Ian Huntley was injured while he was being held at HMP Frankland in County Durham, a maximum security facility that holds some of the UK’s most violent and dangerous offenders
Ian Huntley, the notorious Soham double murderer, has been left seriously injured following an assault at the “Monster Mansion” prison where he lives with multiple other notorious criminals.
Huntley, 52, who is serving a life sentence at HMP Frankland in County Durham for the 2002 murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, is understood to have been attacked earlier this morning in the prison workshop. An air ambulance was dispatched following the attack, believed to have taken place just before 9.30am, but Huntley was transported to hospital by road.
Durham Constabulary launched an investigation at the facility, which is known for its vast number of infamous prisoners, including terrorists, mass murderers, serial rapists and the man who murdered MP Jo Cox.
‘I spent days with Ian Huntley in the presence of evil without even knowing’
‘I served in jail Ian Huntley was attacked in and will never forget one horrific incident’
The attack at Frankland is also not the first to hit headlines this week, with a court hearing that Damien Bendall, 36, struck fellow lag Michael Mullaney four times during a brutal hammer attack in 2024. Cage fighter Bendall, who was already serving a whole-life sentence for murdering his pregnant partner and three children, was further jailed for the May attack on Monday.
The weapons was described at Teeside Crown Court as being similar to the one Bendall had used to kill the family during his horror onslaught in Killamarsh, Derbyshire, in 2021.
The prisoner will never be released, having been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 15 years after he was found to have attempted to murder Michael Mullaney. When asked why he attempted to kill Mullaney, with whom he would occasionally play domines, he said: “I don’t know.”
Frankland, which has operated for the last more than 40 years, houses more than 800 inmates, and has a specialist “prison within a prison” for its most extremist inmates with terrorism or national security convictions.
