I saw evil Ian Huntley with the bodies in boot of car

EXCLUSIVE: Maxine's neighbour reveals death threats, sex lies and a new secret horror
 

By Chris Bucktin

EVIL Ian Huntley was spotted with Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in his car boot TWO DAYS after murdering them, it was claimed last night.

A neighbour of Maxine Carr's mum is POSITIVE the girls were in the back— when she saw "ashen-faced" Huntley slam the lid shut.

Soham trial witness Marion Clift, 36, has revealed for the first time the full horror of what she believes she saw in the murders that shook Britain.

She is certain that Huntley drove a round trip of 200 miles with his dead victims to pick up Carr (right) from her mother's terraced house in Grimsby, Lincs.

Marion exclusively told the News of the World: "The longer I think about it the more certain I become that Huntley brought Holly and Jessica with him."

The neighbour believes school caretaker Huntley, 30, even drove Carr's mum Shirley Capp to her work with the girls in the boot.

Vanished

Marion also told how living next to Capp, 61, led to an ordeal of death threats and false accusations of an affair—all designed to get Maxine, 27, off the hook.

The mum-of-three said she vividly remembers Tuesday, August 6, 2002—48 hours after the 10-year-old schoolgirls vanished from Soham, Cambs.

Marion was heading out to the shops when she was stopped in her tracks.

She revealed: "As I opened my door Huntley and Maxine had the boot of their car wide open and they were looking, as though they were in a trance, at its contents.

"Maxine was hysterical. Tears were streaming down her face while Huntley looked on ashen-faced.

"At first they didn't notice me. I was looking at them for a short while. It was only when I began opening my front gate and it creaked that they saw me.

"The sound made Huntley snap to his senses. He glared at me and slammed the boot shut. Maxine spun on her heels, took one look at me and ran inside.

"Huntley didn't know where to put himself. He clearly had something to hide.

"At the time I thought little of it. You wouldn't, as the country was clueless as to what had happened.

"I walked on past him and made my way the short distance to the paper shop. When I walked back the car and Huntley had disappeared."

Prosecutors at Huntley's trial last December alleged he dumped the girls at Lakenheath, Suffolk, on the day he killed them at his school-owned house.

But forensic experts were unable to pinpoint the exact time they were left in undergrowth.

Lover

Marion said: "We will never know when he finally did take them to their grave.

"But after seeing what I saw I have serious doubts if it was on the Sunday."

Even fish factory worker Capp —who lives with lover Glyn Farrell—was panicking that Holly and Jessica might have been in the car, Marion added.

The witness said she heard a blazing row the other side of the wall in which Capp "screamed at him about the girls being in the boot". Marion went on:

"At one point she became hysterical. She was crying her heart out when she screamed at Glyn, ‘I just hope the bodies weren't in the car when he drove me to work.' She was praying.

Knowing now what I do about Huntley I believe he wouldn't have thought twice about driving the girls from Soham to Grimsby.

It was clear he was in a blind panic—someone with fear in their eyes. He was desperate and didn't know which way to turn.

I even kick myself for not oiling my front gate. If it hadn't squeaked, they wouldn't have seen me coming.

He wouldn't have been able to slam the boot so quick.

What I could have seen would have eased some suffering for the Wells and the Chapmans.

Instead they had to endure for another two weeks not knowing if their daughters were alive or dead."

Another argument in the Capp house showed Glyn's trauma over Huntley's arrival to take Carr back to their house in Soham. Marion said: "I was woken at about 2am to the sound of Glyn screaming at Shirley.

"All I could hear was him shouting, ‘If you don't tell the police I will. You have to tell them what you know, for Max's sake. You gotta tell the police, Shirley. Tell them the truth. It's the only way'."

Marion ended up fitting panic alarms and CCTV at her house— after Capp threatened to kill her for telling cops about Carr's visit.

The fish-packer yelled: "Watch your ****ing back—you're dead."

Tears

Capp now faces jail after being convicted of attempting to pervert justice with the death threat. And she cannot return to her home under bail conditions.

Marion told the Old Bailey she saw Carr crying beside the Fiesta as part of evidence that saw Huntley get two life sentences. Fighting back tears, Marion also recounted the day Soham murder cops accused her hubby Darren of having an affair with Carr.

She accuses Huntley's ex-lover —in hiding after being freed from a 3-year sentence for perverting justice—of making the unfounded allegation.

Marion said: "It was just pure evil—and heartbreaking to think I questioned Darren's loyalty to me after 22 years together."

Darren, 39, was accused of withholding information. Marion added: "But he could prove he was with me, not Maxine."