UK News 03-09-2002 Maxine Carr May Get Bail who: Murder suspect Ian Huntley`s girlfriend Maxine Carr what: Likely to be released on bail, says her lawyer when: Yesterday snippet: "Maxine Carr, who is charged with lying to police who were investigating the murders of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells in Soham, Cambridgeshire, could soon be freed on bail," reports The Scotsman. "Her legal team are looking for a suitable place to put her without risk of reprisal after the anger generated by the murder of the two 10-year-old schoolgirls," says Adam Fresco in The Times. "People have misunderstood the position," her solicitor Roy James told the Law Society`s Gazette, quoted by Sky News. "She has not been charged with the girls` murder and if the media background to the case is ignored she would be granted bail as a matter of course." The 25 year-old former teaching assistant, "who supervised the girls` class at St Andrew`s primary school in Soham, is accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice," explains The Telegraph, "which carries a maximum sentence of life." Her boyfriend, 28 year-old Ian Huntley, who was caretaker of Soham Village College, has been charged with murder and is being assessed at Rampton high-security hospital. [... more]

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