Carr completes giving evidence to trial

Maxine Carr left the witness box at the Old Bailey this afternoon after giving evidence for seven hours over two days.

Carr’s counsel Michael Hubbard QC closed the case for his client. Mr Hubbard told the court: “That is the case for Maxine Carr.”

Maxine Carr broke down in tears at her ex-lover’s Old Bailey murder trial today and said: “I’m not going to be blamed for what that thing in the box has done to me or those children.”

She pointed to her former fiancé Ian Huntley where he stood in the dock, accused of the double child murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

Carr, under cross-examination in the witness box, had frequently referred to her ex-lover as “Mr Huntley” or “your client” and said she was scared of him and that he controlled her.

In a moment of extraordinary drama, Carr raised her right hand and pointed directly across the court at Huntley, sobbing as she called him "that thing".

She had earlier insisted he had left her with no choice but to lie, and that she was “pushed into a corner”.

Carr denies conspiring to pervert the course of justice and two counts of assisting an offender.

Huntley, 29, a former caretaker at Soham Village College, denies the double child murder on Sunday August 4 last year but has admitted a single charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.