Caretaker charged with girls’ murder

SCHOOL caretaker Ian Huntley was last night in a secure hospital charged with murdering 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

His girlfriend Maxine Carr, 25, a former teaching assistant in the Cambridgeshire girls' class, was also last night charged with a single count of perverting the course of justice and remanded in custody until her appearance at Peterborough Magistrates Court today, Cambridgeshire Police said last night.

Huntley, 28, was detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act yesterday morning after undergoing a