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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Daily Mail
Double child killer Ian Huntley is taunted by fellow prisoners after guards seized is 'football' shirt and moved him to new cell
Child killer Ian Huntley has been taunted by inmates after having his possessions, including a Manchester United-style football shirt, seized by prison guards. The 51-year-old school caretaker, who is serving two life sentences for murdering 10-year-olds Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells in 2002, had his cell at HMP Frankland, Durham, raided earlier this month following backlash. He had reportedly been 'strutting around' prison wearing a red shirt with a white number 10 on the back in an apparent vile taunt about his victims. A photo of the schoolgirls wearing matching Manchester United shirts - taken just 90 minutes before they were last seen on August 4 - became synonymous with the desperate search which gripped the country. The shirt, which Huntley is thought to have ordered from Sports Direct and was made to look 'as close to a Man Utd top' as he could, was later confiscated by guards after being 'warned about his vile behaviour'. It's understood framed pictures of Huntley with his former fiancée Maxine Carr - who was sentenced to 42 months in prison for helping him cover up the murders - and other items including DVDs were also seized. Following the raid, Huntley has been moved to a more exposed cell where prisoners routinely taunt the killer for losing his prized possessions, according to an insider. 'They've given him merry hell since the story, yelling, "Huntley where's your shirt?" in football chant style,' a source told The Sun. 'They're shouting insults and calling him "sicko" and stuff. They've also mocked him about losing the Carr pictures. Huntley's livid. He's been going up the wall. 'The story's made the prison bosses realise that they have to treat him the same as everyone else and not give him special treatment.' Inmates at HMP Frankland complained about the football-style shirt in May but nothing was done, according to The Sun. It is understood that because it is not an actual football shirt, Huntley had not broken any prison rules by wearing it. The move was criticised by Robert Jenrick who said Huntley should not be 'swanning around' in jail insulting the memory of his victims. The Tory shadow justice secretary said it should be 'ripped off his back' by prison guards. Guards later 'stormed' his cell and confiscated the shirt. As a further punishment he was also moved to a new cell in the middle of a landing, where he is said to be more exposed to other inmates. HMP Frankland is a Category A prison in Durham that houses terrorists and killers including Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi, disgraced police officer Wayne Couzens and serial killer Levi Bellfield. An image of Jessica and Holly wearing matching Man Utd tops was one of the last haunting images of them before they went missing. They were later discovered by police burned and dumped in a bin. Despite being responsible for the murders, Huntley gave TV interviews and joined in searches while his then-girlfriend Maxine Carr gave him a false alibi. Carr even showed off an end-of-term card the girls had sent her, covered in loving comments and kisses. Huntley, meanwhile, repeatedly spoke of how he was the last person to see the girls before their apparent disappearance. He also helped organised community events to help the search effort. The truth was that Huntley had lured the girls into the home he shared with Carr, as they passed by. He has never fully revealed what took place there, but within an hour both girls were dead. Then he hid their bodies near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, six miles away, and later returned to set fire to them. When he was in court, Huntley lamely claimed that both schoolgirls had died accidentally. He said Holly drowned in his bath and that he inadvertently suffocated Jessica while trying to stifle her screams. But in 2018 he confessed to deliberately killing Jessica to stop her from raising the alarm. He continued to insist that Holly's death was an accident. Huntley was jailed for life in 2005. Carr was jailed for perverting the course of justice and was released in 2004 with a new identity. The Ministry of Justice does not comment on individual prisoners, but replica sportswear has not been permitted in UK prisons for several years.


