EVIL KILLER HUNTLEY: I WANT TO BE A WOMAN
Fiend plans sex swap on taxpayer
CHILD killer Ian Huntley wants a sex change so that he can move to a women’s jail.
The Soham murderer, who killed best friends Jessica and Holly, thinks it will be cushier than his current digs at tough HMP Frankland.
CHILD killer Ian Huntley wants a sex change at taxpayers’ expense so he can spend the rest of his life in a women’s prison.
The vile Soham murderer, who killed 10-year-olds Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, believes it will be cushier than his current jail, tough HMP Frankland.
He has told fellow lags he will start wearing women’s clothes, underwear and make-up to convince doctors he harbours desires to change sex.
If given the go-ahead, the £100,000 operation will be paid for by the taxpayer on the NHS.
The double killer is planning to join a programme of treatment which will begin to prepare him for his new life as a woman.
But offenders must first pass rigorous psychological tests to show they genuinely want to change sex and are not just looking for special treatment.
Huntley is yet to make a formal request to the governor of Frankland Prison, a category A jail in County Durham.
But the Daily Star Sunday has learned that he has already discussed his plans with other close inmates – including his new best friend, Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.
One inmate told this newspaper that Huntley is desperate to be moved from the all-male prison after facing years of death threats and assaults.
He has already survived one murder attempt in which he had his throat slashed by armed robber Damien Fowkes in 2010.
A former prisoner said: “Huntley and Sutcliffe are always in and out of each other’s cells. They are both hated by the majority of the inmates because they have shown no remorse for what they’ve done.
“There are a lot of bad people in Frankland Prison but Huntley is one of the worst.
“He knows he’s a marked man while he’s in Frankland and he believes his only hope of a cushy life is to become a woman.”
Huntley was given a double life sentence, with a minimum term of 40 years, for the murders of Jessica and Holly in 2002.
The last picture of the pair in their Manchester United football shirts became a haunting symbol of Huntley’s evil.
The snap was taken by Holly’s mum at a barbecue just an hour before they were killed.
The matching tops were stripped from the girls’ bodies and found burned and dumped in a bin.
It later emerged the pals had stopped to speak to school caretaker Huntley outside the house he shared with partner Maxine Carr.
He invited them in and murdered them.
Their bodies were found dumped in a ditch six miles from the Cambridgeshire town 13 days later.
It was impossible for police to prove how they died.
But Huntley was found guilty of the murders after a harrowing sixweek trial at the Old Bailey.
A government spokesman said: “Prisoners receive the same NHS service as the public.
“Any person applying to be on the transgender pathway is assessed by a range of healthcare professionals, regardless of whether they are in prison or not.”