Behind the tall fences of the ugly industrial building he helped with fish processing and pizza making.Friends described him as a fantasist, claiming falsely that he had been thrown out of the RAF on health grounds that his father had died when he was a child, or that he was training as a professional body-builder.It was to be a turbulent time in his life. In the autumn of 1993, his mother ran off with female security guard Julie Beasley. It was not for another nine years that Lynda Huntley would return to his father.A year later in December Huntley started a relationship with 18-year-old Claire Evans. They wed the following month in a low key ceremony at Grimsby register office.The only witnesses were Huntley’s mother and brother. There were no speeches, no cake for the bride to cut, and the happy couple toasted their nuptials with beer at a local pub. The few casually dressed guests helped themselves to a buffet of sandwiches, sausage rolls and meat pies laid out on the pub pool table.A relative of the bride said: “None of Claire’s family even knew they were getting married .. only his family were at the wedding Ian was a real charmer and had the gift of the gab.

Claire was young and impressionable and only 18.”They moved into a flat above a TV repair shop. But the marriage lasted only a few weeks before she left him for his younger brother Wayne. Five years later Claire married Wayne, an RAF engineer, in a lavish ceremony at Thetford United Reform Church. Huntley did not attend.Huntley then drifted through jobs and addresses in run down parts of the Humberside town.During this time he went through vulnerable under-age girlfriends – many of whom would later describe his as dominant and violent – as swiftly as he did jobs.At the age of 22 he moved in with a 15-year-old girl. While selling charity scratchcards door to door, he had met her mother who was a fellow worker.

Apparently with her parents’ blessing, he moved into the caravan at the back of their house and she left school to start work in a factory.”They lived in a caravan in the back garden. It was always full of kids, they thought he was marvelous,” neighbour Sue Fern said “He was like the bloody Pied Piper. We never thought anything of it at the time, but now its quite spooky.”It was during this time, in September 1997, a neighbour’s then 11-year-old child insists Huntley indecently assaulted her. “[The girl] never disclosed what had happened to her for a year. She said later that it was because he told her he would kill her if she told anybody,” her aunt explained.”She was a lovely child, the only girl among five boys. She was bonnie and loving and full of life, very much like those two little girls. But in that year, she changed from a loving, affectionate child into a monster.