in woodland.
Holly and Jessica, both aged 10, were murdered by evil school caretaker Ian Huntley who received a false alibi from his partner Maxine Carr, now 45.
Carr, who worked as a teaching assistant at the little girls' school, was jailed for 42 months and released from Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire in May 2004 after serving half her sentence.
But the strength of public hatred meant she had to be given a new identity by the courts and given round-the-clock protection, the Mirror reports.
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