Maxine Carr Is Dead

By Blog on the Box on Dec 13, 07 09:26 AM in

Maxine Carr Is Dead. Now there's a headline many people would like to see.
Short, to the point, and it's got good news to impart. As a journalist I would love to write it, as a human being I would love to read it.

A documentary on Channel Four reveals how hatred for Ian Huntley's dysfunctional girlfriend is so embedded in the British way of life that dozens of women have been attacked in the mistaken belief they are Carr under a new identity.

As I explained in the Sunday Sun last week - she's a single mum in Redcar, a student in York, a shop assistant in Northern Ireland, She's Maxine Carr and she's living near you,

The programme, Being Maxine Carr, tells how innocent women moving to a new area have been vilified because they might be the Soham witch with a new name and new face.

Rightly, the programme condemns the shoot now, ask questions later response of the mob. Can't argue with that. Like the morons who attacked a children's doctor because they didn't know the difference bertween a peadiatrician and a peadophile, the vigilantes have no place in decent society.

Neither does Carr - and that''s why the documentary misses the public mood by a mile.
Included are several references to poor Maxine, the victim, the woman who did what she was told by Huntley.

Victim? Don't make me laugh. That woman is no more a victim than the suicide bombers in Algiers. The evil cow, now protected by the courts, provided Huntley with an alibi. She may not have killed Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman herself but she played her part in the tragedy, Not a victim, then, but a villain.

You can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear - and you can't play the sympathy card for one of the biggest hate figures in the country since Myra Hindley.

Yeah, yeah, I know she was punished by the legal system but it wasn't enough. Natural justice dictates that she will spend the rest of her life in hiding, fearing the mob will eventually get it right, and there is a knock on her door, a brick through her window, a mob congregating in her garden.

Nor can I follow the advice of one contributor to forgive and forget, Holly and Jessica's parents won't - and neither should we. You don't forgive and forget the murder of children.

Don't Rest In Peace, Maxine, you don't deserve it.