Soham beast Ian Huntley is blind, brain-damaged and will likely die soon after having his head smashed apart in jail attack, report says
Child killer Ian Huntley is likely to die and go blind if he lives after being beaten with a metal pole in a prison attack, sources claim.
The 52-year-old prisoner was on life support with serious skull injuries after a fellow inmate left him ‘mutilated like a mouse’, a woman who visited the prison previously told the Daily Mail.
Huntley is serving a minimum of 40 years at HMP Frankland, County Durham, for the murders of ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002.
Triple murderer and rapist Anthony Russell, 43, is suspected of carrying out a brutal beating in the prison workshop at 9.30am on Thursday last week.
Huntley is not expected to regain consciousness after doctors announced that he was blind due to the blow to his eyes and serious brain trauma.
A source told Sun: ‘Now it looks like he won’t be able to handle this unless a miracle happens.
‘Huntley never recovered from the blow and never had the chance to do so. Despite all the efforts of the doctors, his condition has not improved much since the first day.
‘Looks like it’s just a matter of time. It could be days, it could be weeks. This is probably for the best. ‘Very few people will shed any tears.’
Ian Huntley (pictured August 2002), who murdered 10-year-old girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, is “extremely unlikely” to survive after being beaten three times over the head with a metal pole by a fellow inmate.
Triple murderer and rapist Anthony Russell, 43, is thought to have carried out this brutal attack. Prisoners reportedly cheered as the attacker reportedly shouted “I did it, I did it.” ‘I killed him, I killed him’
Doctors are considering turning off Huntley’s ventilator after he does not respond to treatment. The source said doctors were “working wonders” to even keep him in this state.
Prisoners were said to have cheered as the attacker shouted “I did it, I did it”. ‘I killed him, I killed him.’
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A source previously told the Daily Mail that a fight broke out between Huntley and a fellow inmate in his wing, after which he “took a metal bar from a waste metal crate and hit Huntley in the head three times.”
They added: ‘This striking of the skull was a very, very serious injury.’
He was left in a pool of his own blood and prison officers believed he died then and there because he was “not breathing”, but paramedics were able to put him into a medically induced coma and transport him to hospital.
After an unconvincing brainstem test, doctors say it doesn’t look good for Huntely’s survival.
The Sun’s source said his head was ‘split in two’ and added: ‘If he survives by some miracle he will most likely be blind and there will be not much left of him.’
His mother Lynda Richards, 71, traveled 275 kilometers from her home in Lincolnshire to his bedside and said he looked ‘unrecognisable’.
He admitted that ‘part of me hopes he dies’ as he was attacked multiple times while serving his sentence. Sun in question.
Paramedics gave former school custodian Huntley a five per cent chance of survival.
This is the latest in a series of serious attacks suffered by Huntley at the hands of his fellow inmates.
In 2010, his throat was slit by robber Damien Fowkes, but he survived and required 21 stitches.
Best friends Holly Wells (left) and Jessica Chapman (right) were killed by Huntley. Last year he was seen swaggering around the prison wearing a Manchester United jersey, clearly intended to taunt his victims.
HMP Frankland on Thursday after Ian Huntley was attacked inside by another prisoner
A leaked prison recording revealed that in 2018, another inmate tried to kill him in his cell with a makeshift knife made from a razor attached to his toothbrush.
He was also doused with boiling water by another inmate in 2005.
He tried to kill himself in Wakefield Prison in 2006 and required hospital treatment.
Police have yet to make an arrest following the attack but said they had a suspect and confirmed Huntley remained in hospital in a ‘serious’ condition.
Huntley was accused of murdering Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002 after the two close friends disappeared from a family barbecue in Cambridge on August 4.
He lured them to his home, where he killed them before dumping their bodies in a ditch 12 miles away. He would later return and try to burn them.
A desperate search gripped the country after a photo taken on the day of the girls wearing identical Manchester United football jerseys began to circulate.
More than a week has passed since their disappearance, but their bodies have not been found.
Huntley was seen strutting around the prison last year wearing a Manchester United jersey as a vile taunt towards his victims. He was kept in a wing reserved for those at risk of being attacked.
Anthony Russell was accused of murdering David Williams (pictured left) and his mother Julie Williams (pictured right).
The girls had gone out to buy candy together when they were caught by Huntley. Suspicions were raised about him as a suspect when it was revealed that he had told a journalist in morbid detail how girls might react to being kidnapped by a stranger.
After pleading not guilty, he was convicted in 2003 and sentenced to at least 40 years in prison.
His then-fiancée Maxine Carr, a teacher’s assistant at a girls’ school, was also to be jailed for three-and-a-half years for providing a false alibi to help her partner escape justice.
Suspected Huntley attacker Russell was found guilty of the murders of Julie Williams and her son David Williams, as well as the rape and murder of pregnant Nicole McGregor near Leamington Spa in 2022.
At the time, West Midlands Police believed Mr Williams was strangled with the cord due to Russell’s “mistaken belief that he was having an affair with his girlfriend”.
He then killed Mr Williams’s 58-year-old mother in an attack that injured 113 other people.
He then pretended to help Ms McGregor’s partner look for her before attacking Ms McGregor, who was five months pregnant, just hours after showing her a picture of her baby scan.
