Ian Huntley well being replace from police after youngster killer’s ‘head cut up in two’

Police have given an update on Soham child killer Ian Huntley after his head was reportedly “split in two” following an attack by a fellow inmate at HMP Frankland on Thursday (February 26).

Durham Constabulary released a statement this morning stating the condition of Huntley, 52, days after he was attacked in a workshop with a metal bar.

On Saturday morning (February 28), Durham Constabulary said there had been no change in his condition in hospital overnight.

A spokesperson said: “The 52-year-old man remains in hospital in a serious condition, there have been no changes overnight.”

According to reports, triple killer Anthony Russell allegedly shouted “I’ve done it, I’ve done it” after Huntley, 52, was repeatedly smashed over the head at HMP Frankland, Durham, on Thursday morning.

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The force declined to identify the suspect but said on Thursday that a man in his mid-40s had been detained in the prison, but had not yet been arrested.

Former caretaker Huntley killed 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman after they left a family barbecue to buy sweets in Soham, Cambridgeshire, on August 4 2002, then dumped their bodies in a ditch.

Last night, a source to the Sun spoke of how medical teams worked to save his life after he “clung on”.

Speaking to The Sun, they said: “It is miraculous he is still alive. Medics have worked miracles on him and he has clung on. The prison nurses and staff who first saw him thought he was gone.

“And medics said there was only a 5% chance of survival after an attack like that. It is still touch and go, and he could get worse. But it is extraordinary that he is still alive. When it first happened, he was totally unresponsive and could not breathe.”

Suspect Russell was sentenced to a whole life tariff in 2021 for the murders of Julie Williams, 58, and her son David Williams, 32, at separate flats in Coventry, and pregnant 31-year-old Nicole McGregor, who was found in woodland near Leamington Spa three days later.

Russell also raped Ms McGregor.

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