Good riddance Huntley

[Bertiebiscuit]

So the child murderer Ian Huntley is dead, finally. Pity it took so long, i hope he died in pain and terror, and a medal to whoever did it. Karma sometimes works.

I wonder if the relatives of the murderer's other victims are having a good day? It has probably brought a lot of trauma back for them. Same for the loved ones of Holly and Jessica.

I don’t pretend to know how anyone is feeling but I know how I feel and that many groups of my friends and family feel the same.

Well maybe you should stop and think about the following before posting such idiotic statements:

The medical and prison staff who will no doubt have suffered psychological harm, possible PTSD after witnessing the events.

The families of both his killers victims and Holly and Jessica's families. I doubt they're all throwing parties and cracking open the champagne at the news. I can only imagine, they'll be partly reliving the trauma of it being all over the news.

All the people celebrating his murder, seem to have forgotten like all murders, this one has victim's. And in this case its not Huntley, but the prison and medical staff who will have witnessed and had to deal with the aftermath.

We've no idea what the impact of this will have them. Many might get PTSD. Some will have families, children who will be further impacted by this.

This isn't just a crime where Huntley was impacted and no one else. By celebrating and gloating about him being murdered shows absolutely no sympathy or concern for those impacted.

Huntleys crimes were henious, no one is arguing about it but I doubt even Holly's or Jessica's families are celebrating this. It must be incredibly traumatic for them to see his face plastered all over the media. Its also doubly traumatic for the families of his killers victim's too see people praising him and saying he deserves a medal.

The best thing would have been for Huntley to have been locked up forever and forgotten about. So that families didn't have to see his face in the media. And other people didn't need to suffer from seeing a murder.

@Bellaunionyou have no idea how the families are feeling or how the staff are feeling. So let’s not pretend any of us know that unless we are the direct people involved.

I think that's exactly what I said. None of us know how they feel so perhaps why people shouldn't be gloating that it's a great day or celebrating him being killed by a triple murderer.

No one should be thinking a raping murderer should be given a medal. Huntley was brain damaged as soon as he was struck in the head, immediately. The bar was lodged in his brain, he didn’t know what happened to him , didn’t see it coming, and won’t have felt it. He had already tried to kill himself.

the man was basically given a painless swift exit. The fact he was in an induced coma on life support for a week doesn’t change it, the doctors just had to confirm there was no brain life, and then the machines were switched off. No pain. No awareness.

@ThelankyoneI've not said a thing about his murderer - I wouldn’t thank him either let alone a medal.
In a way it’s perfect as another scumbag gets to stay in prison longer keeping the public safer.
Am just glad Huntley is dead.

If this had happened the year or 2 after being imprisoned then I’d potentially agree with you more but it’s been a long time and he’s been attacked before. Now it’s the end.

and @Bellaunionyour posts are just a whole load of handwringing whataboutery.

Handwringing how exactly? By commenting that prisons should be safe for those that work in them? By expressing concern for those that witnessed the attacks? For having sympathy for the families who are having to see pictures of Huntley plastered all over the media?

If those things don't bother you then perhaps you need to take a look at yourself.

who will have witnessed if we're to be believed his head being split in two

There is going to be some hyperbole involved. Having worked in major trauma, if his head was literally split in two he would never have made it to hospital. Brainstem and all that.

I’m going to guess the attack had nothing to do with morals and justice and more about drug money or an ongoing feud.

Poppycock. Huntley has had a kill order on him since the moment he entered prison.

He’s been attacked twice previously and he’s been there for twenty three years, so not a hugely effective one.

What’s a ‘kill order’?

Oh come on 🙄

Exactly! He was a less famous murderer - both equally as evil as each other.

That has nothing to do with morals or justice though, it has to do with notoriety.

Given that Anthony Russell was a child killer in his own right, plus a rapist, murdered a pregnant woman as well as the mother of the other child he murdered I think it’s safe to assume that morals isn’t something he aspires to.

Perhaps, but he’s been there an awfully long time with no success. I’m struggling to see how you can assume a convicted rapist and murderer would be overly fussed by a child killer. Both are awful crimes and the guy who murdered Huntley hardly has the moral high ground.

Drugs in prison however are rife.

Whilst I have no idea how the families feel, I would expect they’ll be feeling some relief knowing he’ll never get out of prison. Whilst he got a long sentence, he would likely have experienced freedom forwards the end of his life, now he won’t.

Im going to guess there’s more chance they feel relief and closure.

The only logic I can see is that he wanted to “glory” of killing him. Certainly brought his name into the limelight.

Kevin Wells has written about getting his form of 'closure' from the existing legal system. He believes in choosing justice over vengeance, a focus on the victims (and their families) rather than on Huntley himself, and he has persistently refused to be drawn on the topic of capital punishment. Justice allowed him to draw a line and focus on his daughter and his family. I don't imagine he's popping the champagne cork to see his daughter's killer in the headlines again.

His response to Holly's murder has been remarkably composed and dignified throughout. I don't think we should presume to know how the families feel. And indeed it's very likely that they all feel very differently about this news, even from one another.

That’s really unlikely - he got forty years before he could be considered for parole.

It’s not impossible he’d live until his 90s but unlikely - being considered for parole doesn’t mean it’s granted and cynically releasing Huntley is a PR disaster for any political party, even though it isn’t supposed to be part of the judicial system.

I feel really sad to see Holly and Jessica's innocent faces splashed all over the media....again. I feel heart wrenching pity for their families for the mixed emotions they must be feeling....again!

I feel sorry for the families of Anthony Russells victims, for having to read the various praise, medals, drinks etc that he has been commended with in media comments, as well as the kudos he will receive in jail. He doesn't deserve any kind of hero status.

I don't feel celebratory. I just feel really sad.

The parent might want / need to know. They might not. They are the ones I feel sorry for, all the reporting has brought up the news / doc footage of the girls' disappearance.

I will be sending positive thoughts to Sharon and Leslie Chapman and Kevin and Nicola Wells and their families.

I hope the press leave the residents of Soham alone too.