18-07-2025
Soham killer Ian Huntley 'makes vile jibe about his 10-year-old victims' by wearing number 10 Man United-style shirt similar to the ones the two little girls he murdered were wearing when he attacked them
Child killer Ian Huntley has sparked fury by reportedly wearing a number 10 Manchester United-style shirt in an apparent vile taunt about his ten-year-old victims.
The 51-year-old school caretaker murdered Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells at his home in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002, in a case that shocked Britain.
They were both wearing matching red United football tops when they went missing after leaving a family barbecue to buy sweets.
Huntley, who lured the girls into his house and murdered them before dumping their bodies in a ditch, is serving a life sentence at HMP Frankland, County Durham.
A source told The Sun: 'He's been seen strutting about in the shirt as if it's funny. It is vile.'
He was reportedly called a 'sick b****d' by fellow inmates for wearing the football top - but responded with a thumbs up.
It is thought Huntley ordered the red number 10 shirt from Sports Direct, despite prisoners being barred from wearing tops of the football teams they support.
The insider said: 'Huntley has made it as close to a Man U top as he can — and it is sick.'
'Everyone thinks he is doing it to satisfy his own sick mind, rather than for football reasons,' they added.
Huntley reportedly started wearing the shirt earlier this year and has been seen in it walking to the gym and health centre.
Inmates at HMP Frankland complained about the football-style shirt in May but nothing was done, according to The Sun's report.
It is understood that because it is not an actual football shirt, Huntley has not broken any prison rules by wearing it.
The move was criticised by Robert Jenrick who said Huntley should not be 'swanning around' in jail insulting the memory of his victims.
The Tory shadow justice secretary said it should be 'ripped off his back' by prison guards.
An image of both girls wearing matching Man Utd tops was one of the last haunting images of them before they went missing.
They were later discovered by police burned and dumped in a bin.
Despite being responsible for the murders, Huntley gave TV interviews and joined in searches while his then-girlfriend Maxine Carr gave him a false alibi.
Carr even showed off an end-of-term card the girls had sent her, covered in loving comments and kisses.
Huntley, meanwhile, repeatedly spoke of how he was the last person to see the girls before their apparent disappearance.
He also helped organised community events to help the search effort.
The truth was that Huntley had lured the girls into the home he shared with Carr, as they passed by.
He has never fully revealed what took place there, but within an hour both girls were dead.
Then he hid their bodies near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, six miles away, and later returned to set fire to them.
When he was in court, Huntley lamely claimed that both schoolgirls had died accidently.
He said Holly drowned in his bath and that he inadvertently suffocated Jessica while trying to stifle her screams.
But in 2018 he confessed to deliberately killing Jessica to stop her from raising the alarm. He continued to insist that Holly's death was an accident.
Huntley was jailed for life in 2005. Carr was jailed for perverting the course of justice and was released in 2004 with a new identity.
