Enlarge imageLONDON (Reuters) - Maxine Carr, the former fiancee of Soham schoolgirls’ murderer Ian Huntley, will be prosecuted for alleged benefit fraud and lying in job applications, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says.
The former teaching assistant will be prosecuted on 12 counts of deception and obtaining pecuniary advantage between 1996 and 2002. She will appear at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on March 26.
"Two charges relate to lies made on her application for posts at St Andrew’s Church of England Primary School in Soham," a CPS spokesman said on Thursday, referring to the school which the girls attended.
The remaining charges cover various fraudulent benefit claims and three other cases of false job applications.
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Carr, 26, was jailed for 3-1/2 years for lying to police investigating the disappearance of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire.
Carr was sentenced last December but had been in jail on remand since August 2002 when the girls disappeared.
Carr had told police she was in the bath at home with Huntley when the girls disappeared. In fact, she had gone home to Grimsby.
The bodies of the 10-year-old friends were found in a ditch 13 days later.
Huntley was jailed for life for the killings.
Last month, the Prison Service turned down Carr’s bid to win early release from prison, arguing that letting her out early would have undermined public confidence in the government’s early release scheme.
The father of Holly Wells said on Thursday he would be waiting for his daughter’s killer, if he is ever released.
In a documentary called "Our Daughter Holly" due to be screened on ITV1 tonight, Kevin Wells said: "Fifty years now appears to be the minimum sentence that Ian Huntley is going to serve."
"That makes me 90 when he will be released -- if he makes it through that period of his life. When I said I would be around and meet him, I meant it."
His wife Nicola said about Huntley that she would like to "hang him very slowly".
In the documentary, the couple also speak about their need to get on with their lives and put anger behind them for the sake of their son.
"Obviously a major part of my life has been taken away, but we need to carry on and try to be as normal as possible for Oliver," Kevin Wells said.
