Editing Ian Huntley

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{{Villain Infobox
|image = Ian_Huntley.jpg
|fullname = Ian Kevin Huntley
|alias = Ian Nixon
|origin = Grimsby, Lincolnshire, U.K.
|occupation = Barman<br>Heinz factory worker<br>School caretaker
|hobby = Plane spotting<br>Sexually assaulting underage girls
|goals = Kill Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman <small>(succeeded)</small> and get away with it <small>(failed)</small>
|crimes = [[Murder]]<br>[[Pedophilia]]<br>[[Rape]]<br>Sexual assault<br>[[Domestic abuse]]<br>Burglary
|type of villain = Homicidal Misopedist}}
'''Ian Kevin Huntley''' (born 31 January 1974) is a British double murderer responsible for the 2002 murders of two 10-year-old schoolgirls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, in Soham, Cambridgeshire. He and his girlfriend [[Maxine Carr]], who had provided Huntley with a false alibi, were both convicted the following year after a highly-publicised trial. Huntley was sentenced to life imprisonment and is still serving his sentence. 
==Biography==
Huntley was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in January 1974. He was largely a loner and was regularly bullied, although he did enter into several relationships with girls, all of whom were at least a year younger than him. He completed school in 1990 with five GCSE passes and chose to find a job rather than enrol in college. He worked a succession of menial jobs, but never remained in a single job for long. He married Claire Evans in 1995, but the marriage barely lasted a week before she divorced him because of his violence towards her. On one occasion Huntley beat Evans so badly that she suffered a miscarriage. He later began dating Maxine Carr, and was living with her in Soham by the time of the murders.

===Criminal history===
Huntley was charged with burglary in March 1996 after allegedly breaking into a neighbour's house and stealing cash and jewellery. The case went to court, but a judge ordered that the charges be left on file and Huntley was released. 

From 1995 - 1998, Huntley was involved in numerous sexual assaults. Between August 1995 and May 1996 he had sex with numerous underage girls, some as young as 13 years old. One victim even became pregnant. Huntley was reported to police on three occasions, but each time the girls denied they had had sex with Huntley and refused to cooperate, so no further action was taken on any occasion. From April - July 1998 he was arrested multiple times on suspicion of raping young women but he was not charged with any of these crimes due to lack of evidence. He was also charged with raping a woman in July 1999 but the alleged victim told police that Huntley was not her attacker and the charges were dropped.

===Soham murders===
On 4 August 2002, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left the Wells home to buy sweets. Neither of them returned and were reported missing at 9:55 PM. They were last seen alive on CCTV walking past the local sports centre. During the search for the girls, Huntley, who worked as a caretaker at the local school, came forward as the purported last person to see the girls alive. According to Huntley, he had been washing his dog when the two girls walked past his house and stopped asking about Carr, who also worked at the school as a teaching assistant. Carr, Huntley claimed, had been upstairs taking a bath. Huntley had told them that she couldn't see them as she was taking a bath, and they walked on. Carr corroborated his story. 

During the search for the girls, Huntley made sure to seek out media attention and insert himself into the search. However, both the police and journalists became suspicious of Huntley due to his increasingly weird behaviour; he aroused the suspicions of BBC journalist Debbie Tubby by asking the oddly specific question "Have they found the girl's clothes?”. Other journalists photographed him anxiously biting his nails in his Ford Fiesta.  While helping the police search the school, Huntley denied having the keys to a shed on site known as the Hangar. Later that day, police searched his house and noticed that he appeared agitated. When asked to provide a DNA sample, routine procedure for someone who had been in contact with a missing person, Huntley asked how long DNA samples lasted for and became reluctant when informed they could last for thousands of years. He also asked police how the abductor could access messages left on Jessica Chapman’s phone. During a televised interview of Huntley and Carr, several people who recognised Carr called the police to tell them she had been in Grimsby on 4 August, meaning she couldn’t have been telling the truth when she said she was at home with Huntley when he allegedly saw the girls. Others reported Huntley’s history of rape accusations, unknown to the school when they hired him. 

By this point Huntley was the prime suspect in the disappearances, but no conclusive evidence had been found. Then, on 17 August, there were two major breakthroughs. First, police discovered that Huntley had been lying when he denied he had a key to the Hangar, as one was found in his house. When it was used to unlock the Hangar, the burnt remains of the girl’s clothes were found inside, in a bin liner with Huntley’s fingerprints on it. A few hours later the burnt bodies of two young girls were found in an irrigation ditch 10 miles away. DNA analysis confirmed they were Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. The cause of death could not be conclusively determined, but was believed to be strangulation or suffocation. A forensic search of Huntley’s Ford Fiesta found traces of a distinctive mixture of brick dust, chalk and concrete of exactly the same kind used to pave the road next to where the girl’s bodies were found. Forensic ecologist Patricia Wiltshire also identified pollen on Huntley’s tyres as coming from the scene.

Huntley and Carr were arrested. Upon being arrested, Carr admitted she had been in Grimsby when the girls disappeared, claiming she believed Huntley was innocent and had wanted to protect him from being wrongly suspected. Both were officially charged, Huntley with murder and Carr with perverting the course of justice and assisting an offender. Huntley was briefly detained at Rampton Secure Hospital under the Mental Health Act due to his incessant gibbering and crying; however, psychiatrists concluded that, although psychopathic, Huntley was not mentally ill and was faking insanity. Upon being informed that he would be charged, Huntley attempted suicide by overdosing on antidepressants but failed to kill himself. 

Huntley and Carr’s trial at the Old Bailey began on 5 November 2003. Huntley’s defence was that both deaths had been accidental; Holly had suffered a nosebleed and the two had gone inside to get help from Huntley. Holly had then accidentally fallen into the bath, in which Huntley had been about to wash his dog, and drowned. Jessica had begun screaming and Huntley had attempted to cover her mouth, unintentionally smothering her. Panicking, Huntley had burned their bodies and dumped them 10 miles away. Home Office pathologist Nat Carey, testifying for the prosecution, explained that the lack of a secondary transfer of blood proved that Holly had almost certainly not suffered a nosebleed. Huntley’s story was further discredited when he admitted under cross-examination that the bath had only been eleven inches deep, making it extremely unlikely that Holly could have drowned in it unless he had held her head under. He also admitted that he had initially claimed Jessica had been the one to suffer the nosebleed and drown in the bath but had changed his story after hearing that Holly had suffered from regular nosebleeds. 

Ultimately, the jury returned a majority verdict on 17 December 2003. Huntley was convicted of two counts of murder; Carr was convicted of perverting the course of justice but acquitted of assisting an offender as there was no evidence she had been aware that Huntley was the killer. Huntley was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 40 years, meaning he will not be eligible for parole until 2043. 
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