Giles
March 21st, 2010, 06:00 PM
Ian Huntley, the Soham murderer, has been admitted to hospital after being attacked by another prisoner.
Huntley, who is serving two life sentences for the killings of the schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, was moved from HMP Frankland Prison to hospital yesterday afternoon.
Reports suggested that his throat had been slashed in the maximum security wing of the prison near Durham where Huntley has been held since 2008.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said his condition was not thought to be life-threatening.
“A prisoner at HMP Frankland was assaulted by another prisoner at about 3.25pm on Sunday 21 March,” he said. “The prisoner was taken to a hospital outside the prison for treatment.”
It is the latest in a series of violent attacks on Huntley since he was sentenced to serve a minimum of 40 years in December 2003.
In Belmarsh prison, in south London, in 2004, he was punched in the face, and was later attacked in the prison showers.
The following year he was attacked in Wakefield prison, West Yorkshire, by a prisoner who said he was a father of young children and was acting to avenge the deaths of Holly and Jessica.
In September of 2005, an inmate threw boiling water over him in the healthcare wing of the same high security jail which houses some of the most dangerous prisoners in the country.
Paul Marshall, who was serving time at the prison for rape, said he had acted in self-defence and was not prosecuted.
Huntley was moved to Frankland prison in January 2008. Later that year, prison inspectors raised concerns about violence in the jail.
As well as suffering attacks, Huntley has also made three suicide attempts since he has been in prison.
He was convicted of the Soham murders at the Old Bailey in December 2003.
The two girls had vanished from their homes in the Cambridgeshire village in August the previous year. At the time, Huntley was working as a caretaker at the village secondary school. He and his then girlfriend, Maxine Carr, who was working as a teaching assistant in the girl’s junior class, told police they knew nothing of the circumstances surrounding their disappearance.
During the trial it emerged that Huntley had met Holly and Jessica as they walked past his house and enticed them inside, killed them and hid their remains.
Carr was convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by giving Huntley a fals alibi and lying about her whereabouts on the weekend when the two girls were killed.
She has now been released from prison and given a new identity.
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7070521.ece
This all happened in the prison like 20 miles from my house..
Huntley, who is serving two life sentences for the killings of the schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, was moved from HMP Frankland Prison to hospital yesterday afternoon.
Reports suggested that his throat had been slashed in the maximum security wing of the prison near Durham where Huntley has been held since 2008.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said his condition was not thought to be life-threatening.
“A prisoner at HMP Frankland was assaulted by another prisoner at about 3.25pm on Sunday 21 March,” he said. “The prisoner was taken to a hospital outside the prison for treatment.”
It is the latest in a series of violent attacks on Huntley since he was sentenced to serve a minimum of 40 years in December 2003.
In Belmarsh prison, in south London, in 2004, he was punched in the face, and was later attacked in the prison showers.
The following year he was attacked in Wakefield prison, West Yorkshire, by a prisoner who said he was a father of young children and was acting to avenge the deaths of Holly and Jessica.
In September of 2005, an inmate threw boiling water over him in the healthcare wing of the same high security jail which houses some of the most dangerous prisoners in the country.
Paul Marshall, who was serving time at the prison for rape, said he had acted in self-defence and was not prosecuted.
Huntley was moved to Frankland prison in January 2008. Later that year, prison inspectors raised concerns about violence in the jail.
As well as suffering attacks, Huntley has also made three suicide attempts since he has been in prison.
He was convicted of the Soham murders at the Old Bailey in December 2003.
The two girls had vanished from their homes in the Cambridgeshire village in August the previous year. At the time, Huntley was working as a caretaker at the village secondary school. He and his then girlfriend, Maxine Carr, who was working as a teaching assistant in the girl’s junior class, told police they knew nothing of the circumstances surrounding their disappearance.
During the trial it emerged that Huntley had met Holly and Jessica as they walked past his house and enticed them inside, killed them and hid their remains.
Carr was convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by giving Huntley a fals alibi and lying about her whereabouts on the weekend when the two girls were killed.
She has now been released from prison and given a new identity.
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7070521.ece
This all happened in the prison like 20 miles from my house..