Sick Huntley ‘sorry’ slur
AFTER 14 YEARS OF TORMENT FOR PARENTS, SICK HUNTLEY ‘APOLOGY’
CHILD killer Ian Huntley wants to apologise to the parents of his schoolgirl victims.
Fourteen years after murdering Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, the Soham monster confessed to a prison inmate: “I lost control of my mind. I would like to explain to them what I did. I wish I hadn’t done it.”
Yet the twisted former school caretaker is still so obsessed by his crime he parades around jail in a replica Manchester United jersey similar to those 10-year-olds Holly and Jessica wore when he killed them.
And he’s even ignored a request from the governor to stop wearing the shirt which has enraged fellow prisoners.
A source, who was on the same wing as Huntley, 42, for three years and spoke to him every day, says the murderer also longs to apologise to his former lover Maxine Carr.
She was jailed for helping him cover up the 2002 killings in Soham, Cambs. He told the ex-inmate he was sorry for “putting her through this hell”.
Huntley, jailed for a minimum of 40 years, has never shown remorse and denied the murders at his trial.
He claimed he “accidentally” killed Holly and “unintentionally” suffocated Jessica. The two girls had gone for a walk after a family barbecue that took them past his home.
The former inmate, who does not want to be named, revealed: “Huntley told me, ‘I’m genuinely sorry for what I’ve done. I wasn’t in control. I didn’t know what I was doing’.
“He said, ‘If I was given the opportunity to apologise and explain what I did to their parents I would. I now realise what I did’.”
HAUNTING
Huntley’s sickening, self- serving admissions at Category A HMP Frankland in Durham can be revealed just days after the 14th anniversary of the double murder which horrified Britain.
The last picture of best friends Holly and Jessica in their red Man Utd football shirts became a haunting symbol of Huntley’s evil.
The snap was taken by Holly’s mum at the barbecue when the girls had around an hour and a half left to live.
The matching tops – with United star David’s Beckham’s name and his number 7 on the back – were stripped from the girls’ bodies and found burned and dumped in a bin.
Their soccer idol led a high profile appeal while the pair were still missing. Their bodies were found six miles from Soham 13 days later. They had been dumped in a ditch near RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.
It later emerged the youngsters had stopped to speak to Huntley – who was living with their teaching assistant Carr – outside the house the couple shared. He invited them in and murdered them.
Huntley was to claim in court that Holly suffered a nose bleed and fell into a bath, banging her head and drowning. He said Jessica screamed so he put his hand on her mouth until she stopped.
Their bodies were so decomposed 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.
Carr, now 38, served 21 months for perverting the course of justice. She now lives under a new identity.
The ex-inmate’s revelations come in stark contrast to the account by Huntley’s brother Wayne in his 2012 book. He said Huntley had never shown a shred of remorse over the killings.
And a leaked 2005 report by prison psychiatrists arrived at the same grim conclusion.
But his sudden desire to apologise to Holly’s parents, Kevin and Nicola, and Jessica’s mum and dad, Sharon and Les, hasn’t stopped him wandering around the jail in his Man Utd shirt. He says he wears it because he is a Red Devils supporter. But it has sponsor Vodafone’s name printed on the front, just like the girl’s shirts from that era.
Our source said: “I couldn’t believe it when I first saw him wearing it. It’s an insult to their memory. He knows how offensive people find it and receives constant abuse whenever he wears it, but he just carries on. It’s like he’s trying to remind people of exactly what he’s done. He’ll often wear it in the morning and then change to the blue away shirt from the same year in the afternoon.
“The prison governor has asked him to remove it, but there is nothing the authorities can do to stop him as apparently he isn’t breaking any rules.
“He says he’s supported Man United all his life and nobody is going to change it. He said he would never back down from wearing them.
“He’s still a sick man and even though he says he’s sorry he doesn’t deserve anybody’s sympathy. He’s a master of manipulation.”
In line with the wishes of Holly and Jessica’s parents, the Sunday Mirror is not using any pictures of their children.