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Soham murderer Huntley set to sue prison service
Inmates threaten Ian Huntley after news emerges that he wants £100,000 compensation for razor attack
The convicted child murderer Ian Huntley is reported to have received death threats from fellow inmates at Frankland high security prison, County Durham, after it was revealed that he plans to sue the prison service for £100,000 in compensation.
Huntley, who is serving life for the 2002 murder of the 10-year-old Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, claims that the prison authorities failed in their 'duty of care' when another prisoner slashed his throat with a razor blade in March. The cut narrowly missed his jugular vein.
Victims' rights campaigners have reacted with fury to the news of his compensation claim. And, according to the Sunday Mirror, fellow prisoners at Frankland have put 35-year-old Huntley at the top of a jail 'hit list'.
A prison source told the paper: "He was petrified when told that news of his compensation claim had leaked out. It didn't take long for other prisoners to hear about it and all hell broke out.
"They were shouting 'Watch your back, Huntley' and 'You'll never live to see that money'."
Beyond the prison walls, Huntley's compensation claim has been met with equally vehement reaction. The Ministry of Justice has said it will "vigorously defend" the prison service against any legal claim.
Victims' rights campaigner Ann Oakes-Odger, whose son Westley was killed in a knife attack in 2005, described Huntley's decision to sue as an "absolute moral obscenity" and asked how he could possibly have access to legal aid.
Another campaigner, Norman Brennan of the Victims of Crime Trust, said: "If Huntley had the slightest remorse for the terrible murder of these two girls he would drop the case immediately.
"The compensation culture in Britain has turned our criminal justice system on its head. What message is sent out when the two families in this matter received maximum £11,000 and yet Huntley, for injuries received while serving a sentence, could get many times that." ·
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Is this Monster for real? i live in a village next to Soham and i remember the soham murders extremely well as, i am sure, everyone in Cambridgeshire does. It shocked everyone to the absolute core!!!!!!!!
Yet now HE wants compensation? i would say he should be shot but that would just be to nice for him. The day he get a pay out or released is the day this country has gone under for good, it was bad enough they let loose his partner in crime "maxine carr" what punishment did she get...? oh yes a whole new life!!!
It is SHOCKING!!!! I am absolutely discusted with this monster-as he certainly is not human!!!!!!
Who get's the money when he is in for life? He is just seeking publicity and recognition. He was slashed because of the bad deed he did. How I wish they would have gone for his jugular.
The great irony is he had attempted suicide (3 times?) !! Will he claim compensation for that?