Huntley had breakdown over rape charge in 1998, court told

IAN Huntley was charged with rape four years before he was accused of the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, his Old Bailey trial heard yesterday.

untley was accused of the rape in 1998 but was “acquitted” when the case came to court, his ex-girlfriend Maxine Carr told police after they were both arrested on suspicion of the murder of the Soham schoolgirls.

She told police she had lied to protect Huntley, saying she was in Soham with him on the day the girls went missing, when in fact she was in Grimsby.