Ian Huntley’s daughter has said her evil father ‘isn’t worth a funeral’ and that his ashes should be ‘flushed down the toilet’ following the child killer’s death yesterday.
Huntley, 52, died in hospital on Saturday morning, Durham Constabulary said, following an attack by a fellow inmate at the maximum security HMP Frankland on Thursday, February 26. He was attacked with a metal pole and suffered horrific injuries that had reportedly left him blind and in a vegetative state.
According to The Sun, his life support was switched off on Friday following consultation with his mother, who was reportedly at his bedside.
The Mirror reports that his 27-year-old daughter Samantha Bryan, from Cleethorpes, has said that not only should Huntley’s ashes be flushed “down the toilet”, but he doesn’t deserve a grave and will ‘burn in hell’.
She told The Sun: “He shouldn’t have the dignity of a funeral and grave. I will not be going. A funeral is pointless for a man like him. Funerals are supposed to be about celebrating someone’s life and there’s nothing about him to celebrate. It takes up people’s valuable time and he’s not worth it.
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“There’s no point having a funeral as he’ll burn in hell. There is no place for him in heaven. The devil is waiting.” Ms Bryan added that she didn’t want a grave for Huntley as she believed “freaks or weirdos” could show him “twisted respect”.
Samantha, who only discovered who her father was when researching crime rates for a school project, went on: “I don’t want there to ever be any possibility of freaks or weirdos going to a resting place or memorial, to show him some kind of twisted respect. The thought of that is disgusting. For the sake of what he’s done I want people to forget him.” Her attitude towards the killer is in line with the opinion shared by the rest of Soham, who believe the killer’s “not worth their breath or time”.
Huntley murdered 10-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman – pupils at the school where he was a caretaker – in 2002. They vanished after going for a walk during a family barbecue and were lured into his home by him telling them his partner, Maxine Carr, who was a teaching assistant at their school, was inside.
She was in fact back in Grimsby at the time, and gave Huntley a False alibi when police arrested him. Grimsby Telegraph reader, Andrew Marshall, phoned the Grimsby Telegraph newsroom after seeing him being interviewed on TV in Cambridgeshire. He suggested the reporters search the newspaper archives for court appearances on Huntley.
He had read about Huntley in the Grimsby Telegraph several years prior in relation to an alleged rape that he had committed in the town, and also knew him as a former passenger in his taxi in Immingham. Huntley had lived in both Immingham and Grimsby, where he had a reputation for chatting up underage girls and domestic violence.
He was charged with rape in Gas Alley, Grimsby in 1998. But the proceedings in court were discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service.
Humberside Police had investigated Huntley on several allegations between 1995 and 1999, including rape, one of indecent assault, and four allegations of unlawful sexual intercourse with underage girls.
Following Andrew Marshall’s call to the Grimsby Telegraph newsroom our reporter alerted Humberside Police. Detectives in Cambridgeshire arrested Huntley shortly after the tip-off.
The college where Huntley worked was searched. Detectives found the remains of the girls’ Manchester United shirts which they had been wearing the day they disappeared. One of the mums had taken a photograph of the friends before they went off on a walk through the village together.
In a statement released on Saturday morning, the Ministry of Justice said the murders remain “one of the most shocking and devastating cases in our nation’s history”.
Durham Constabulary confirmed his death and said: “Ian Huntley, 52, was taken to hospital with serious injuries following an incident in the workshop on the morning of Thursday, February 26.
“A police investigation into the circumstances of the incident is ongoing. A file is being prepared for the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration for charges.”
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