Caretaker charged withUK schoolgirls’ murder

　　A SCHOOL caretaker was charged Tuesday with the murder of two 10-year-old girls whose disappearance from an English village has dominated the news for two weeks and shocked much of the country. Police said they had charged Ian Huntley, 28, with the murder of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells. Hours later they charged his girlfriend, Maxine Carr, with attempting to obstruct justice.Detective Chief Inspector Andy Hebb of the Cambridgeshire Police said Huntley had undergone a series of medical examinations since his arrest and that he had been transferred to a secure unit under mental health laws on recommendation of a psychiatrist. At Rampton high-security psychiatric hospital in Nottinghamshire, in central England, director Dr. Mike Harris said a 28-year-old patient had been admitted for assessment because of concerns about his fitness to be questioned by police.Carr, 25, was a teaching assistant at the girls’ school in Soham, in eastern England. She was arrested Saturday at the same time as Huntley on suspicion of murder. Huntley and Carr had appeared prominently on television after the children’s Aug. 4 disappearance. Huntley told reporters he had seen them that afternoon, and Carr spoke about her fondness for the girls and displayed a hand-drawn card she said one of them had given her. The children’s bodies were found Sunday near Lakenheath air base, 11 km from Soham, but post mortem examinations failed to reveal the cause of death. (SD-Agencies)