Maxine Carr will be let out of jail to start a new life this Friday. Carr, 27, will be released two days earlier than her official release date and will be taken to a secret location, sources told the Press Association news agency.The former fiancee of Soham killer Ian Huntley was due for automatic release on licence at the halfway point of her sentence next Sunday.
But under prison rules, anyone due for release over a weekend who is serving less than four years is set free on the preceding Friday.
Carr, currently at Foston Hall prison near Derby, will be smuggled out of jail. Her ultimate destination is unknown, but she wants to live as close as possible to her family in Lincolnshire.
She was sentenced to three-and-a-half years at the Old Bailey last December after she gave Huntley a false alibi.
He was given two life sentences for murdering 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman at the house he shared with Carr in Soham, Cambridgeshire.
Carr has appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on separate fraud charges.
She has been placed on a three-year supervision order after admitting 15 counts of benefit fraud and five counts of lying about her qualifications in job applications.
Carr worked as a classroom assistant at the school where the girls were pupils.
The benefit fraud charges included housing benefit, income support and jobseeker's allowance.
:: Carr should be allowed to rebuild her life and could be absorbed back into her home town "bit by bit" over the years to come, believes Canon Michael Hunter, rector of Grimsby.
He said she was "a further victim" of Ian Huntley and deserved a chance
But under prison rules, anyone due for release over a weekend who is serving less than four years is set free on the preceding Friday.
Carr, currently at Foston Hall prison near Derby, will be smuggled out of jail. Her ultimate destination is unknown, but she wants to live as close as possible to her family in Lincolnshire.
She was sentenced to three-and-a-half years at the Old Bailey last December after she gave Huntley a false alibi.
He was given two life sentences for murdering 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman at the house he shared with Carr in Soham, Cambridgeshire.
Carr has appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on separate fraud charges.
She has been placed on a three-year supervision order after admitting 15 counts of benefit fraud and five counts of lying about her qualifications in job applications.
Carr worked as a classroom assistant at the school where the girls were pupils.
The benefit fraud charges included housing benefit, income support and jobseeker's allowance.
:: Carr should be allowed to rebuild her life and could be absorbed back into her home town "bit by bit" over the years to come, believes Canon Michael Hunter, rector of Grimsby.
He said she was "a further victim" of Ian Huntley and deserved a chance
