A MURDERER from Coventry is suspected of attacking notorious child-killer Ian Huntley in prison.
Anthony Russell, formerly of Riley Square in Coventry, allegedly attacked Soham double murderer Huntley with a makeshift weapon at HMP Frankland – a high security prison in County Durham – according to reports by the BBC and the Daily Mail.
Russell, 43, is serving a whole life-term for murdering Julie Williams, her son David Williams and Nicole McGregor in the space of seven days in October 2020.
Huntley, 52, who killed 10-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, suffered significant head trauma from his injuries and was taken to hospital in a serious condition.
Durham Constabulary said a male prisoner in his mid-40s suspected of carrying out the attack was ‘in detention’, and that detectives investigating the attack were liaising with staff at the prison.
On October 23, 2020, Julie Williams, 58, phoned police to report her son David Williams, 31, had not been seen for two days.
Police then found her dead on the living room floor, having been violently attacked by Russell earlier in the day.
Russell fled Coventry on October 26, and later that day officers raided his home in Riley Square where they found David’s body hidden under a bed.
The body of Russell’s third murder victim, Nicole McGregor, 31,was found in woodland on Newbold Comyn in Leamington a few days later. He was also found guilty of her rape.
A police investigation established how Russell had killed David first, and then his mother because she knew what had happened and would tell the police.
In the summer of 2002, Huntley lured Holly and Jessica back to his home in Soham in Cambridgeshire, and killed them. Their bodies were found in a ditch in Suffolk nearly a fortnight after they disappeared.
Huntley was subsequently convicted and sentenced to a minimum of 40 years for the murders.
His girlfriend Maxine Carr was also jailed in 2003 after being found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice for giving him a false alibi. She has since been released.
