{"id":87185,"date":"2026-03-07T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/soham-murderer-ian-huntley-dies-after-prison-attack-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:43:53","slug":"soham-murderer-ian-huntley-dies-after-prison-attack-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/soham-murderer-ian-huntley-dies-after-prison-attack-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Soham murderer Ian Huntley dies after prison attack | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Huntley, the former school caretaker who murdered two 10-year-old schoolgirls in Soham has died following an attack in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The <!--more--> 52-year-old suffered significant head trauma after being attacked with a makeshift weapon by another inmate at HMP Frankland on 26 February and had been on life support in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He had been serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for murdering best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Ministry of Justice said Huntley&#8217;s crime &#8220;remains one of the most shocking and devastating cases in our nation&#8217;s history, and our thoughts are with their families&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Huntley&#8217;s life support was switched off on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Soham #SohamMurders #IanHuntley #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Huntley, the former school caretaker who murdered two 10-year-old schoolgirls in Soham has died following an attack in prison. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}