Soham Killer Ian Huntley murdered in Jail Secret Cremation Funded By State

The man who murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman has died in prison — and will now receive a taxpayer-funded cremation carried out in secret.

Ian Huntley, whose crimes in Soham in 2002 horrified Britain, died at 8:45am on Saturday after being taken off life support. He had been left in a vegetative state following a brutal attack by another inmate at HM Prison Frankland in County Durham.

Prison sources say the 52-year-old former school caretaker will now be quietly cremated at an undisclosed location in a service expected to cost around £3,000, paid for by the state.

Family Turned Away From The Killer

At the end, almost nobody wanted to claim Huntley.

The decision to switch off his life support at Royal Victoria Infirmary reportedly caused disagreement within his family.

Legally the responsibility could have fallen to his estranged daughter Samantha Bryan, who had never met her father and had long described him as a monster.

She previously said there was a “special place in Hell” waiting for him.

Instead, the decision ultimately fell to Huntley’s mother Lynda Richards, who travelled from Lincolnshire to the hospital after the attack. Before his death she reportedly said it would be “better if he doesn’t pull through”.

Violent End Behind Bars

Huntley had survived multiple attacks during his years in prison.

In 2005 an inmate threw boiling water over him at HM Prison Wakefield.
Five years later he required emergency surgery after his throat was slashed with a homemade weapon.

The final assault came on February 26 when fellow inmate Anthony Russell — a triple murderer and rapist — allegedly beat Huntley with a metal pole taken from a recycling crate inside the prison workshop.

He was found lying in a pool of blood.

A Crime That Shook Britain

Huntley was jailed for life in 2003 with a minimum term of 40 years for murdering ten-year-old friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

The girls vanished after leaving a barbecue in Soham, triggering one of the largest missing-person searches in British history.

Huntley initially claimed the girls had left his house alive, even appearing on television expressing sympathy for their families. In reality he had killed them, dumped their bodies in a remote ditch and burned their clothing in an attempt to destroy evidence.

He later admitted deliberately killing Jessica to stop her raising the alarm, but always insisted Holly’s death was accidental — a claim that never convinced investigators or the girls’ families.

Legacy Of The Soham Murders

The killings led to major reforms in Britain’s child-protection system.

Failures to share police intelligence allowed Huntley — who had faced multiple sexual assault allegations — to work as a school caretaker at Soham Village College.

The case prompted the creation of a national police intelligence database and tighter vetting procedures for people working with children.

More than two decades on, the horror of Soham still lingers.

Now the man responsible is gone — cremated quietly, with few mourning his passing and many believing the only true victims remain the two girls whose lives were cut tragically

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Cheaper than keeping him in jail another 30 years

Convicts don't like rock spiders or anyone who harms children. I'm amazed he wasn't put in protective custody at least after the first attack. A prison has a right to refuse protection, which is very restrictive in comparison to fairly normal life in the general population.

Of course, the state must cremate him...in a garbage incinerator.

His head was split in 2 by a steel bar wielded by Another killer

I used to work the Cambridge area including Soham when I was a rep, had one electrical contractor customer there.

The Ba*****d dumped the girls on a lane adjacent to RAF Lakeneath fence which I also know well from my days spotting military aircraft.