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All you need to know as Ian Huntley’s daughter speaks after killer attacked
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Soham child killer Ian Huntley was left fighting for his life after being brutally attacked in prison, and his daughter Samantha Bryan has now broken her silence
Everything you need to know as Ian Huntley’s daughter breaks her silence after the Soham child killer was left fighting for his life.
- Ian Huntley’s daughter has broken her silence after the Soham killer was brutally attacked in prison, saying she was “glad” to learn he was fighting for his life.
- Samantha Bryan, 27, revealed she felt “overwhelming relief” when told the ex-school caretaker had been smashed across the head with a metal pole. Huntley, 52, was given just a five per cent chance of survival and remains in critical condition.
- “I started crying because I thought he was dead – it was an overwhelming sense of relief,” Samantha told The Sun on Sunday. “Being his daughter has been a heavy burden.”
- The beautician from Cleethorpes only discovered Huntley was her father at age 14 during a school crime project. Her mum Katie, 45, fled Huntley’s brutality after becoming pregnant at 16.
- Katie said: “I think he got what he deserves. I hope he burns in hell.”
- This marks the third brutal attack on Huntley in prison – he previously had his throat cut in 2010 and faced another attempt in 2018. The prime suspect is Anthony Russell, 43, a whole-life prisoner who reportedly claimed “I’ve killed him” after the attack.
- Police are continuing their investigation into the assault on the killer of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both 10, in 2002.
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