Ian Huntley Has Life Support ‘Switched Off’ And Is ‘Hours From Death’

[UPDATE: He just died 30 seconds after I published this. Oh well.]

Following the news that Soham child killer Ian Huntley had been left blind and brain-damaged following an assault by a fellow inmate at HMP Frankland, a decision has now been taken to turn off his life support machine.

According to The Sun, medics have withdrawn the ventilator that was keeping him alive following discussions with his mum Lynda Richards, who was by his bedside.

Huntley, 52, was rushed to the hospital last week after being bashed over the head multiple times by triple murderer and rapist Anthony Russell, 43, in the prison workshop.

Prison staff assumed he was dead when they found him, and medics at the hospital gave him just a 5% chance of survival.

Even if he did survive, he would not have been sent back to HMP Frankland, as his injuries will have been so severe.

A source said: “This is it, this is the end of Huntley. He is effectively dead and, at the best, is drawing his last breaths.

“No one who has dealt with him is shedding a tear. Even his mother has accepted that this is for the best, having seen him and knowing what a state he is in.

“He never really recovered from the beating he took, and never stood much of a chance of doing so. Huntley had been attacked loads of times in prison so the day he was killed was always likely to arrive.”

Huntley was serving a 40-year sentence at HMP Frankland, County Durham for murdering ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002.

Working as a school caretaker at the time, he lured the girls into his home under the pretense of seeing his partner Maxine Carr who was a teaching assistant at their school, and murdered them.

During his time in prison, Huntley had boiling water thrown over him and his throat slashed. The latter incident left him needing 21 stitches.

Given his crimes and reputation, it’s actually incredible that Huntley survived in prison for as long as he did. Perhaps beating him to death would have been too easy at the start, but he’d now been locked up for over 20 years. It seems inevitable that this was always going to be the outcome at some point.

Some may refer to his killer, Anthony Russell, as a hero, but let’s not forget this is a guy who strangled three people to death and raped a pregnant woman. Maybe he’ll suffer the same fate as Huntley one day.

For the time ‘Britain’s worst rapist’ was also brutally assaulted behind bars, click HERE.