Soham murderer Ian Huntley sent his last note on February 18 which revealed he was having a tough time behind bars and hinted at fears he was about to be targeted in prison
Ian Huntley sent a final letter to a femal pen pal just eight days before he was brutally attacked in prison last week.
The 52-year-old was serving a life sentence, with a minimum term of 40 years, for murdering Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both ten at the time. They left a family barbecue to buy sweets in Soham, Cambridgeshire, on August 4, 2002 never to be seen alive by their loved ones again.
Huntley sent his last note on February 18 which hinted that he was having a tough time behind bars and hinted at fears he was about to be targeted in prison. Huntley told the female penpal “I’ve had a lot to deal with lately”.
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In his letter, Huntley — prisoner A5274AE — begins by saying: “Sorry for not writing sooner but I’ve had a lot to deal with lately. I hate writing letters at the best of times.”
As reported by The Sun the paranoid killer goes on to say: “I’ve had to do some thinking. For your safety I’ve decided to discard everything you’ve sent and not proceed with having you cleared for calls and visits.” He tells the woman, who started writing to him in October last year and sent him a Christmas card: “You’re a lovely person and I don’t want you placed in harm’s way due to your affiliation with me.”
Huntley ends: “Believe me when I say I have given this a great deal of thought and firmly believe it to be for the best. I hope all is well your end. Best wishes Ian.”
The identity of the woman has not been revealed.
The Soham murderer was rushed to hospital last Thursday after a fellow inmate allegedly bludgeoned his head with a metal pole. Huntley was initally assumed dead when prison officers found him lying on the ground in a pool of blood at HMP Frankland, otherwise known as ‘Monster Mansion’.
The child killer sustained severe injuries – including skull fractures, brain damage and a broken jaw. His grim final days were spent in a medically induced coma, with a ventilator to help him breathe. His mother Lynda Richards, who snuck in to visit her dying son, apparently couldn’t recognise Huntley after the attack.
Ministry of Justice confirmed Huntley died on Saturday morning (March 7), after Huntley’s mum Lynda, 71, agreed to let medics withdraw life support.
It wasn’t the first time Huntley was attacked in prison. Previous attempts have been made to harm at Huntley, including in September 2005, when the killer was scalded with boiling water whilst detained at HMP Wakefield in Yorkshire. Five years later, in 2010, Huntley was rushed to the University Hospital of North Durham after suffering a slash wound to the throat from a makeshift weapon.
Damien Fowkes, 36, admitted to the attempted murder of Huntley, as well as the killing of fellow inmate Colin Hatch, a paedophile and child murderer, at Full Sutton Prison, near York.
Fowkes inflicted a seven-inch wound on Huntley’s neck using a razor blade melted onto a piece of plastic cutlery. It is reported that Fowkes turned to a prison officer and asked: “Is he dead? I hope so.”
