Carr reporting rules tightened

Lawyers for Maxine Carr, the former girlfriend of the Soham killer, Ian Huntley, said last night they had succeeded in tightening the injunction banning publication of her new identity and whereabouts.

They went to a judge after an article in yesterday's Daily Mail discussed the type of accommodation Carr was said to be living in and her employment. Mr Justice Mitting extended the injunction protecting Carr from public scrutiny to cover any description of the accommodation or nature of the premises in which she resides, and the nature of her employment. The Home Office said it supported the application.

Mr Justice Mitting said nothing in the order should prevent people publishing, but not soliciting, a description of or comment upon the comfort and amenity of Carr's accommodation and/or its likely cost which did not in any way identify its whereabouts.

The injunction banning details of Carr's new identity was described as one of the most stringent ever seen when it was introduced at the time of her release earlier this year. It imposed a blanket ban on the publication of any information relating to her whereabouts, appearance and movements in light of "clear evidence" of threats to her life.

Details of her new name, address or of any care or treatment she may be receiving were all prohibited. The injunction also barred the publication of any film, photograph or drawing of Carr made or taken after her release and prevented the media from identifying any premises she visited in her new life.

It also stopped journalists from soliciting people for such information.

Carr served half of her 42-month sentence for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. She provided a false alibi for Huntley by lying to police about her whereabouts on the weekend in August 2002 when he murdered the 10-year-olds, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, in Soham, Cambridgeshire.