Police issue update on Ian Huntley after prison attack | UK | News
Police have shared an update on the case of Soham killer Ian Huntley, who was brutally attacked in a prison workshop. Durham Constabulary issued the update on Sunday afternoon after the child killer was beaten with a metal pole in a prison workshop at HMP Frankland in County Durham.
Huntley, 52, was taken to hospital following the attack. Durham Constabulary said Sunday afternoon that there had been no change in the child killer’s condition in hospital overnight. The killer is seriously ill and sources claim Huntley was given a 5 per cent chance of survival following the attack. Mirror reports.
A spokesman said: “The 52-year-old man remains in hospital in a serious condition with no changes overnight.”
Triple killer Anthony Russell is alleged to have shouted “I did it, I did it” after Huntley, 52, was repeatedly struck in the head at HMP Frankland in Durham last Thursday morning, according to reports. Police declined to identify the suspect but said on the day of the alleged attack, a man in his mid-40s was detained in prison but had not yet been arrested.
Former carer Huntley murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman as they left their family barbecue to buy sweets in Soham, Cambridgeshire, on 4 August 2002. He threw their bodies into a ditch.
