Ian Huntley’s daughter said she was “over the moon” when fiend died – and she will be saving her tears for his 10-year-old victims. Samantha Bryan, 27, said: “I felt relieved. I didn’t cry. I smiled. I was over the moon to be honest.”
She said she was “just glad he’s gone” and admitted his death didn’t come as much of a shock as the hated child killer was a walking target in prison.
She said: “When I heard last week he’d been terribly injured as I thought he’d died then. So I was kind of expecting this call. But at the same time it is a shock to be told your biological father is dead. He’s nothing to me apart from biology.”
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Huntley died a week after being ambushed in the notorious HMP Frankland, where he was serving life for the murders of ten-year-old schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells.
Samantha told the Sun: “Over the years I’ve cried many times over the thought of Holly and Jessica and what their family have gone through. I don’t ever want Holly and Jessica to ever be forgotten.”
She said of her evil dad: “You’d normally never wish death on anyone but when it comes to people like him how could you not? I wanted him gone. Mostly for selfish reasons, but another part of me wanted him to stay alive so he would suffer.”
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Evil Huntley died on Saturday, nine days after he was brutally beaten in jail. Doctors turned off the child murderer’s ventilator after deciding there was no hope he would awake from a coma.
It is thought Huntley’s mother Lynda Richards, 71, was at his bedside. The Ministry of Justice confirmed he died at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary yesterday morning.
His only daughter, Samantha said “there’s a special place in hell waiting for him” after the incident. The 52-year-old was taken to hospital after being found in a pool of blood on February 26.
Huntley had been given only a 5% chance of survival after he was hit up to 15 times with a three-foot spiked metal pole at HMP Frankland, Co. Durham.
The attack by a fellow lag during a prison workshop reportedly “split his head in two” and left him blind and with “massive” brain injuries. Police said a man in his mid-40s was being investigated over the incident.
Huntley carried out one of the country’s most shocking killings when he murdered 10-year-old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambs., in 2002.
He killed the pair, who were dressed in matching Man United shirts, after they left a family barbecue to buy sweets.
Huntley dumped their bodies in a ditch then carried out TV interviews and helped arrange press conferences about their disappearance whilst cops searched for the missing friends.
He was convicted of the murder of both girls in December 2003 and sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment.