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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Holly Evans

Ian Huntley detective says killer ‘never had the decency to tell the truth’

  • Child killer Ian Huntley died in hospital over the weekend at the age of 52, nine days after reportedly being attacked in prison.
  • Chris Stevenson, the retired detective who led the Soham murders case, expressed “mixed feelings” about Huntley's death, lamenting that the killer “never had the decency to tell the whole truth” about his crimes.
  • “I have always wanted him to spend the remainder of his life in prison and wake up every morning thinking about what he did,” Mr Stevenson told The Times.
  • Huntley was serving a life sentence for the 2002 murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
  • Triple killer Anthony Russell is alleged to have attacked Huntley with a spiked metal pole, and a police investigation into the incident is ongoing.

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