Soham Killer Huntley's Throat Slashed In Jail
The Ministry of Justice said he was attacked in Frankland Prison,
County Durham, where he is serving two life sentences for murdering
schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Sky's crime correspondent Martin Brunt said Huntley was taken to
hospital after being attacked by a fellow inmate with a home-made
implement.
A Ministry spokesman said: "A prisoner at HMP Frankland was assaulted by another prisoner at about 3.25pm on Sunday March 21.
"The prisoner was taken to outside hospital for treatment. His condition is not thought to be life-threatening."
Huntley was convicted of murdering the 10-year-old girls in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in 2002.
Brunt said: "Although his injuries are not thought to be
life-threatening, it does sound quite a serious attack - serious enough
for him to be taken outside the prison to hospital rather than being
treated by medical staff inside the prison.
"As for the weapon, it's fairly common for a plastic a toothbrush to
be melted and a razor blade inserted in the end - pretty terrifying.
"It's difficult to tell if he was slashed more than once."
Today's assault is not the first time Huntley has been attacked in prison.
An inmate threw boiling water on him while he was on the health care
wing at the high-security Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire in
September 2005.
HMP Frankland is a Category A high security men's prison.
The murder of the two girls sent shockwaves across the country during the summer of 2002.
Huntley, a caretaker at the secondary school in Soham, and his then
girlfriend Maxine Carr, a teaching assistant in Holly and Jessica's
junior school class, told police that they knew nothing of the
circumstances surrounding the girls' disappearance.
But it emerged at their trial at the Old Bailey in December 2003
that Huntley had met Holly and Jessica as they walked past his home,
enticed them inside and killed them before hiding their remains.
Huntley was given two life terms after being convicted of the girls' murders.
Carr was jailed after being convicted of perverting the course of justice and has now been released from prison.
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