Overview
- Authorities are arranging a no-ceremony cremation this week after no relatives took responsibility for Ian Huntley’s remains, according to regional reports citing unnamed sources.
- His body has stayed in a hospital morgue since he died earlier this month following a prison attack and the withdrawal of life support after almost a week in intensive care.
- Prison staff contacted his mother and biological daughter, and his mother agreed to a pauper’s funeral and to receive the ashes later, an unnamed insider told reporters.
- Under usual practice prisoners are cremated in their home town, but reporters say that will not happen here due to local hostility and that the cremation may occur quietly after hours.
- Huntley murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham in 2002 and was jailed for life in 2003, a notoriety that made him a repeated target in custody.