The death of Soham killer Ian Huntley was the focus of Sunday’s newspapers, with the Sunday Mirror headlined the news as “the death of a monster”. The convicted murderer died 10 days after being attacked in prison, the Sunday Mirror reported, quoting a former guard as saying “nobody will shed a tear”. The former school caretaker was serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for the 2002 murders of best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
The Sunday People is making headlines by saying “there’s a special place in hell” for Ian Huntley, who “finally died” after an attack in prison, the newspaper reported. Above the image of the child killer is a US Air Force bomber based at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, which the newspaper said was capable of carrying 34 tonnes of explosives.
Similarly, the Sunday Telegraph leads former British prime minister Tony Blair in scolding Starmer for not supporting “Trump’s war”. Blair, who supports the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, said at a “private lunch” on Friday that Sir Keir should have done more to support the US “from the very beginning of the escalating conflict”, the newspaper reported.
A former Formula 1 engineer has called on UK defense chiefs to “leverage innovative skills in motor racing to arm the UK against a possible conflict with Russia”, the Sunday Express reports. Mark Mathieson, who once worked at Mercedes and McLaren, believes the answers to improving the “slow, ineffective” processes used by the Ministry of Defense can be found in sport.
