Huntley 'was having affair with colleague'
A colleague of Ian Huntley at Soham Village College told police she had been having an affair with the man accused of murdering schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, his Old Bailey trial heard today.
The revelation was made today when a transcript of a telephone conversation between the former caretaker’s then-girlfriend, Maxine Carr, and Huntley’s mother Lynda was read out.
The transcript was one of two telephone calls between Carr and Mrs Nixon taped as part of a police operation and presented today in the closing stages of the prosecution case.
Carr had telephoned Mrs Nixon from Holloway jail and said police had told her Huntley had been
having an affair with a woman at the school.
The following is a section of the transcript.
Mrs Nixon: “Have you heard anything, Maxine?”
Carr: “I…”
Mrs Nixon: (inaudible)
Carr: “No, the last time I phoned my solicitor was the other day. Oh shut up. Somebody the other day came … and was talking to me and he was going on about - it was Ben – he was going on about questioning, do you know like, oh Ian was having an affair or something with some woman at the college or something and …
Nixon: “Having an affair?”
Carr: “Yeah that’s what this, that’s what I was told by my barrister last week that this information come to light, you know, this woman had given a statement saying she’s had, she’s been having an affair with Ian, and so I wrote to Ian and I put in it you know, I just sort of said, well I just asked him.”
Nixon: “He doesn’t leave you on a night does he?”
Carr: “No, and…”
Nixon: “He don’t go out on his own.”
Carr: “No and so I mean and since then I’ve been writing letters to him and then writing letters and he’s been writing back and been saying why aren’t you writing to me and I can’t understand why he’s not getting my letters.”
(Just prior to this extract Mrs Nixon tells Carr that her son had not received any mail from his girlfriend, but Carr is baffled because she has sent a letter every day and is receiving mail from him.)
Carr: “But they’re going from this end so…”
Mrs Nixon: “Yeah.”
Carr: “It must be that they’re stopping cos I’m getting his letters.”
Nixon: “OK, lovey. Maxine, have you told them about the times that he’s, he left the house, the two times that he left the house?”
Carr: “They didn’t ask me anything about that, it never came into it, the only time they know is that when he went to my, went to his Nana’s.”
Nixon: “Yeah.”