The Irish Sun
4 days ago
- The Irish Sun
Evil Ian Huntley mercilessly mocked by fellow lags as he's forced to move cells after sick victim taunts
DOUBLE child killer Ian Huntley is being taunted in jail over his red Manchester United-style top being seized by warders — with fellow lags chanting: 'Huntley, Huntley, where's your shirt?' Guards turned over Advertisement 3 Double child killer Ian Huntley is being taunted in jail over his red Manchester United-style top being seized by warders Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd 3 Huntley's ex Maxine Carr gave him a bogus alibi after the murders in Soham, Cambs, in August, 2002 Credit: Cambridgeshire Police Best pals Jail staff also took framed photos of As further punishment the killer — who is serving at least 40 years — was moved to a cell in the middle of a landing where he is more exposed to other inmates at high-security HMP Frankland, Co Durham. A source said: 'He's no longer in a cell beside a guards' office at the end of a corridor so inmates can now shout up at his window as they pass. Advertisement Read More on UK News 'They've given him merry hell since the story, yelling, 'Huntley where's your shirt?' in football chant style. "They're shouting insults and calling him 'sicko' and stuff. They've also mocked him about losing the Carr pictures. Huntley's livid. He's been going up the wall. 'The story's made the prison bosses realise that they have to treat him the same as everyone else and not give him special treatment. "Other inmates think it's about time that happened and are laughing at him.' Advertisement Most read in The Sun Huntley is serving his sentence in the Category A nick alongside terrorists and killers including ex-cop A Prison Service spokesman said: 'We can't comment on individuals.' 3 Huntley's victims Jessica Chapman, left, and Holly Wells Credit: Rex


The Sun
4 days ago
- The Sun
Evil Ian Huntley mercilessly mocked by fellow lags as he's forced to move cells after sick victim taunts
DOUBLE child killer Ian Huntley is being taunted in jail over his red Manchester United-style top being seized by warders — with fellow lags chanting: 'Huntley, Huntley, where's your shirt?' Guards turned over the fiend's cell after we revealed that he was wearing the shirt with a No10 on the back, an apparent sick reference to his victims' ages. 3 Best pals Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were wearing Man United tops in the last-known picture of them taken on the day Huntley lured them to his home and killed them. Jail staff also took framed photos of Huntley, 51, and his ex Maxine Carr, 48, who gave him a bogus alibi after the murders in Soham, Cambs, in August, 2002. As further punishment the killer — who is serving at least 40 years — was moved to a cell in the middle of a landing where he is more exposed to other inmates at high-security HMP Frankland, Co Durham. A source said: 'He's no longer in a cell beside a guards' office at the end of a corridor so inmates can now shout up at his window as they pass. 'They've given him merry hell since the story, yelling, 'Huntley where's your shirt?' in football chant style. "They're shouting insults and calling him 'sicko' and stuff. They've also mocked him about losing the Carr pictures. Huntley's livid. He's been going up the wall. 'The story's made the prison bosses realise that they have to treat him the same as everyone else and not give him special treatment. "Other inmates think it's about time that happened and are laughing at him.' Huntley is serving his sentence in the Category A nick alongside terrorists and killers including ex-cop Wayne Couzens and Levi Bellfield. A Prison Service spokesman said: 'We can't comment on individuals.' 3


The Sun
21-07-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Brutal El Salvador prisons would see sickos like Ian Huntley in actual CAGES – here's how it solves Keir's broken system
SO how angry were you when you learned that the sadistic child killer Ian Huntley is swanning around jail dressed in a football top like that worn by the two little girls he smothered to death? Because I confess I was close to loading up a sock with some snooker balls and making my way down to HMP Frankland to, er, offer him a quick frame. 7 7 What a vile conniving monster the murderer of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman continues to be. But as we no longer subject even our cruellest killers to the death penalty we have to endure their constant presence. And this means giving them everything from basic food and shelter to more generous treats such as PlayStations and female prison officers to roger. Now we must add a free pass to mock the families of those whose lives they wiped out. Well if Nigel Farage becomes PM such soft touch incarceration and belligerent behaviour could be a thing of the past. Reform UK 's no-nonsense leader plans to send beasts like Huntley to the kind of gruesome jails where lags do not even wear T-shirts. His big idea to curb Britain's prison crisis is to strike deals with foreign nations to house the criminals we no longer have room for. And one such destination would be El Salvador, the crime -ridden Central American nation, where his pal, Donald Trump, has already been shipping his undesirables. El Savador's notorious mega prisons hold such a fascination that it is impossible to turn on Channel 5 without finding at least one programme dedicated to their brutality. Conditions are the stuff of nightmares, with murderers, rapists and psychopaths crammed into actual CAGES. Evil Soham murderer Ian Huntley sparks fury with vile taunt to his ten-year-old victims