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Ian Huntley, the convicted Soham murderer, died as a result of a blunt force injury to his head sustained during an assault in prison, according to evidence presented at an inquest. The 52-year-old was attacked at HMP Frankland in Durham on 26 February, being repeatedly struck with a metal bar. He subsequently passed away nine days later at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.
Huntley was serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for the 2002 murders of 10-year-old friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire. At the opening of the inquest into his death, senior coroner Jeremy Chipperfield from County Durham and Darlington explained that the proceedings would be paused pending ongoing criminal cases.
Anthony Russell, aged 43, has been charged with Huntley’s murder and is scheduled to appear at Newcastle Crown Court on 24 April. The evidence read to the coroner during the brief hearing in Crook outlined that Huntley had been struck multiple times on the head with a metal bar by another inmate, which caused severe head trauma leading to his death on 7 March.
A post-mortem examination performed by forensic pathologist Dr Jennifer Bolton confirmed blunt head injury as the cause of death. The original crime that Huntley was convicted for involved the disappearance and subsequent murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, who went missing in August 2002 after leaving a family barbecue. It is understood the girls were on their way to buy sweets when Huntley, then 28, deceived them into returning to his home before killing them. Their bodies were discovered in a ditch two weeks after they vanished, a case that attracted national media attention at the time
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