History behind the relationship

13 April 2012

The love affair between Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr began in the most ordinary circumstances when they met in a Grimsby nightclub in 1999.

It ended in the most extraordinary circumstances four years later after Carr dramatically pointed across the floor of the most famous court in the land and referred to her co-defendant as "that thing".

Below are the stories which reveal the fatal attraction between the two, how Carr cheated on Huntley with a teenager and how the two were benefit cheats for years.

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