Ian Huntley is serving a life sentence for the double murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham
Depraved child killer Ian Huntley wrote a chilling letter to his daughter after she requested to visit him behind bars.
The monster is serving time for the double murders of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in August 2002. The 10-year-old best friends vanished after popping out to buy sweets from the local leisure centre vending machine.
Over 400 officers joined the search to locate them in the peaceful town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
Huntley initially spoke to the media and even participated in the frantic hunt for the little girls. Unbeknownst to police, he had enticed them into his house by claiming his girlfriend Maxine Carr, who worked as a teaching assistant at their school, was indoors.
He killed the girls and then concealed their bodies in an irrigation ditch near the RAF base roughly 10 miles from their home, reports the Mirror.
Later that month, he was charged with two counts of murder and handed two life sentences with a minimum of 40 years. Samantha Bryan sought to visit her father at Frankland prison to try and obtain more information about the horrific murders.
However, he sent her a blunt letter stating: “Given the probable length of my future and your current motives I doubt there will be enough time for a significant shift in circumstances in order for us to ever meet”. Samantha, from Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire, criticised his response.
Speaking to The Sun on Sunday, she said: “He’s shown he’s a pitiful, twisted, manipulative coward. There’s so many other things I could call him. I feel contempt. His letter has left me with even more questions than I had before. He might be ill but I don’t know for sure given he’s written about the probable length of his future. I don’t know what that means. But surely if he is sick you’d want to give some answers – you’d have nothing left to lose. Or maybe he is referring to the length of his sentence.”
Samantha accidentally discovered that Huntley was her father when she was 14. Her mother Katie was only 15 when she had a relationship with Huntley, who was then 23.
Carr was also imprisoned for providing her killer boyfriend with a false alibi on the night of the murders.
She claimed she was at home on that tragic night, taking a bath while he spoke to friends at the front of the property, stating it was a “shame” that she had missed them in police and press interviews. It turned out that she had actually been at home in Grimsby, where the couple met, but she denied knowing anything about Huntley’s horrific crimes and insisted she thought she was protecting him from being framed.
After the investigation, the Bichard inquiry was established to examine how Huntley secured a position at a school despite being suspected of nine sexual offences, many involving underage girls. The headteacher, Howard Gilbert, hired the murderer in November 2001 – merely 10 months prior to the double murder – after police checks by Cambridgeshire constabulary cleared him.
However, during the 2004 inquiry, Mr Gilbert detailed how the vetting processes failed to recognise the threat Huntley presented to young girls.
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