{"id":333697,"date":"2026-03-07T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:31:08","slug":"soham-double-murderer-ian-huntley-dies-days-after-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333697\/","title":{"rendered":"Soham double murderer Ian Huntley dies days after attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soham double murderer Ian Huntley has died in hospital after being attacked in the workshop of a British maximum security prison.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old suffered severe brain trauma in the attack at HMP Frankland, Durham, on 26 February.<\/p>\n<p>A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: &#8220;The murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman remains one of the most shocking and devastating cases in our nation&#8217;s history, and our thoughts are with their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huntley, who murdered the ten-year-olds in 2002, had been on life support in hospital after being hit repeatedly over the head by an inmate armed with a metal bar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Holly Wells on the left and her best friend Jessica Chapman are shown in this undated photograph\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0023f69f-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nHolly Wells (L) and Jessica Chapman were murdered by Ian Huntley in 2002<\/p>\n<p>His life support was switched off at lunchtime yesterday after brain tests showed he was in a vegetative state, The Sun reported, and he was confirmed dead this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Durham Constabulary said: &#8220;A man who was attacked at HMP Frankland in Durham last week has died in hospital this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ian Huntley, 52, was taken to hospital with serious injuries following an incident in the workshop on the morning of Thursday, February 26.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A police investigation into the circumstances of the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A file is being prepared for the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration for charges.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soham double murderer Ian Huntley has died in hospital after being attacked in the workshop of a British&hellip;\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":["post-333697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333697","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=333697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333697\/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=333697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}