Ian Huntley Dies from Blunt Force Trauma After Brutal Prison Assault with Metal Spike

SOHAM fiend Ian Huntley died of “blunt head injury”, an inquiry has heard.

We exclusively revealed double-child killer Huntley had died last month after being in prison with a spiked metal bar.

An inquiry has opened into Huntley’s deathCredit: PA:Press Association Huntley was attacked with a 3ft spiked metal bar in HMP Frankland’s recycling workshopCredit: PA

Huntley, who was serving life for the 2002 murders of ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, aged 52.

The fiend died in the Royal Victoria Infirmary from a head injury following an attack days earlier, an inquest heard today.

We told how Huntley had been blinded in the alleged ambush at , in County Durham, and was unlikely to survive.

The monster was bludgeoned up to 15 times and had been in an induced coma since the suspected assault.

Two ambulances and an air ambulance were scrambled before Huntley was taken to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.

He was whisked in for surgery on his huge head wound and given a five per cent chance of survival.

A second round of surgery on his broken jaw followed amid repeated scans for brain activity.

Sources said was eventually switched off after tests showed he was in a vegetative state.

Following his death, daughter told The Sun on Sunday his ashes should be “flushed down the toilet”.

In a damning verdict on her father, Samantha, 27, said she was “glad” to hear the former school caretaker had suffered a

She said: “I started crying because I thought he was dead — it was an overwhelming sense of relief.

“Being his daughter has been a heavy burden. It felt like I could breathe again. I felt if he died, that burden died with him.

“It immediately had a very big impact on me. I got very emotional. There’s a special place in hell waiting for him.”

Anthony Russell, 43, has been charged with murdering Huntley at HMP Frankland.

He will attend Newcastle Crown Court on April 24 for a pre-trial preparation hearing.

will be held once criminal proceedings against his alleged killer are concluded.

Huntley’s demise comes almost 24 years after he murdered ten-year-old friends , Cambridgeshire.

The sickening crime, which unfolded in August 2002, horrified the nation.

His name will be forever remembered for who were last seen in matching Manchester United shirts.

Huntley was jailed for life with a minimum 40-year sentence following a harrowing Old Bailey trial in December 2003.

The monster was bludgeoned up to 15 times and had been in an induced coma since the assaultCredit: PA