Ian Huntley ordered Xbox recreation with chilling title days earlier than being attacked behind bars – and it arrived at jail three days after he died
Murdered child killer Ian Huntley bought an Xbox game called Dark Souls: Prepare to Die, which was delivered to prison three days after his death.
Huntley died in hospital from injuries he suffered when he was attacked with a metal pole in a prison workshop on February 26.
The Xbox game arrived on Tuesday, three days after his death, which followed a decision to turn off his life support.
Huntley had his gaming console confiscated in January after prison officers found contraband in his cell.
But it is understood he was allowed to have it again for good behaviour in the weeks before his death aged 52.
The former school caretaker, who murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in 2002, was bludgeoned at HMP Frankland, County Durham.
He was left in an induced coma at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary and died last Saturday at around 8.45am after doctors – who consulted his 71-year-old mother Lynda Richards, the only relative to visit the killer – switched off his ventilator.
Fellow HMP Frankland inmate and triple killer Anthony Russell, 43, is accused of murder.
Ian Huntley ordered the chillingly-titled game days before he was attacked at HMP Frankland
The Xbox game arrived at the jail three days after he died from his injuries
A source told The Sun ‘no one could believe’ when Huntley’s video game arrived at the prison, adding inmates were ‘cracking sick jokes’ and ‘commenting on the irony’ of the order.
They added: ‘A couple of them even asked if they could have the game.’
However there are strict rules concerning prisoners’ property when they die.
The game Huntley ordered is a 2012 re-release of a game from the previous year, in which gamers play a cursed undead character who escapes from an asylum and must make a pilgrimage to discover the fate of their kind.
Players fight battles and collect souls during the game, while they must upgrade their weapons to stay alive.
The Daily Mail reported last week that Huntley was hospitalised after he was ‘ripped apart like a rat’, according to a woman who visited the prison previously.
He suffered catastrophic skull injuries.
This week more than 40,000 people signed a petition demanding no public money be spent on Huntley’s funeral.
Anthony Russell, a 43-year-old triple murderer, appeared in court charged with murder this week
A source previously told the Daily Mail the fight had broken out between Huntley and a fellow inmate on his wing, who then ‘got a metal bar from the waste metal crates and smashed Huntley three times in the head with it‘.
Huntley was feared to have died at the scene but he was placed in a medically induced coma by paramedics.
Ms Richards, who travelled 175 miles from her Lincolnshire home to her son’s bedside, said he looked ‘unrecognisable’ and confessed ‘part of me hopes he dies’ because of the repeated attacks he suffered.
Huntley’s hospital security was downgraded five days before his death when doctors realised he would not survive his coma.
This was the third and final time Huntley was attacked in jail. In 2010, his throat was slashed with a homemade weapon by armed robber Damien Fowkes, creating a wound that was 7in (18cm) long and required 21 stitches.
In 2005, fellow murderer Mark Hobson also threw boiling water over him in Wakefield Prison.
Last year, he was said to have been strutting around the jail wearing a No 10 Manchester United-style shirt in an apparent vile taunt about his victims. The top was later confiscated by security guards.
A photo of Holly and Jessica wearing the football shirts, taken on the same day Huntley lured them into his home, became synonymous with the search to find them at the time.
Jessica Chapman (left) and Holly Wells, both 10, were killed by Huntley in 2002 in a double murder which horrified the nation
The schoolgirls, who were best friends, had gone out to buy sweets on the afternoon of August 4, 2002, when school caretaker Huntley lured them into his home and murdered them, before dumping their bodies in a ditch some 12 miles away.
He would later return and attempt to set fire to them.
They were not discovered until more than a week after they went missing, by which time some 400 police officers had joined with local residents to search for the missing youngsters.
Their disappearance after a family barbecue sent shockwaves through the close-knit community and became one of the most sickening child murders the country has ever seen.
He was convicted in 2003 of both murders, having pleaded not guilty, and was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 40 years.
The Daily Mail’s chief reporter Sam Greenhill was invited into Huntley’s home unaware of his crimes and revealed what he saw inside.
His then-fiancée Maxine Carr, who was a teaching assistant at the girls’ school, would also be jailed for three-and-a-half years after giving her partner a false alibi in a bid to help him evade justice.
She famously turned on her partner at court and Huntley was convicted, having tried to claim he had killed both girls accidentally.
Huntley (left) was convicted of the murders after pleading not guilty. His girlfriend at the time Maxine Carr gave him a false alibi but turned on him in the witness box
HMP Frankland on February 26, after Ian Huntley was attacked inside by another inmate
He lied that Holly had drowned in his bath and that he had accidentally suffocated Jessica while attempting to stop her from screaming.
HMP Frankland, dubbed ‘Monster Mansion’, holds some of Britain’s worst criminals including murderers, rapists and terrorists who are known for turning on each other.
The Category A prison is home to Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens and Michael Adebolajo, one of two terrorists who killed British Army soldier Lee Rigby.
A prison source said Wing A of HMP Frankland is made up of inmates at risk of attack from other prisoners, such as sex offenders or jailed police officers.
And in a bid to protect them, they are moved around the prison as a group and are kept segregated from other inmates.
