{"id":3823,"date":"2026-02-27T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:26:59","slug":"the-prison-attacker-of-ian-huntley-has-been-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3823","title":{"rendered":"The prison attacker of Ian Huntley has been named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Triple murderer suspected of attacking Ian Huntley in prison attack has been named\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full object-cover rounded-md\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 620 500'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAACEN3D\/AAAAL0lEQVR42mP4z8DAwMiAARgZGJhY+P\/\/PwMDAwPDfwYGBgaGhgYGhgYGAAD9Hwlr5xRngAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.joe.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Nthumbnail-9-2.png?height=576&amp;width=1024\"\/><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>He is serving a life sentence<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>For the first time, the suspected prison attacker of Ian Huntley has been named and pictured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The 52-year-old murderer was left fighting for his life after being attacked at around 9am on Thursday, at HMP Frankland in County Durham.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Huntley was air-lifted to hospital from his prison wing after being \u201cbludgeoned\u201d and found \u201clying in a pool of his own blood\u201d, according to The Sun sources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Attacker of Huntley has been named as Anthony Russell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full flex flex-col items-center max-w-[659px] 970:max-w-[630px] my-5\">\n<div class=\"w-[345px] tablet:w-[618px]\"><img alt=\"Article image\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"618\" height=\"329\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto object-contain rounded-[10px]\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.joe.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-27-154655.png\"\/><img alt=\"Logo Camera in article\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"11\" height=\"9\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"absolute w-[11px] h-[9px] bottom-[11px] right-[11px] object-conatin tablet:hidden\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joe.co.uk\/_next\/static\/media\/camera.5e27b748.png\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>He is a triple killer who once raped a pregnant woman, according to multiple prison sources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Russell strangled 31-year-old Nicole McGregor to death before dumping her body in woodland near Leamington Spa, and in October 2020 he also murdered Julie Williams, 58, and her son David, 32, during a week-long crime spree.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>He was eventually the subject of a national manhunt and fled Leamington Spa by stealing a car from a pensioner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201c&#8217;Huntley was working in waste management with other prisoners from Wing A, the segregated wing for prisoners who can&#8217;t be in the normal jail population for their own protection\u201d, a prison source told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cThe other prisoner got a metal bar from the waste metal crates and smashed Huntley three times in the head with it. It was a very, very serious injury, having been struck on the skull like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Before Russell swung at Huntley with the metal pole, it is believed a fight broke out between the two prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>He reportedly hit him with such force that part of the bar was lodged inside of him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Currently, Huntley is serving a life sentence for murdering Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in 2002.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Officers initially feared that Huntley had died due to the extent of his injuries amid concerns he was not breathing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Paramedics put him in a medically induced coma and transported him to hospital, and he is said to remain there in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#prison #attacker #Ian #Huntley #named<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is serving a life sentence For the first time, the suspected prison attacker of Ian Huntley has been named and pictured. The 52-year-old murderer was left fighting for his life after being attacked at around 9am on Thursday, at HMP Frankland in County Durham. Huntley was air-lifted to hospital from his prison wing after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3744,3745,3666,1714,3735,1089,2847],"class_list":{"0":"post-3823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-anthony-russell","9":"tag-attacker","10":"tag-huntley","11":"tag-ian","12":"tag-ian-huntley","13":"tag-named","14":"tag-prison"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}