Police may quiz Huntley over 'confessions'

Police may interview Soham killer Ian Huntley in jail after he reportedly made a series of confessions in a taped interview, it emerged tonight.

Cambridgeshire Police are considering a number of options after the double child murderer apparently made the admissions during an interview in his cell.

They include a claim that his then girlfriend Maxine Carr orchestrated the cover-up of the deaths of Holly Well and Jessica Chapman.

And he is said to have admitted Jessica died in his living room and not the bathroom as previously claimed, according to reports in the Sun newspaper.

Officers are keen to learn what really happened to the 10-year-old friends and could now approach Huntley behind bars.

A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Police said: “We are looking carefully at the transcript we now have of the taped discussions that Huntley had with, as I understand it, a member of his family.

“We are examining a number of options and one of those includes interviewing Huntley.”

A spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed there had been initial contact with Cambridgeshire Police.

She said the CPS would review anything passed on to them from any potential Cambridgeshire investigation.

Lifer Huntley, 30, was convicted of the murders of Holly and Jessica, in Soham in August 2002, at the Old Bailey last December.

Ex-fiancee Carr, 27, was sentenced to three and a half years for conspiring with Huntley to pervert the course of justice.

Today, the Sun reported Huntley said Carr told him to burn the girls’ bodies to get rid of any evidence after they were dumped in a ditch near Lakenheath air base in Suffolk.

He also alleges she cleaned the house and told him to lie to police.

The revelations challenge the verdict of the jury at the trial which cleared Carr on two counts of assisting an offender.

The Sun reported Huntley said: “She told me to destroy all the evidence. I didn’t know what she meant at first. And then she explained exactly what she meant.

“Which is where the petrol can and everything came in.

“And that makes me feel 10 times worse, on top of everything else, because to do that was unforgivable.”

Carr’s lawyer, Roy James, told the newspaper she denied the allegations “in the strongest possible terms”.

A Prison Service spokeswoman would not comment on the allegations and said any suggestions about Carr were a matter for Cambridgeshire Police to investigate.

Yesterday, Huntley reportedly admitted he lied in court over the deaths of schoolgirls Jessica and Holly.

It prompted the Prison Service to announced a review of the way in which all calls to Huntley are recorded.

A spokesman for the Prison Service said the recording had been made during a conversation between Huntley and a relative.

“There was no evidence that he was interviewed by The Sun,” he said.