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Police have announced that a prison inmate has been charged with the murder of Ian Huntley, the man convicted of the Soham murders. Anthony Russell, aged 43, is scheduled to appear via video link at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court this Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for Durham Constabulary.
Huntley passed away on Saturday after sustaining injuries during an assault at HMP Frankland, a high-security prison in County Durham, which occurred at the end of February. The former school caretaker, who was serving a life sentence for the murders of 10-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, had been found injured in a workshop within the prison.
Emergency services responded to reports of an assault early on Thursday, 26 February. Sources have described how Huntley was discovered lying in a pool of blood after being struck with an improvised weapon. He was subsequently hospitalized with serious injuries, but succumbed to them nine days later at the age of 52.
Huntley’s crime had shocked the nation. He had murdered Holly and Jessica, close friends who disappeared after leaving a family barbecue in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002. It is believed that Huntley, then 28, enticed the girls back to his home, where he killed them. After extensive searches following their disappearance, their bodies were discovered in a ditch two weeks later. Huntley was arrested the same day. His girlfriend at the time, Maxine Carr, was convicted in 2003 of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by providing Huntley with a false alibi. She was later released in 2004 and given a new identity.
The Ministry of Justice has described the case as “one of the most shocking and devastating” in the country’s history, expressing condolences to the victims’ families. Ian Huntley had also been the target of previous attacks while incarcerated. In 2005, at HMP Wakefield, he was assaulted with boiling water, and five years later, at HMP Frankland, he suffered a throat injury that required 21 stitches
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