On tonights local news , Cambridgeshire Police have released excerpts of some bizarre 999 calls , including from a woman saying " I want to speak to the Prime Minister , just to send him my good wishes and to tell him he's a lovely chap "    ( ...  err ... yeah ... right ... )
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I've just watched the Channel 4 programme 'Being Maxine Carr' : As most of you know she was the cohabiting girlfriend of Soham Murderer (of two young girls) Ian Huntley , who was tried with him and served 17 months imprisonment for perverting the cause of justice because when he came under suspicion she initially lied to the police , saying she was with him on the evening of the girls disappearance , when she was I think staying with her Mother , and was snogging another man in a night-club .
So she says because  Huntley is  manipulative , cunning and controlling , and  convinced her that he had nothing to do with the girls disappearances , and feared that the police were trying to 'fit him up' .
After serving her sentence , when  it became evident that Maxine Carr was in danger of being attacked  a court injunction to protect her anonymity was issued , and unsuccessfully challenged by national tabloid newspapers nine months after her release .
The programme featured three women , none of whom resemble the photo's of M / Carr ,  who in different areas of the UK have had gangs of men hanging round their homes threatening them , throwing bricks through their windows and doors , and one of them was physically attacked  , because of false rumours that they were M / Carr . All three of them had to leave their homes , and one of them was driven to take an overdose .
A tabloid newspaper journalist said on the programme that M / Carr deserves that " because of what she did " .
As , I suppose , does anyone who anyone says might be her ...
The Soham case was upsetting . We all so hoped that Holly and Jessica would somehow turn up alive and well . I remember the newsflash that their bodies had been found during Channel 4 Racing from Newmarket , which is not so far from Soham .
But Maxine Carr was Not There when the murders took place , and there is  no evidence that she did anything other than stupidly lying presumably because Huntley convinced her that he had nothing to do with it .
And I HATE , Oh How I HATE the expression , quoted in the programme , "there's no smoke without fire"    ,     that means ANYONE can accuse ANYONE of ANYTHING , = it must be true .
Here in the UK we pride ourselves on being a so much more civilised people than are for example the people of Sudan , where british schoolteacher Mrs . Gibbons was accused of insulting Islam re . the teddy bear , etc ...
But there's a nasty , vengeful , stupid element in probably every society that yearns for a scapegoat to feel justified in hating , threatening , attacking , because they enjoy that .
The only difference is that here that's not officially encouraged of tolerated - Except , tacitly , by some popular newspapers , whose editors know that they can sell more copies by demonising not only people convicted of hideous crimes  but also anyone associated with them who they decide to serve up to their readers as hate objects .