Ian Huntley reportedly left "blind" by prison attack
The Soham killer reportedly isn't expected to regain consciousness
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Soham killer Ian Huntley has been blinded and is not expected to regain consciousness following an attack in the workshop of a maximum security prison, according to reports.
The 52 year-old was seriously injured in an attack at HMP Frankland in Durham on February 26th.
The former school caretaker, who murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, has been kept on life support in hospital after being hit repeatedly over the head by an inmate armed with a metal bar.
The Sun is reporting that the attack has left Huntley blind 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.
The Frankland attack was the latest attempt on Huntley’s life and he was thought to have been kept under close observation to prevent such attacks.
In 2010, robber Damien Fowkes slashed him with a home-made weapon, causing a “severe, gaping cut to the left side of his neck” with a 7in (18cm) wound which required 21 stitches.
Fowkes asked a prison officer: “Is he dead? I hope so.”
He described Huntley as a “notorious child killer, both inside prison and in society in general”.
Huntley’s life sentence recommended he serve at least 40 years for the Soham murders.