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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T21:24:11.000Z",
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    "Ian Huntley ‘unlikely to survive’ prison attack as killer left 'blind and on life support'",
    "Inmate who 'battered Ian Huntley' and left him 'fighting for his life' pictured",
    "Child killer Ian Huntley 'fighting for his life' after brutal prison attack with metal pole",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nIan Huntley's life support machine has been switched off with the Soham murderer just hours from death.\n\nThe 52-year-old suffered severe brain trauma in the attack at HMP Frankland, Durham, on February 26.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nSources told The Sun Huntley’s life support was switched off at lunchtime today, Friday, after brain tests showed he was in a vegetative state.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHuntley's mother, 71-year-old Lynda Richards has been the only member of his family to visit him in hospital.\n\nSources in the hospital said the murderer was able to \"shallow breathe\" without life support. However, he is not expected to survive for much longer.\n\nOne person close to the case told The Sun last night: \"This is it, this is the end of Huntley. He is effectively dead and, at the best, is drawing his last breaths.\n\n\"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.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHuntley murdered the two girls after they left a family barbecue to buy sweets in Soham, Cambridgeshire, on August 4 2002.\n\nHe dumped their bodies in a ditch in a case that shocked the nation.\n\nAfter the attack on him in prison, 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.\"\n\nMurderer and rapist Anthony Russell, 43, reportedly shouted \"I’ve done it, I’ve done it\" after Huntley was attacked in the recycling area of the prison.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * Ian Huntley ‘unlikely to survive’ prison attack as killer left 'blind and on life support'\n  * Inmate who 'battered Ian Huntley' and left him 'fighting for his life' pictured\n  * Child killer Ian Huntley 'fighting for his life' after brutal prison attack with metal pole\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nDurham 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.\n\nRussell 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.\n\nRussell also raped Ms McGregor.\n\nIt was the latest attempt on Huntley’s life and he was thought to have been kept under close observation to prevent such attacks.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIn 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.\n\nFowkes asked a prison officer: “Is he dead? I hope so.”\n\nHe described Huntley as a “notorious child killer, both inside prison and in society in general”.\n\nHuntley’s life sentence recommended he serve at least 40 years for the Soham murders.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "Ian Huntley hours from death as child killer’s life support machine SHUT OFF after brutal prison attack"
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