Maxine Carr will be let out of jail to start a new life this Friday, it emerged today.

Carr, 27, will get out two days earlier than her official release date and will be taken to a secret location, sources said.

The former fiancee of Ian Huntley, the Soham murderer, was due for automatic release on licence at the halfway point of her sentence next Sunday.

But under prison rules, anyone due for release over a weekend who is serving less than four years is set free on the preceding Friday. Prison chiefs have no legal authority to hold those prisoners until the Monday.

Carr was sentenced to three-and-a-half years at the Old Bailey last December after she gave Huntley a false alibi.

Today at Nottingham Crown Court, Carr pleaded guilty to 20 deception charges not related to the three-year jail sentence.

The former teaching assistant admitted 15 counts of benefit fraud and five counts of lying about her qualifications in job applications.

However, Carr will not return to prison. She has, instead, been placed under a three year supervision order.

Judge Richard Pollard told Carr that she could have been sent to prison, but he said he felt it was in the public interest to place her under the supervision of the Probation Service until May 2007.

Judge Pollard was told that Carr had repeatedly lied to "obtain pecuniary advantage" between 1996 and 2002.

The judge told Carr: "I could send you to prison for a further period. These were serious offences - offences which you admitted in interview and to which you have pleaded guilty.

"Although much has been said on your behalf today about the conduct of this case, there has been no application to stay it for any abuse of process.