{"id":462470,"date":"2026-03-07T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462470\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:34:07","slug":"ian-huntley-not-worth-the-breath-of-the-people-of-soham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462470\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Huntley &#8216;not worth the breath&#8217; of the people of Soham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trusted contacts, as well as the entire town council and a vicar, have all declined to talk about him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But among those who have spoken anonymously, some see Huntley&#8217;s death as poetic justice, a blessing in disguise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For others, it is a catastrophic failure by the Prison Service as he should be spending the full sentence &#8211; life with a minimum term of 40 years &#8211; behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only Charlotte Cane, the Liberal Democrat MP for Ely and East Cambridgeshire, was willing to speak on camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She says of Huntley: &#8220;He clearly didn&#8217;t want to serve his full life sentence; he clearly found it difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But, in many ways, I don&#8217;t really care about him anymore. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the people who suffered because of him, they&#8217;re the people who matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trusted contacts, as well as the entire town council and a vicar, have all declined to talk about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462470","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=462470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}