Carr already 'threatened with death'

Maxine Carr has been threatened with death, the High Court heard today.

The news came as the media launched a legal challenge to a draconian injunction that has cast a shroud of secrecy over Carr’s future.

The injunction was served yesterday on News Group Newspapers, Associated Newspapers, Guardian Newspapers, the Telegraph Group Ltd and MGN Ltd.

A challenge against the order, which was granted in private by Mr Justice Eady, was brought today by News Group Newspapers and MGN.

The Telegraph Group was also represented in court but was not taking part in the legal challenge.

On the day that the 27-year-old became a free woman, the interim court order “against the world” banned any details being published of her whereabouts, appearance or movements “until further notice”.

It could mean that her identity and movements are protected by the courts for the rest of her life.

Carr has spent half of a 42 month sentence behind bars after being convicted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

She provided a false alibi for her then boyfriend, Ian Huntley, by lying to police about her whereabouts on the weekend in August 2002 when he murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire.

Today, in an open court hearing, Edward Fitzgerald QC, for Carr, applied to the same judge for the injunction to be continued in view of the “immediate and imminent threat” to Carr’s life and to ensure that her rehabilitation continued.

The media say that the granting of the injunction breached the Human Rights Act but did not oppose its continuation pending service of the evidence upon which it was based and proper consideration of the matter at a full hearing.