Soham killer Ian Huntley's life support reportedly switched off
It's understood the murderer Ian Huntley is no longer on life support
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Soham killer Ian Huntley’s life-support machine has reportedly been switched off.
The Sun newspaper said the 52-year-old suffered severe brain trauma in the attack at HMP Frankland, Durham, on February 26th.
The former school caretaker, who murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, had been kept on life support in hospital after being hit repeatedly over the head by an inmate armed with a metal bar.
Huntley’s life support was reportedly switched off at lunchtime on Friday after brain tests showed he was in a vegetative state.
The attack left Huntley blind, the newspaper said, and it quoted a source saying: “Huntley never recovered from the battering and never stood much of a chance of doing so.”
Durham Constabulary has not identified the suspect but it said on the day of the attack that a man in his mid-40s had been detained.
After the attack, Huntley’s only daughter Samantha Bryan, 27, told The Sun on Sunday of her father: “There’s a special place in hell waiting for him.”
Huntley murdered Holly and Jessica after they left a family barbecue to buy sweets in Soham, Cambridgeshire, on August 4 2002. He dumped their bodies in a ditch.
Huntley’s life sentence recommended he serve at least 40 years for the Soham murders.