behind bar Illuminated day and night by deliberately harsh artificial lights, inmates — mostly gang members plastered in tattoos — face a constant threat of violence. Even Beelzebub would find the 40,000 capacity Terrorism Confinement Center a little extreme. Known as Cecot, it jams up to 80 lags into each cell for 23.5 hours a day on metal bunk beds with no mattresses. There are no books, cards, TV, or letters from home for the inmates, who are also forbidden from having visitors. Once you're in, you might as well cease to exist. And many literally do. Around 80 prisoners are killed each year. This is proper hard time. Of course Nigel's headline-grabbing ruse is like many of his grand plans — sketched out on the back of a fag packet after a few pints of mild in a seaside town boozer. Another bit of red meat to chuck at an increasingly fed-up electorate who just cannot see any of those cretins in the Labour or Tory parties making any difference. But where Nigel leads, our more established politicians follow. Former human rights lawyer Keir Starmer knows he is guaranteed to be toast in 2029 if he doesn't listen carefully to what Reform is saying. And he should pay particularly close attention to this idea with our nicks now 'dangerously full', according to his own prisons minister, James Timpson. Keir dropped the ball early on how to fix this by letting out a whole host of swaggering scumbags — only for some of them to immediately offend again. The former Chief Prosecutor has sent thousands of people to prison but now simply cannot be trusted to properly deal with criminals. Brits are fed up living in increasingly crime-plagued towns and cities, where stabbings, burglaries — and worse — are a daily occurrence. As a Sun On Sunday poll revealed at the weekend, half of us think Britain has become a 'lawless country'. Sir Keir's bed-wetting North London chums might wince at the 'barbaric' idea of sending our bad apples to some godforsaken foreign hellhole but he can be damn sure most voters won't. After all, this is a country where the majority of people, when polled, agree with bringing back the death penalty. That's never going to happen but shipping the worst animals in our society off to El Salvador is certainly an attractive alternative — and one hell of a deterrent. And if Sir Keir is worried about the ramifications of stealing an idea off someone else, he can relax. Our justice system is now so broken thieves get away scot-free. HOOKED ON PoW DRAMA 7 I ALWAYS feel nervous when a book I love is adapted for film or TV. So it was with some trepidation that I tuned in to watch The Narrow Road To The Deep North on BBC1 on Sunday night. Australian Richard Flanagan's 2013 novel – inspired by his dad's ordeal on the Burma Death Railway in WW2 – is one of the best things I've ever read. It literally took my breath away with its heartbreaking depiction of life as a Japanese POW in the sweltering jungles of Thailand. So I was pleased to learn that the Jacob Elordi -fronted drama does not disappoint, beautifully capturing both the brutality of Japanese officers and the tender love story of its central characters. With all episodes now on iPlayer, it's the only thing I'll be watching this week. CYCLING HELMET 7 I OFTEN cycle to and from work so feel duty-bound to defend my fellow cyclists from the boring complaints of those angry drivers who think we're all just in their bloody way. And then I see something like this at my local Sainburys and all solidarity goes out the (car) window. I mean what kind of selfish bastard does such a thing? GAME, SET AND MATCH TO AI MIA THE impossibly beautiful Mia Zelu certainly captured the world's attention as she posted her Wimbledon antics all over social media. There she was looking all cute in the bleachers and posing with a glass of the ubiquitous Pimms. What a lucky lass, snaring a scarce ticket to this glorious event – so thought her followers, over 40,000 of whom liked her Instagram pictures. Only one problem, it was all a load of cobblers. 'Mia' doesn't exist and is simply an AI 'storyteller'. Game, set and match to the robots! SHOULD DU BEKE GO TOO? 7 BBC loyalists are apparently engaged in a fight to save their hapless director-general Tim Davie as he stumbles from one crisis to another. It's not hard to understand why they want to ensure his survival – they know he will always save THEM. Because that's the thing about Tim's BBC – when the s**t hits the proverbial, it's only the badly behaved stars who get the boot (eventually), never those who enabled them. That said, I'm somewhat confused as to why John Torode was sacked while the ridiculous Anton Du Beke is still on the BBC. In 2009 Anton – real name Tony Beke – famously said his dance partner Laila Rouass – an actress of Indian and Moroccan heritage – looked like a P***, causing her to storm out. Arguably a more serious racist incident than quoting a pop song or joshing with someone who took no offence. Yet he's still mincing about on primetime BBC One while the show's official website breathlessly describes him as 'part of the Strictly furniture'. CHEAT'S CODE 7 POOR old Andy Byron may well be heading to the divorce courts after canoodling his not-so-secret lover at that Coldplay gig. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but I have a simple tactic that he'll be kicking himself for not employing on that fateful night. One that would have made him a hero rather than the world's most ridiculed man. And that is . . . when the camera panned to him and his mistress he should have simply gripped her even tighter, pulled her back and mouthed theatrically 'Stop! Don't jump!'


