Former
neighbour describes Huntley paedophile slurs and former girlfriend
reveals his violent behaviour
In
an exclusive interview with the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ a former neighbour of Ian Huntley
has told how many people in Humberside suspected him of a being
a paedophile.
Morisa
Gibb also told Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE's Real Story that she saw Huntley - today
found guilty of the murders of Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and
Jessica Chapman - beat Maxine Carr and revealed that he had an unpredictable
temper.
Speaking
on Soham: The Real Story, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
ONE, today (17 December 2003) at 9.00pm, Morisa said that allegations
that Huntley had been accused of having sex with under age girls
formed common gossip.
She
said: "A lot of the people, like his work mates, would say
'Wierdo, queer, nonce', that sort of thing, and it used to really
upset him.
"I'd
say 'Why do they think you're that?'. He said, 'Morisa, I don't
know, it's because I sit by myself, I just keep to myself.'"
Morisa
continued: "Even my boyfriend used to call him a nonce. He
said, 'Morisa, he looks the type because he's just weird around
kids.'"
Morisa
lived next door to Huntley and Carr for 18 months from February
2000 when they lived in Scunthorpe.
She
also witnessed evidence of Huntley's violent controlling behaviour
towards Maxine Carr:
"I
am sorry to say this but I did put my ear to the wall and I could
hear him slapping her and could hear her shout, 'Stop kicking me,
stop kicking me!'.
"I
thought 'Oh no, this again!'. I went round, knocked on the door,
looked through the bedroom window and he said, 'What do you want?'
and I said, 'Leave her alone. If it carries on, I'm going to call
the police.'
"And
he told me just to go away, and then next day he come round and
apologised."
Morisa
said: "He'd punch and kick her. There was one time when I was
in the flat and they were arguing and . . . you could see him lifting
his arm up and hitting her as she cowered into where the toilet
was and he was hitting and hitting her and you could see it through
the glass.
"Each
day Ian was different, it depended if he'd had a bad day at work.
If he had, then God help me or Maxine basically.
"Sometimes
he thought people were getting at him at work, they were looking
at him, he thought they were going to hit him and he even told me
that they asked him to go out and play pool with them and he said
no, 'Because I know they're going to get me if I go out'.
"It
was like he had a split personality, you know Mr Nice Guy and then
Mr Nasty, and I know it sounds odd but when he did get nasty he
looked really evil, as if it wasn't the Ian I knew."
Speaking
exclusively to Real Story, Ian Huntley's former school friend,
Carl McLaughlin, revealed Huntley's history of emotional and
behavioural problems from his childhood.
"Quite
a lot of people used to pick on him because he had a big forehead
and I remember times when mates used to go up to him, slap him on
his forehead and he'd just go mad. So I think he was a bit self
conscious about it.
"When
Ian got angry it was like he was changing from one person to the
other. For example like the Incredible Hulk. One minute he was human,
next thing he was a green monster. He did have a good temper on
him he did," said Carl McLaughlin.
Also
speaking exclusively to Real Story, Huntley's former girlfriend,
Becky Bartlett, revealed how Huntley punched her in the stomach
when she told him she thought she was pregnant:
"I
met him in a night club called Baker Street and I had a drink and
that with him and then he asked me if I wanted to go back to his
house so I did.
"It
was about a couple of months after being with him, I thought I was
pregnant and I told him and he just like punched me in the stomach,
so I like fell on the bed and I just said, 'What did you do that
for?' and he just said, 'I don't want no kids'."
Becky
Bartlett was 19 when she met and lived with Ian Huntley. She found
the pregnancy scare was a false alarm and their relationship ended.
She
added: "I thought it's best to just get out of the relationship,
so I did. I just got out as quick as I could.
"But
I was scared at first, I wanted to leave him a bit before that but
I was a bit scared too so I stayed with him and then at the end
I ended up getting out of the relationship."
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Notes
to Editors
Soham:
The Real Story is on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE, today (17 December 2003)
at 9.00pm.
Crimewatch
UK
As
a result of changes to Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE's schedule to take into account tonight's
Real Story, Crimewatch UK will now be shown on Thursday 18 December
at 9.00pm on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE.
The
programme will be recorded on Wednesday 17 December.
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normal free phone telephone number will be available throughout
the show for viewers to call, as well as the relevant incident room
numbers.
Updated
information on the cases featured during this programme will be
shown in the next edition of Crimewatch UK on 27 January 2004.
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