Ian Huntley’s ex-girlfriend Maxine Carr enjoys Christmas at ‘taxpayers’ expense’

Ian Huntley’s ex-girlfriend Maxine Carr has reportedly been enjoying a taxpayer-funded Christmas.

Carr has been protected by the state since being released from prison for providing Huntley with a false alibi over the 2002 murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

Since being freed and given lifelong anonymity in 2004, Carr has reportedly demanded that taxpayers buy her a Santa outfit and help pay for her Christmas party.

She allegedly said she needed the cash to make her festive season ‘happy and stress-free’ and deserves it from the state because it has a ‘duty of care’.

The bill reportedly ran to at least £500 to cover food, drink, a microwave, Christmas decorations and gifts for her ‘family, friends and boyfriends’.

This comes on top of the round-the-clock police protection – which has reportedly cost millions – she has received since being released.

The public has also funded £8,000 worth of dental work and a range of plastic surgery – including a boob job – to change her appearance.

In 2008 it was reported that the former teaching assistant was given a £1,000 Christmas ‘bonus’.

Carr was jailed for lying to police on August 4, 2002, when asked about Huntley’s whereabouts when the two missing schoolgirls disappeared.

She claimed she had been at home and in the bath when the 10-year-olds had stopped outside their property, provided by the school where Huntley worked, to speak with him.

In reality, she had been miles away from Soham, Cambridgeshire, in her hometown of Grimsby.

Their bodies were later found in a ditch close to the RAF base about 10 miles away.

Both Carr and Huntley spoke to the press and joined locals, along with 400 police officers, in the desperate search for the girls.

It was later revealed that Huntley had gone back to where he dumped the bodies to cut off the girls’ distinctive Manchester United shirts and tried to burn them in a bid to destroy any DNA evidence.

He then discarded the shirts in a bin at the school where he worked, covering them with another bag of rubbish.

Huntley was later charged with two counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 40 years behind bars.

Carr was jailed for three-and-a-half years for perverting the course of justice.

She was given a new identity upon her release from Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire in May 2004.

After being freed, Carr was moved to more than 10 different safe houses. In 2011, it was reported that she had given birth to her first child – a son – in a secret safe house.

In 2012, she was believed to have started a serious relationship with a man who was aware of her horrifying past.

As of 2014, she was said to have been living in a seaside town.

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