US EditionSoham murderer Ian Huntley dies after prison attack
Ian Huntley, serving life for murdering two girls, died after being attacked with a spiked metal bar by inmate Anthony Russell at HMP Frankland, police said.
- Ian Huntley died after being attacked in prison on February 26 at HMP Frankland in County Durham.
- He was assaulted with a metal bar in a workshop and was found in a pool of blood before being taken to hospital.
- Durham Constabulary confirmed that Huntley died in hospital following the attack.
- Huntley was convicted in 2002 for the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire.
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The Hamilton SpectatorIan Huntley, one of UK’s most notorious child killers, has died, days after being attacked in prison
LONDON (AP) — One of Britain’s most notorious child killers died Saturday, days after he was attacked by a fellow inmate in the workshop of a maximum-security prison. Ian Huntley, a 52-year-old former school caretaker convicted in 2003 for the murder of two 10-year-old girls, had been on life support after being hit repeatedly over the head with a metal bar at Frankland prison in northeast England on Feb. 26. The murders of Holly Wells and Jessi…
The two-time murderer of young schoolgirls, 52-year-old Englishman Ian Huntley, who was sentenced to life in prison, has died. He was admitted to hospital in serious condition at the end of February after being attacked with an iron bar by a fellow prisoner. After about a week, doctors disconnected him from the machines. Foreign media reported this on Saturday.
UK child killer Ian Huntley dies after prison attack
One of Britain’s most notorious child killers, Ian Huntley, has died following an attack in prison where he was serving a life sentence, police said. Huntley murdered 10-year-old girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in eastern England in 2002, in a case that horrified the country. Fifty-two-year-old Huntley suffered serious injuries when he was assaulted at Frankland maximum security prison in the north-eastern city of Durham on February 26. He…
One of Britain's most notorious child murderers is dead: Ian Huntley died of his serious injuries after a brutal attack in prison. The case brings back memories of Soham's crime that shook the country.
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