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New drama on Netflix about Maxine Carr and Ian Huntley. If you've seen it what do you think? It kind of portrays her as innocent or that she didn't know what he did, not sure how I feel about it yet.
 
I think that was the purpose off it, to lead you to question whether she was a victim of Huntley's or whether she was as evil as him, as she'd been portrayed in the media.

Hence why they focused on her and him, rather than the girls or the girls parents.
 
The channel 5 drama series definitely tried to portray her as a victim.

I don't know how they could get away with this. Surely they hadn't spoken to her, to get her side of the story. They were just making assumptions that she was innocent and was manipulated by Huntley, when it could be completely untrue.

If I remember rightly, it was an interview she gave with Sky which made people question her and Huntley. She spoke of the girls in the past tense.
 
She was living in a hostel on Marton Road just after her release... didnt last long before she was identified and quickly moved.
 
parmoboy said:
If I remember rightly, it was an interview she gave with Sky which made people question her and Huntley. She spoke of the girls in the past tense.
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This is actually covered in the drama. What never gets reported is the fact that a) the journalist who asked her the question already spoke of the girls in the past tense when he posed the question to her and b) Maxine Carr had just been the girls teaching assistant until the recent end of the school year, so it was natural that she would speak of them in the past tense eg I was their teacher, they were in my class etc.
It's also a fact that she was 250 miles away when the girls were abducted and killed, so obviously she had nothing to do with their murder. She did cover for Huntley though, so was at best incredibly naive at worst deliberately mislead the investigation knowing he was guilty. Jury decided on the former.
 
The Card Cheat said:
This is actually covered in the drama. What never gets reported is the fact that a) the journalist who asked her the question already spoke of the girls in the past tense when he posed the question to her and b) Maxine Carr had just been the girls teaching assistant until the recent end of the school year, so it was natural that she would speak of them in the past tense eg I was their teacher, they were in my class etc.
It's also a fact that she was 250 miles away when the girls were abducted and killed, so obviously she had nothing to do with their murder. She did cover for Huntley though, so was at best incredibly naive at worst deliberately mislead the investigation knowing he was guilty. Jury decided on the former.
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I just couldn't understand when she was constantly washing the house, for what reason?
 
The Card Cheat said:
This is actually covered in the drama. What never gets reported is the fact that a) the journalist who asked her the question already spoke of the girls in the past tense when he posed the question to her and b) Maxine Carr had just been the girls teaching assistant until the recent end of the school year, so it was natural that she would speak of them in the past tense eg I was their teacher, they were in my class etc.
It's also a fact that she was 250 miles away when the girls were abducted and killed, so obviously she had nothing to do with their murder. She did cover for Huntley though, so was at best incredibly naive at worst deliberately mislead the investigation knowing he was guilty. Jury decided on the former.
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That's fair enough regarding the explanation as to why she spoke of them in the past tense.

If I remember rightly, the drama implied that she was naive and genuinely believed that Huntley was innocent.
 
GibbosEmpire said:
I just couldn't understand when she was constantly washing the house, for what reason?
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I think what the drama is trying to convey, is that even though she may never have admitted to anyone else (including herself) what Huntley had done, deep in the very core of her being she knew what he'd done but didn't dare admit it.

So the obsessive cleaning is both a distraction, and a way of trying to scrub away what's happened both literally and metaphorically.
Maybe!🤷
 
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I think she was just a bit thick, insecure and stuck in a relationship with an utter creep, her first suspicion was that he had slept with someone else.

Think she was a bit of a fantasist as well, lying about her qualifications to get the TA job and going on about the goodbye card the girls had signed etc.

I did feel sorry for the headteacher, ultimately the system let him and those girls down, it would appear he did everything right..

This was the 3rd true crime after the Sutcliffe and Saville dramas I'd watched in a short timespan and the ineptitude of the police in each case is heartbreaking
 
As I understand she also lived in a house on Gill Street in Guisborough for a while and had a job in Morrisons in town - again until she was clocked and then moved on.
 
parmoboy said:
The channel 5 drama series definitely tried to portray her as a victim.

I don't know how they could get away with this. Surely they hadn't spoken to her, to get her side of the story. They were just making assumptions that she was innocent and was manipulated by Huntley, when it could be completely untrue.

If I remember rightly, it was an interview she gave with Sky which made people question her and Huntley. She spoke of the girls in the past tense.
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You are also making assumptions.
 
asredastheycome said:
You are also making assumptions.
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We don't know whether she did give Huntley an alibi knowing he was guilty or not.

I wasn't making assumptions that she knew, it's just that the drama series wanted to portray her as being a naive victim, which I feel was wrong when you consider that this may not have actually been the case.
 
GibbosEmpire said:
New drama on Netflix about Maxine Carr and Ian Huntley. If you've seen it what do you think? It kind of portrays her as innocent or that she didn't know what he did, not sure how I feel about it yet.
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This is new to Netflix but was shown on Channel 5 a year ago I believe and remember watching it at the time. Like the Saville documentary found myself drawn to it but uncomfortably so.
 
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