Will Huntley starve himself to death?
SOHAM killer Ian Huntley is threatening to starve himself to death because he is bored, according to a national newspaper. Huntley, began a hunger strike last Tuesday, and says he is prepared to die unless his latest demands are met. Huntley, 33, is fed
SOHAM killer Ian Huntley is threatening to starve himself to death because he is bored, according to a national newspaper.
Huntley, began a hunger strike last Tuesday, and says he is prepared to die unless his latest demands are met.
Huntley, 33, is fed up with being on the medical wing at Wakefield Prison and wants to be moved.
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Huntley is serving a minimum of 40 years for the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. He is just three and a half years into the jail term and will be 70 before he can even apply for parole.
A Home Office source confirmed: "He is saying he is on hunger strike and that he is serious this time. He has not had any food for five days now. Whether he can last remains to be seen."
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It is Huntley's second hunger strike, and the latest in a series of attempts to take his own life.
He has tried to commit suicide three times, most recently in September last year by taking an overdose of antidepressants.
