Chris Applegate points out a Maxine Carr “look-alike” in Northern Ireland, noting that she looks nothing like Maxine Carr.
This is definitely not the first time this has happened. The one I remembered was some poor woman from East Kilbride who looked even less like Maxine Carr. This Times article doesn’t have a photograph, but I remember seeing this in Reporting Scotland. It was just one of those moments where you lose all faith in the human race, right up there with “kill paedophils” [sic] / paediatricians lynch mobs.
Two instances of this would be bad enough, but while I was searching the internet to make sure that I didn’t just dream of that East Kilbride one, I found three others! Why is that then? Another one notch to mark under ‘tabloids + people = stupid”.
This article asks why people come down so hard on Maxine Carr (and non-Maxine Carrs as it happens) when she was “jailed for conspiring to pervert the course of justice with her ex-fiancé, Soham killer Ian Huntley – an offence far more minor than the killings themselves.”
Prolix
25 August 2006 08:47
#1
There have also been a a few ‘sightings’ of the Jamie Bulger killers recently, I recall one recently in Northern Ireland and there was a story that one of them, I forget which, had comitted another offence in Australia. Still exporting convicts there are we?
WisdomWeasel
29 August 2006 14:05
#2
No offence to the residents of Derry or East Kilbride, but they hardly fit the profile of a witness relocation spot. Sending her to either would be like being punished twice for the same crime.
I reckon she’s on the English rivera: Torquay perhaps, running a small caff that takes Luncheon Vouchers.
Graham Hesketh
11 September 2006 13:22
#3
Why is evertone so bothered about the whereabouts of Maxine Carr? She didnt kill the 2 little girls, But the sick monster that did is in jail.
What is to be gained from tracking her down?