{"id":318460,"date":"2026-02-26T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318460\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:54:07","slug":"double-killer-ian-huntley-reportedly-attacked-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318460\/","title":{"rendered":"Double killer Ian Huntley reportedly attacked in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Double child killer Ian Huntley has suffered serious injuries after being attacked in prison in the UK.<\/p>\n

Durham Constabulary said a prisoner, understood to be Huntley, was assaulted this morning at HMP Frankland in County Durham before being taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the force said: “Police were alerted to an assault which had taken place within HMP Frankland in Durham this morning.<\/p>\n

“A male prisoner suffered serious injuries during the incident and was transported to hospital.<\/p>\n

“A police investigation is now under way into the circumstances of the incident and detectives are liaising with staff at the prison.”<\/p>\n

The Sun, which first reported the attack, said Huntley was attacked with a metal pole and quoted a source saying his condition was “touch and go”.<\/p>\n

The former caretaker killed 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman after they left a family barbecue to buy sweets in Soham, Cambridgeshire, on 4 August 2002, then dumped their bodies in a ditch.<\/p>\n

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\nHolly Wells (L) and Jessica Chapman were murdered by Ian Huntley in 2002<\/p>\n

He is serving a life sentence for their murders.<\/p>\n

A Prison Service spokesperson said: “A prisoner is receiving treatment after an incident at HMP Frankland on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

“It would be inappropriate to comment further while police investigate.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Double child killer Ian Huntley has suffered serious injuries after being attacked in prison in the UK. Durham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-318460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}