Ian Huntley

it's those kids where you become aware of it as this thing but it's almost like the hidden code like if you knew who Freddy Krueger was that was you know as a child you were in you were already part of a secret group

yeah well the irony wasn't lost on me as a kid that I had the cover of Nightmare on Elm Street 3 as a poster in my bedroom as a child so I literally it's like me putting up a picture of Ian Huntley on my wall or something It's just weird.

But that's what happened.

I had a post from all this.

Well, I class a prison sentence as serving hard time.

And usually, say, for example, if it was in the UK, you're looking at the likes of HMP Wakefield, aren't you? You're looking at the likes of maybe, where was Ian Huntley? Franklins.

Yeah, places like that.

Belmarsh some of the really serious and

They really were.

The man who murdered them was Ian Huntley, and his girlfriend Maxine Carr provided him with a rock-solid alibi.

She told detectives they were in the bath together at the exact time the girls went missing.

An intimate, unverifiable alibi.

Now, actually, this has happened before for a case I covered for Redrum.

Um, I recently spoke about the murder of child killer Ian Huntley.

He murdered Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, and he was killed in prison by a man called Anthony Russell.

Now, when I covered Anthony's case and the three murders he committed of Julie Williams, her son David Williams, and Nicole McGregor, who was pregnant, I started by talking about how he'd just killed Ian Huntley.

I went on to speak about the cases he was involved in, who he'd murdered to end up in prison, and I had a fair few comments that were applauding him, suggesting that he should be freed because he killed such an awful human being as Ian Huntley.

But that's kind of wild, isn't it? Suggesting a murderer should go free because he murdered again.

Those comments wanting a man who murdered a pregnant woman, watching him out on the streets is honestly wild, so shortsighted.

So, so you can dispense with the tricky ones, Bamber, Letby, you don't execute them.

You, you execute people like Ian Huntley where you know they are guilty, if that's the way you wanna go.

And I, but I would predict that when we get to the end of the Ann Widdecombe trial, whatever happens, I'm not pre-judging it obviously, I predict that this will be a really big debate.

This will be, th- that will be a crime that reignites this debate.

And the man responsible for their murders, he'd been in Soham all along.

Ian Huntley knew his victims.

He worked at their school.

He had been helping the police in their searches, and had even appeared on the national news appealing for information on the whereabouts of the two missing girls.

Murderers are masters of deceit, public deceit and self-deceit.

They are great self-deniers.

As far as I'm concerned, um, I want Ian Huntley to rot in hell.

If I'd have known he was gonna do that to those two girls, I think I would have killed him.

I mean, it's only in extreme cases, if it's proven, like the, the guy from Southport, you know? People either...

Or, you know, uh, uh, Ian Huntley and all, all these kind of people, you know.

If it's proven be, you know, without doubt that someone has committed these kind of heinous crimes, then really I think some...

I mean, for example, Trump authorized a guy to be, uh, killed by firing squad, you know? I think sometimes, I mean, instead of keeping someone, you know, on death row for 30, 35 years, if it's proven beyond doubt that someone, without doubt that, you know, they've committed a really heinous crime, sometimes I think firing squad will make things much easier because then the death is final.

Belmarsh houses all kinds of prisoner, from shoplifter to terrorist, debt defaulter to paedophile.

Ian Huntley, Ronnie Biggs, Jeffrey Archer and Abu Hamza are all recent guests.

Some are here for a few days, some for life.

To the newcomer, it can seem like a vast, volatile institution full of unpredictable menace.