The death of the Soham murderer Ian Huntley is a focus for Sunday’s papers, with the Sunday Mirror headlining the news as the “death of a monster”. The convicted killer has died 10 days after he was attacked in prison, Sunday Mirror reports, quoting a former guard, who said “no one will shed any tears”. The former school caretaker had been serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for murdering best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002.
Sunday People headlines with a “special place in hell” for Ian Huntley who has “finally died”, the paper reports, after an attack in prison. Above an image of the child murderer is a US Air Force bomber at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, which the paper describes as capable of delivering 34 tons of explosives.
Similarly, the Sunday Telegraph leads with former UK prime minister Tony Blair rebuking Starmer over his failure to back “Trump’s war”. Blair, who supported the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, told a “private luncheon” on Friday that Sir Keir should have done more to support the US from the “very beginning of the escalating conflict”, the paper reports.
A former Formula One engineer has urged UK defence chiefs to “harness the innovative skills within motor racing to arm Britain for a potential conflict with Russia”, the Sunday Express reports. Mark Mathieson, who once worked at Mercedes and McLaren, believes the answers to “improving slow, ineffective” processes “used by the Ministry of Defence” can be found in the sport.
