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Soham double murderer Ian Huntley remains in hospital in a serious condition after being attacked with a makeshift weapon by another inmate. The BBC understands that triple killer Anthony Russell, 43, is suspected of attacking Huntley. Huntley, 52, has suffered significant head trauma from his injuries and is undergoing treatment. He is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for murdering schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in August 2002. 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...

Ian Huntley, the former school caretaker who murdered two 10-year-old schoolgirls in Soham, has been attacked in prison. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were best friends who vanished after leaving a family barbecue in 2002 in their small town near Cambridge. Huntley, a cruel and calculating man who feigned concern for the girls during TV interviews at the time of the search, was jailed for life in 2003. The brutality of his crimes have made him a target in prison and he has been attacked several times. The latest assault, which saw him bludgeoned with a makeshift weapon in a...

Ian Huntley, the killer of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, is considering converting to Islam, it has been claimed. Huntley, 34, serving life at the maximum security Frankland Prison in County Durham, has started reading the Koran on a daily basis after befriending two Muslim inmates, according to The People. The Soham killer is thought to have turned to the small group of Muslim inmates in Frankland after being threatened by other prisoners. He has even asked them to take him to a prayer meeting after finding the passages of the Islamic holy book the Koran are helping his...