NEW LIFE IN CANADA

POLICE will urge Maxine Carr to emigrate to Canada once she has completed her sentence - but she doesn't want to go.

Carr, 26, will get a new identity, a home, and help in finding a job in an operation that will cost the British taxpayer pounds 750,000.

The move was agreed at a secret meeting of police officers and Home Office officials in London on Thursday night and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have already agreed to take responsibility.

A source said: "Carr has been informed of the plans and she wasn't very happy. But it has been impressed upon her that her continued safety in this country cannot be guaranteed."

The National Witness and Vulnerable Person's Protection Committee says Carr's presence in the UK poses a significant risk to her life.

She has received many death threats - which police are taking seriously - since being arrested over the Soham murders.

It is understood she will soon be transferred to Durham prison, then moved to a safe house when she is first released.

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