Huntley’s life support was switched off on Friday, the BBC understands.<\/p>\n
The brutality of his crimes made him a target in prison and he had been attacked several times previously. The BBC understands that triple killer Anthony Russell, 43, is suspected of attacking Huntley. <\/p>\n
Sources previously told the BBC Huntley was found lying in a pool of blood after being bludgeoned with a makeshift weapon at a workshop at the high security prison in County Durham.<\/p>\n
This was not the first time Huntley had been attacked at the prison – he was slashed across the throat and needed 21 stitches in 2010.<\/p>\n
HMP Frankland houses some of the most dangerous criminals including murderers and rapists.<\/p>\n
And, in 2005, he was attacked by a convicted murderer who threw boiling water over him at HMP Wakefield.<\/p>\n
Durham Constabulary have said they are preparing a file for the Crown Prosecution Service for the consideration of charges.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the force said “a police investigation into the circumstances of the incident is ongoing”.<\/p>\n
Holly and Jessica vanished after leaving a family barbecue in their small town near Cambridge in August 2002.<\/p>\n
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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huntley’s life support was switched off on Friday, the BBC understands. The brutality of his crimes made him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-462472","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462472","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=462472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}