Booney wrote:One of the UK’s most notorious child killers has died, days after he was attacked by a fellow inmate in the workshop of a maximum-security prison.
Ian Huntley, a 52-year-old former school caretaker convicted in 2003 for the murder of two 10-year-old girls, had been on life support after being hit repeatedly over the head with a metal bar at Frankland prison in northeast England on February 26.
The murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman had transfixed the United Kingdom for two weeks after the best friends vanished from the village of Soham in eastern England on August 4, 2002 after leaving a barbecue to buy sweets.
Good bye.
One can only hope it was a seriously slow, painful horrible death.
