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One of history’s most evil child killers let me into his home

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Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman had been missing for over a week when I knocked on the door of Ian Huntley’s cottage to ask him to help.

I had no idea I was about to enter the crime scene of one of the most sickening child murders this century.

Yet within minutes I was perched on the sofa in the school caretaker’s living room with his fiancée Maxine Carr – later dubbed Britain’s most hated woman.

I could not have known then that I was sitting down with one of the most evil couples in modern history…

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