Soham murderer Ian Huntley is suing the prison service after being attacked

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Soham murderer Ian Huntley is suing the prison service after being attacked by another inmate.

Soham murderer Huntley to sue the prison service
Huntley, who is serving a life sentence for killing schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, had his throat slashed with a razor blade in March and now claims the prison service failed in their duty of care towards him.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "Ian Huntley is bringing a claim against the Ministry of Justice following an assault by another prisoner. The claim is currently being vigorously defended."

The former school caretaker, who murdered the 10-year-old friends in Cambridgeshire in 2002, was left scarred by the attack at Frankland Prison, Co Durham.

Earlier this year, then justice secretary Jack Straw said the government had "absolutely no intention" of paying compensation to Huntley over the attack.

It has been reported that Huntley could claim nearly £100,000 in damages in a case that could cost tax payers more than £1 million in legal aid fees.

It's the second time Huntley has been attacked in jail. An inmate threw boiling water on him while he was in the health care wing of high security Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, in September 2005.

He also tried to commit suicide in prison on three occasions. He was moved to HMP Frankland, a Category A high security men's prison, in 2008. That year, HM Inspectorate of Prisons raised concerns about violence at the jail.
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Well, the prison service does have the duty to protect those that it detains.
All this trouble would have been saved if we had a death sentence for child murderers. I find it troubling that one evil man costs us so much, it doesn't seem like prison will make him suffer, punish him, or rehabilitate him.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
All this trouble would have been saved if we had a death sentence for child murderers.
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And where does it end? You open the gate, suddenly the bar gets lowered. Suddenly, with all the child murders gone the next thing becomes the worst thing so we execute them to. How soon until you, in your perfectly normal existence have your head on the block?

I have noticed there is a lot of pro-death penalty sentiment both around here and in society at large, but like all risque taboos people tend to hide behind implied language rather than having the guts to come out and say it; on that i congratulate you. We all know what needs to be done ;)
 
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hmm, I'd disagree, I personally think the courts should have the option of death penalty. It cannot and will not happen, we can't reintrodce one now, as european law disallows such practice, and we give our criminals the right to take our legal system to court in a european court when they don't like the 'home' court decision.
It is simply the way things are.
Personally, I do not want to see a fellow prisoner kill this man. If thats what you meant by implied language BunnyKillBot, they have no right to do so, and they are likely inside for a grevious crime anyway if they are being stored near this man.
If anyone is going to kill him, it should be a sentence from a court.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Well, the prison service does have the duty to protect those that it detains.
All this trouble would have been saved if we had a death sentence for child murderers. I find it troubling that one evil man costs us so much, it doesn't seem like prison will make him suffer, punish him, or rehabilitate him.
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I'm not certain that I'd describe having boiling water thrown over him or his throat slashed as not suffering or being punished although you could argue that it is tangenital to actually being in prison since neither are, as far as I'm aware, core to the prison's aims.

I'm somewhat disturbed by the idea that "All this trouble would have been saved if we had a death sentence for child murderers." - well perhaps it would have saved him being assaulted but then it appears that you're saying any actions done to him are his own fault now, as if two wrongs somehow make a right. You could extrapolate that to almost any crime - in prison for tax evasion? It's your fault if someone beats you into a bloody pulp for fun. It's also worth remembering that it is difficult for him to serve his sentence as intended (which may include punishment or rehabilitation) if he's frequently having to covalesce in the hospital wing.

While Ian Huntley is a despicable person for killing that doesn't excuse the prison service if they failed in their duty of care towards him. I've got no great time for him or his claims in general but one of the principles of a good justice system is that you extend it to all - not just the people you like but, almost especially, to the people you do not.
 
Frankland is a maximum security HMP that houses armed robbers, life tariff murderers, rapists and terrorists.

I know a fella who worked there before retiring and he said it was a tinder box for violence.

Given that, I can't understand why Huntley is allowed to mix with other prisoners although I suspect that would only be on the VP unit.
 
have a friend who works for the prison service and some of the stories you hear are horrendous, theres more violence and drugs inside the prisons than there is out of them criminals still running their business by phone from behind bars etc. for half these jokers is not s a sentence its a holiday.

prison is too lax these days ;(
 
Fellow jailbirds never knew which side of the killer they would see emerging from his cell every morning – the strutting cocky king of the wing or the self-pitying suicidal zombie. The source explained: "He has constant ups and downs. On a high he’ll walk the corridors, mocking other prisoners and acting the big man."

But other times they would see the shambling loner, feeling sorry for himself over not being eligible for parole until he’s 71 in 2042. According to the ex-inmate, Huntley loved watching TV and playing video games on consoles he bought with his wages.

They added: "Huntley rarely gets involved in group activity and never goes to the yard. He stands around by the kitchens, moaning he wants more food. He's only about 5ft2in but he's over 15st." Then in 2017, The Mirror broke the news that Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe had a chilling jail run-in with Huntley.
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5ft 2 and 15 stone and hanging around the kitchen moaning for food :cry:

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Ian Huntley now - 'skinny old man, switching personalities and prison attacks'

School caretaker Ian Huntley tricked Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman into his home before murdering them and dumping their bodies. He was sentenced to life behind bars
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Damn its harsh in there, after Huntley attacked a guard ..............

"The monster's special privileges were said to have been taken away after the attack, meaning he lost his £20-a-week painting job and was not allowed to buy fish and chip dinners."
 
Heart bleeds for poor old Ian.

Sutcliffe called Huntley a "child killing *******" in the face-to-face flare-up and told him to "**** off" during the altercation at their Category A jail. The astonishing clash was revealed by Sutcliffe's brother Carl, who said: "Peter thinks he’s a higher class of killer than Huntley, but a murderer is a murderer in my eyes."
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It's funny that however low you go people will try and make themselves feel better about doing terrible things by comparing themselves to people they think did even worse things. It's almost like a Monty Python sketch.
 
GreatAuk said:
Heart bleeds for poor old Ian.


It's funny that however low you go people will try and make themselves feel better about doing terrible things by comparing themselves to people they think did even worse things. It's almost like a Monty Python sketch.
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Sutcliffe and Huntley in a perverted version of the Yorkshire men sketch.

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Four Yorkshiremen- Monty Python

Four Yorkshiremen discuss "the bad old days" and how young people don't properly appreciate what their elders had to go through. Hilarious.
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Jail for life is nothing to celebrate.

The state pays out millions to keep a body locked up as a living warning and also a reminder that it's too incompetent to guarantee that the correct people are being deleted for specially naughty crimes.
 
It's still amazing to think that prisoners like this are allowed luxuries like playing videos games. Ok granted it's money they earned whilst working in the prison but on the other hand it feels like a great injustice that someone can go and murder kids and then spend the rest of their lives being fed, watching TV and playing video games without ever having to spend a penny on living expenses like the rest of the non murdering population have to.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
Frankland is a maximum security HMP that houses armed robbers, life tariff murderers, rapists and terrorists.

I know a fella who worked there before retiring and he said it was a tinder box for violence.

Given that, I can't understand why Huntley is allowed to mix with other prisoners although I suspect that would only be on the VP unit.
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In the summer months my dog training classes are in a field next door to HMP Frankland.

There are some eventful training sessions when the inmates decide to kick off. They can make a hell of a racket.
 
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