Huntley was charged with rape, jury told
Soham accused Ian Huntley was charged with rape in 1998, his Old Bailey murder trial heard today.
The jury heard details of a police statement made by his ex-girlfriend Maxine Carr on August 17 last year after the couple were both arrested on suspicion of the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
In the statement, Carr said: “The reason why I told the police I was at home was because my partner Ian, he was accused in 1998 of attacking a girl, of raping a girl.”
She said the case went to court and that he was “acquitted” but that he subsequently suffered “a nervous breakdown”.
Huntley, 29, denies the double murder of the schoolgirls but has admitted one charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Carr, 26, denies the conspiracy charge and two counts of assisting an offender.
