With regard to the quote above, I do not think there is a shred of evidence against either Ian Huntley or Maxine Carr. I think they were both royally stitched-up. The bodies were found outside an American airbase where US servicemen and women were on transit via active service in Afghanistan. Some of these personnel will have been suffering from PTSD and some may have been suffering from the effects of some of the medications needed. Given the location of the bodies, the criminals involved are far more likely to have been from a US airbase.
It is on record that the girls walked past Ian Huntley's house while he was outside brushing his dog - an Alsation. It is quite likely - given the ages and dispositions of the girls - that the girls would have wanted to stroke Ian Huntley's dog and this also may have facilitated striking up a conversation about Huntley's then girlfriend Maxine Carr.
Was the dog tested for DNA from the girls? I know there was some talk of a cracked bath - I wonder if Huntley panicked after realizing he was the last person to see the girls and it was then that the Alsation was washed thus cracking the bath, allegedly.
I do not for a minute believe he or his girlfriend were guilty but you could see why they might panic. The account of the conversation he had with the girls sounds entirely plausible and many eye-witnesses saw the girls AFTER they had walked away from his house. No DNA from the girls was found in his house.
A police handler with a dog who spoke to Ian Huntley when he helpfully showed her around the campus does not record the dog reacting to Huntley at all. This is despite the fact that according to the investigation Huntley had killed the girls by then.
Why would Huntley put the girls' football tops in a bin on his campus? That would just be a ridiculous thing to do. No DNA was found on the tops.
Why was the taxi-driver who saw a car driving crazily with two girls inside after the girls had left Huntley's house not called to the witness stand? There are many other witnesses who saw the girls in Soham and heading in the Newmarket direction after Huntley had allegedly murdered them.
I honestly don't think the conviction has a leg to stand on. The forensics don't match. Huntley was incarcerated at Rampton where he apparently lost his memory. What drugs was he given at Rampton?
Why were none of the servicemen and women at the US airbases interviewed? The taxi-driver saw the erratically driven car with two girls inside - with the driver turning around flapping at presumably Jessica's mobile - heading in the Newmarket direction at around 7pm. A jogger several hours later heard child-like screams coming from the area at Warren Hill where the very same jogger, a week later, found two mounds of earth that looked like shallow graves. Police spent all night at the site and then declared they were 'badger sets'. Why spend all night there on a false lead? What were they doing all night?
Days later the bodies were supposedly found for the first time outside the perimeter fence at Lakenheath?
It seems far more likely that the bodies were, in fact, found at Warren Hill and later moved to Lakenheath near where Huntley had family members living and I think is said he would go there plane-spotting.
I think there is every evidence that the trail lead away from Huntley's house and ended at Warren Hill.
If I was the family of either Huntley or Carr I would be firmly on this case as I think it's the most appalling miscarriage of justice. I think they were framed to avoid a scandal involving US servicemen at one of the airbases.
IMO only of course!
