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Channel 5\u2019s director of programmes Ben Frow has defended the decision to air a drama about the life of Maxine Carr.<\/p>\n
It was announced in June<\/a> that newcomer Jemma Carlton and Line of Duty<\/a> actor Scott Reid would play Carr and Ian Huntley respectively in a three-part series.<\/p>\n The drama will explore Carr\u2019s relationship with Huntley, who was later sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment for the double murder of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Carr also received a shorter sentence for knowingly providing Huntley with a false alibi for the murders in Soham, Cambridgeshire.<\/p>\n Speaking at this year\u2019s Edinburgh International TV Festival, Frow said that Channel 5 debated whether or not to commission the drama.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt we should,\u201d he said. \u201cI was very interested in telling the story of, who is Maxine Carr? How did she grow up? What was her upbringing? What life circumstances made her the person she was, so that at that crucial moment, she sided with Ian Huntley over the police in the investigation?\u201d<\/p>