The Independent
21-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
How realistic is Nigel Farage's promise to cut crime in half?
N igel Farage claims that he has a plan to 'cut crime in half, take back control of our streets, [and] take back control of our courts and prisons '. The Reform leader says that 'we are facing nothing short of societal collapse', wants to build emergency 'Nightingale prisons ' on Ministry of Defence land, and has semi-promised to send convicted murderer Ian Huntley to El Salvador (admittedly a bit of a vote winner). It's an ambitious package, but there are questions about its viability... Is Britain facing societal collapse? No. If it was, you wouldn't get back alive from the pub or be able to get petrol or bread. Is crime up? On some measures and in some places, against certain given periods of time, it is up; on other measures, it's down. The variations in the way crime is measured are one issue – it's risky to go by the number of crimes recorded by the police, because people will sometimes not bother to report them, especially the less serious matters, so statisticians treat these figures with caution. The other way of measuring crime rates, which should also be adjusted for changes in population, is by conducting surveys among the public – but not everything is included. Somewhat confusingly, Farage seems to think that the survey data is unreliable because people have given up telling the police about, for example, thefts that might affect their insurance. That doesn't make sense. Types of crime also necessarily change over time; there are very few thefts of car radios or bank blags these days, but there's massively more cybercrime and fraud. Even in London, described by Farage as 'lawless', not all crime is up; there's a long-term trend down in murder and rape, for example, and there are still plenty of tourists. So fact-checking any politician on the subject of crime is virtually impossible. All such claims need to be treated with the utmost care. What about the costings? Farage presented a 'costings sheet' that purports to show that the whole massive package – recruiting 30,000 more police, opening new 'custody suites', restoring magistrates' court operations, building prisons, paying rent for offenders deported to prisons in El Salvador or Estonia, and the rest – would come to £17.4bn over a five-year parliament: a mere £3.48bn per annum. The costings seem to be optimistic, based on some arbitrary assumptions such as always being able to cut costs to a minimum. They are not independently audited by, say, the Institute for Fiscal Studies – and if it were really all so cheap to do, the Tories and Labour would surely have taken the opportunity to transform the crime scene and turn Britain into a paradise long ago. As for funding even the admitted £17.4bn, there are no specific named savings elsewhere, just some recycled claims about the (contested) cost of net zero and the supposed economic miracle wrought in Argentina by President Milei. Probably not enough to calm the bond markets under a Farage government. Is the UK 'close to civil disobedience on a vast scale'? So Farage claims. His critics say that his 'I predict a riot' remarks tend to have a self-fulfilling quality to them, as seen in the 'Farage riots' in Southport and elsewhere a year ago. Essex Police, who are currently dealing with violent unrest in Epping – perpetrated by 'a few bad eggs', as Farage terms it – won't thank him for his comments. And the anecdotes? Uncheckable, just as Enoch Powell's were in the infamous 'rivers of blood' speech in 1968. We may never know whether, for example, a former army sergeant was denied a job as a police officer because the force was 'having trouble with its quotas' or for some other reason. Reform's tactics are also reminiscent of the Trump playbook, demonstrating an obsession with incarceration and policing by fear. If Farage could build a British Alligator Alcatraz on a disused RAF base in Suffolk, he probably would. But using grass snakes, presumably. Can Farage cut crime in half in five years? It feels implausible. If he could, then presumably he could abolish crime altogether if he were given a decade in office. The 'zero tolerance' approach sounds fine, but if the pledge that every shoplifting offence, every whiff of a spliff, and every trackable mobile phone theft has to be investigated is taken literally – as he seems to intend – then even 30,000 more officers wouldn't be sufficient, and the expanded court and prison system would collapse. Much the same goes for 'saturation' levels of policing deployed on stop-and-search exercises in high-knife-crime areas. Sending many more people to jail is also very costly, but, more to the point, the recent Gauke report explains why prison doesn't work and just makes everything worse. To get crime down under Reform UK, we'd need to turn the UK into a police state.