In an update on Friday, Durham Constabulary said there had been “no change in the 52-year-old man’s condition overnight – he remains in hospital in a serious condition”. <\/p>\n
Previously police said a male prisoner in his mid-40s suspected of carrying out the attack was “in detention” but had not been arrested “at this stage”.<\/p>\n
The force also confirmed a police investigation is under way and that detectives are liaising with staff at the prison.<\/p>\n
Sources have told the BBC Huntley was found lying in a pool of blood after being bludgeoned with a make-shift weapon at a prison workshop at HMP Frankland – the high security prison in County Durham.<\/p>\n
Russell is serving a whole-life prison term for murdering Julie Williams, her son David Williams and Nicole McGregor, whose body was found in woodland near Leamington Spa.<\/p>\n
He had admitted the murders during a week-long spree in October 2020.<\/p>\n
This is not the first time Huntley has been attacked at the prison – he was slashed across the throat in 2010 – and needed 21 stiches. <\/p>\n
The prison is nicknamed monster mansion due to its extreme levels of violence. It houses some of the most dangerous criminals including murderers and rapists.<\/p>\n
Huntley was also attacked in 2005 by a convicted murderer who chucked boiling water over him at HMP Wakefield.<\/p>\n
As Huntley lies in hospital with serious injuries from the attack, many will be remembering the horror of what he did more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
In the commuter town of Soham in Cambridgeshire, Ian Huntley killed two ten-year-old girls in the summer of 2002.<\/p>\n
Holly and Jessica had been at a family barbeque. It is believed they were on their way to buy sweets when Huntley, then aged 28, lured them back to his home and killed them.<\/p>\n
The photo of the girls he killed – in their red Manchester United football kits – is etched in the minds of many who vividly remember their disappearance and murder.<\/p>\n
It was taken by Holly’s mum Nicola just an hour-and-a-half before they were last seen. It dominated news reports at the time as a nationwide search for them took place.<\/p>\n
Four hundred officers worked full-time on the case. Hundreds more volunteers joined the search but nearly a fortnight after they disappeared \u2013 the girls’ bodies were found in a ditch in Suffolk.<\/p>\n
Huntley was arrested the same day. He was subsequently convicted and sentenced to a minimum of 40 years for the double murders – with the judge saying “in your lies and manipulation up to this very day, you have increased the suffering you have caused the two families”.<\/p>\n
His girlfriend Maxine Carr was also jailed in 2003 after being found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice for giving him a false alibi. She has since been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an update on Friday, Durham Constabulary said there had been “no change in the 52-year-old man’s condition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-448524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}